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jupjupy

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Epic Scale Mod
« on: November 02, 2014, 06:51:39 AM »

Had a crazy idea (literally the night before my exam, whats up with me?), but how would a crazily epic scale mod sound to you guys?

What I was thinking was: Scale down everything to the point that current capital ships (e.g the Paragon, the Onslaught) are 'Frigate' class, and are equivalently frigate sized in-game. Then you'd have your fighters, which would be like, squadrons of Hammerheads or Sunders, lone Eagles and such. Of course, remove most small and medium mounts on ships, letting the large mounts become the small mount equivalent.

And then you'd really get into the modding part, where your destoyers and onwards would be these truly massive vessels (in relative terms), where you'd have like 10+ storm needlers on a broadside, gigantic missile batteries capable of nuking squadrons of Paragons to oblivion, etc. Your freighters would be able to haul entire cities from planet to planet, crewing in the thousands (not really, should probably scale the numbers down on everything, like crew, health, supplies/day, etc).

Just wanted to hear some thoughts.
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Re: Epic Scale Mod
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2014, 07:57:01 AM »

Meh on the enormous ships, at least for vanilla Starsector, but I like the idea of fielding squadrons of ships instead of individual ships. Say 3 capital ships per Capital squadron and work your way down from there. Have a general refit screen where you create variants, and then in the squadron's refit screen you choose which variant you want each ship to be.

There would be so many fighters in a fighter squadron :P

Maybe just have a generic "Cruiser Squadron", and then pick from your inventory of cruisers (Close Support Falcon, Fortified Heron, Assault Eagle, whatever). So you create ship variants, get the ships you want, change them to the variants you want, and then put them in the squadron.

Heh, allow ships one size smaller in a slot, so have a Cruiser Squadron with one cruiser and a few destroyers as escorts.
« Last Edit: November 02, 2014, 08:01:37 AM by HartLord »
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Re: Epic Scale Mod
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2014, 08:26:59 AM »

There was an idea like that that floated around for a bit, never panned out though:
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=4264.msg125263#msg125263
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