Faction Ship Lines

[sovereign]

The spikes on the mines are a real thing. Land mines aren't the best comparison here, what you may be interested in are naval mines:



See those spikes? Instead of proximity sensors (which are doable with modern technology, magnets are amazing) contact spikes work just fine (and are a whole lot cheaper while we're at it). A ship hits the incredibly fragile spikes and breaks them, which triggers the mine to go off. The spikey mines work just fine, larger spikes make sense since you need to catch space superiority fighters rather than gigantic floating bricks.

Nomad mines do look pretty silly though.



Moving right along, lots of mods have cool ships. We have some of the coolest. Neat. We've got plenty (and plenty we don't need), and while here and there another ship or a replacement woudln't hurt, we can achieve more awesomeness faster by diverting efforts elsewhere. Xing mentioned modeling asteroids, please do. There's like seven of them coded into FL, plus another dozen for zone spawn asteroids. Moar asteroids plox!

More commodity bins, cargo pods, base components... all of this stuff would be a fantastic addition to Discovery. We already have the best ships by most standards. No particular need to further embellish that, and an uninspired concept "just to give them a ship" detracts from it. Lets go for the best everything else too.



Mayhaps start with gun models? There's precedent for every faction to have their own, so no questions about arr pee there. If you're going to force yourself to make anything, don't make it a ship. Just follow your inspiration and it will turn out nicely.

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