Just throwing ideas out there. Is it possible for Alex to get fighter/bomber/drone LPCs to spawn multiple wings from one hanger slot? Would it be possible to make it adjustable in game? So each LPC has a min/max and the player can choose a number from min to max using +/- buttons next to the hanger slot. The higher the number the more penalties to rearming/crew required/supplies needed/etc, but you can burst the enemy down with more small crafts.
So if I modified the Talon Interceptor Wing LPC it would spawn 5 wings of 4 fighters each for a grand total of 20 fighters using one hanger slot. Of course it's gonna cost 5x more crew, supplies, and CR to recover fully.
Anyways the point is I want my computer to overload with fighters/bombers/drones swarming everywhere.
Second idea... is it possible for some badass animator to make fighters do flips and ***? Like barrel rolls? Maybe it actually has a function like giving a dodge bonus or temp invulnerability while looking cool.
Idea three. Pilot promotions. After a few space battles there's a chance that some Talon pilot actually survives enough times to be qualified as a experienced pilot. This could tie in with my first idea and a more experienced pilot could act like a squad leader allowing more wings to watch his/her flank. They can level up like officers and pick Pilot skills. Some of which could have cool animations like my second idea.
Stealing ideas from 1C's Star Wolves series they could get active special abilities that they will automatically use when the right situation calls for it. Missiles heading their way? If the pilot has the flares ability then the small craft/assisting wings will fire off personally mounted flares.
Or the pilot has an alpha strike ability that increases fire rate for all weapons on the craft being piloted by 20-40% for 4 seconds with a CD of 30 seconds.
Stealing from Star Fox we could have a tiny window open up where the pilot's sprite is shown and a small dialogue oozing overconfidence! Said overconfident Talon pilot dies right away.
Feeling ambitious? Animate the pilots portrait!
This will make me take recovery shuttles. Otherwise that mod is god damn useless.