Upgradable ship ideas

[Guest]

This idea was lingering around for a while now, armor has given us much fun and grief. So why not give us some more?

So, you go into your ship dealer. Wohoo! Let's by an Avanger vhf for...300 000? lolwut?

Allright, so it turns out, currently it has a starflyer powerplant. Ohnoz. Class 1 shield. lolwut?

Lets go to the dealer. Oh, cant mount a better shield, lets buy a power core upgrade comodity.

Whee, now I can mount the shield and weapons.

I undocked and the once brick now handles like a LF!

Wait. The hell? 3 000 armor? Lets buy the upgrade. Whee, back to normal armor, but now it turns like a brick. Darn.




So basically, the idea is to start out with shait, which is open to costum settings depending on your fighting style, rather than get the biggest pewpew weapons and ding ding armor.

There are flaws, however, like, you can still mount missiles on a vhf with lf handling, but its just one of those quick ideas.

[Weedalot]

saw at east one post like that already, as i said there i must say its a good idea. can remember what was the outcome of that other post.

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[Guest]

Probably a negative one, since the balancing on such will be terrorish. For example mounting a titan equivalent powerplant on a starflyer.

[tansytansey]

It's a good idea and all, but I don't think it's well suited to Freelancer. The size of ships also counts a lot towards balance. Can you imagine a Liberator with massive armour? Or no armour and flying at blinding fast speed. We already have different fighter classes for each purpose, LF, HF and VHF. I'd imagine everyone would be flying LFs for their small hit box, with massive armour and power supply.

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[Guest]

upgrades take up cargo, Ashes, You wouldnt be able to have both on small ships.

[Bear]

It's a good idea and all, but I don't think it's well suited to Freelancer. The size of ships also counts a lot towards balance. Can you imagine a Liberator with massive armour? Or no armour and flying at blinding fast speed. We already have different fighter classes for each purpose, LF, HF and VHF. I'd imagine everyone would be flying LFs for their small hit box, with massive armour and power supply.

agreed

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[11of10]

Well, I'd say it's a wee bit stretching it. Maybe in the 31st century they can make a modular space superiority fighter, maybe not, it just doesn't seem right to make it with that interchangeable parts. Maybe if you did it in a way that the upgrades eat up a lot of cargo space, and used that to limit the possible power of the ship? In example: Starflier can't get too big of a powercore or it wouldn't have any space left for anything but it's basic hull and shield, and no guns! Erm... is that even possible?

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[jenya]

the idea sounds interesting...

I'll wait and see how it develops

[tyro]

huge problems with balance.

anyway I love this idea much.

[NerdRage]

When you said 'pimp your sabre' i thought

Paintjob

For the sake of appearence, is it possible to get different engine tints and hull coulorings (like a blue starflea or a Pirate transport with green cargo pods and wing paints)

oh! and add fully sick neon! and a sick sound system!

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