Discovery 4.81 features, bugs & suggestions

[Igiss]

As for radiation... what's the problem? What items get damaged?

Now, Dab's classification of ships. It does sound interesting, but I'll barely be able to adopt the suggestion as it is. First of all, the ship types will still be Battleship-Cruiser-Dreadnought, nothing more. All other types will not be mentioned anywhere, even infocards have no place for that.

About the division itself. As we all know, power of a ship depends on few most important things. First is attack power, that's number of turrets and their location. Second is defense, and it depends mainly on hit points. Make a battleship with more hp and turrets, and everyone will get it. Low agility? Either not low enough for players to consider, or too low so that you won't be able to fix your ship after spinning. Larger ship -> more spinning, so making them alot less agile will make them non flyable.

Currently there are differences between different cruisers, gunboats and battleships. But I intend to keep them more or less balanced if fighting each other.

Proceeding to other suggestions. Station turrets. I will increase power for some of them, but not for all. Remember about new players. You can say that battleship patrols also affect new players, but it's easy to escape a patrol... as for stations, it's not as easy. Since trade lanes and stations use the same turret types, travelling though hostile space would become a journey with no ending.

Korrd said something about making all houses equally levelled, like Rheinland or possibly even higher. I know it may sound good, and I know it was implemented in several mods, but it would ruin Discovery concept from start to end. Houses may have high-level weapons and ships for players to buy, but NPCs will stay as they are now.

Reputation requirements for ships... that's complicated too, since in vanilla you purchase ships regardless of your rep. If you have nothing against, I may introduce neutral rep requirement (0) for buying capital ships, but transports and smaller ships... I don't think we are ready for that. Waiting for your opinions on this particular matter.