Discovery 4.81 features, bugs & suggestions

[Winkie]

I need your opinions, need them now. Right now I'm preparing the first beta of 4.82,

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I remember reading somewhere a discussion about looting guard weapons, so here is my 2 cents on it. Yes the guard factions should have the best weapons, so how about making them level 11? That way the guard could drop them and we could grab them and sell them for butt loads of cash, but no one but the guard could use them.
And on the subject of weapons, Stations and such should have them way out there like say level 14 or so. Since they are stationary and do not have to devote valuable real estate nor power to engines they can devote more to defense. As it is I can sit out front of a hostile station with my train, go get a soda down the hall and not worry about it. Now IMHO the larger stations should be able to take me out in four shots and a battle ship in five or six (slow moving) shots. A fighter 2 shots max, But a fighter should be able to dodge them fairly easy if they are paying attention. Yes I realize that would put a real constraint on the harvesting of NPCs.

Now here is one that should be done but most likely cannot. The larger the ship the longer it should take to slow down, after all we are talking about huge amounts of mass traveling at ungodly speeds in a vacuum. Yes I know, I am right on the verge of heresy here but the science behind this is that if you are traveling at cruise and hit your kill engine that should be almost the same thing me hitting you with a cruise disrupter, you should have no maneuvering power for a set amount of time and be at the mercy of your own inertia and mass.

Oh and here is one that the biggest ships Im sure would love! A dual range cruiseGreat for getting through all those rocks.

Lets see, other than that moving the trade lanes a little farther from the planets would be cool.
As always thank you for your time.
(Now where did I put that asbestos suite)

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