Design my own ship...

[vampyre]

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[vampyre]

[qdon't author="whitegauntlet" source="/post/48726/thread" timestamp="1371055186"]Cadar flagship? Is that one of the features missing from the Apple version? Us iOS cavemen, I tell you....

I ink that the original idea on this threads was good one.

But, to make sure that we all don't make super-ships, I believe that there should be a price in credits that increases exponentially.[/quote]


Way back in the early days there was a game called Cosmic Ballance that let the players pick one of 5 hull sizes and then fill that hull with everything they could to wreak havoc upon their enemy.

Designs could be saved an uploaded into a larger strategy game that envoled fleets. For it's time it was a great game

Each hull size has set number spaces. These spaces are used for everything from power, shielding, armor, crew, and everything else. Money is not the determining factor in construction, it's the limited spaces available for the hull type used.

Another way to look at self designed ships is the way they did it in the Mech Warrior games. Hull sizes and hard points were used. This gave the mechs in game a wide range of customination making them very versital.(sorry my spell checker has stopped working)

I don't expect to see this incorperated into the game. It is full of all kinds of ships. There are mods available for the ships so I'm happy.

[slayernz]

Star Traders 2. That is the future game that will have more flexible ship design (albeit there will still be some strong balancing influences at play) - such as
"Oh, you want a 50 hull ship to have 120 engines, 100 sails, 52 guns, 188 torp tubes - oh, and 200 cargo? Then you'll be burning 8 WF in the green, receive a 400% encounter penalty, 800% chance of problems during takeoff/landing, and a 1283% increase in the likelihood you won't be able to find things like your keys you put down."