New ship plans

[Bass_masta992]

The catch of Freelancer is ships in space. New ships for factions are made all the time, most fitting to a mold made by preexisting ships. Lets break that open.

Post ideas of new types of ships, Whether that is a new class, new 'abilities' of ships. Don't just say "More firepower" or "Better range" etc. etc. Make something that is actually different. CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM ONLY, IF AN IDEA HAS BEEN PROVEN IMPOSSIBLE, SAY SO, BUT DON'T PUT DOWN SOMEONE ELSE'S IDEA. Build off of others, negativity only hurts progression.

I'll start. War frigates was an idea brought up before by a number of people in the past. The idea in my head for them was a transport sized vessel, possibly undertaking the class 6 weapon role. I use the Valkyrie frigate from Starcraft as an example. The Startcraft Valkyrie is a terran ship that fires a large volley of anti air missiles in bursts, doing very large 'shotgun' damage, high damage very quick, and is especially deadly in groups. That style of gun could easily be incorporated into Freelancer. Guns could be made with a reasonably high damage, with a high refire, moderate/high speed, but very drawing energy drain.

If you could make a 'burst fire' script for a gun, causing it to fire multiple shots per activation, with a drawn out reload rate after that, you could make a high powered burst that would be great against fighters/bombers, and possibly have effectiveness against larger ships in close range. If it were possible to make a weapon have a wider aim reticule, that would be nice to create an area of effect, making it a more fighter capable weapon.

The frigate would not so much be ship original, it could take on a different type of guns for a different type of role. Another weapon could be 'dumbfire' missiels, An AoE missile with decent damage that only flies straight. Would be good for anti capital work. A fighter-able version could be made, just lower damage dumbfire missile with a higher refire rate. Possibly incorperate a detonation range for dumbfire missiles, to act as sort of a moving mine.

Post your own ideas, I want to see some original stuff here.

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