Fuel for thought...

[marauder]

If we do go for capships using H-fuel, might be a good way to stop everyone who comes on getting one ASAP, then theres going to be a problem.

For every unit of H-fuel used the game would have to give you a unit of toxic waste.

To represent the fuel usage, the only problem with this that I can see is people in BS's buying cheap H-fuel, running down to rhienland and selling the toxic waste, basically making a profit from flying around doing nothing.

Perhaps we need to go another route.

How about making the inferno, Battle razor, missile, flak and mortar turrets take up cargo space, which would represent the capacitors used to charge the weapon or the ammo it needs to fire.

So the more 'special' turrets you mount, the less cargo space you have.

Say 25 units for the gunboat, 50 for the cruiser and 100 for the BS versions.

Then have double that for the mortars, due to their higher energy usage and damage. eg: 100 for the light mortar, 200 for the mortar and 300/400 for the heavy mortar.

That way people who have capships equipped with the 'special' weapons have a disadvantage to those who use the 'normal' turrets.

The cargo hold of capships would mean you can still do a missile or flak cruiser/frigate/BS, you just won't have alot of cargo space because of the muntion stockpiles for those turrets.