More ships for roleplay over combat?

[elgeeko]

I saw an idea for 'ironman style suits' somewhere, and it set me thinking that there could be a super-bulky exo-suit style ship with no cruise engines, a unique very fast thruster, one gun slot that can only mount a unique ultra-tiny mining laser, and immunity to radiation.

It might also serve for good 'repair' RP or even as a 'construction worker' at a shipyard.

Perhaps another barge-style ship thats designed to resemble a mobile space-borne oil rig, except its made for gas mining. (I'm thinking gas miner model meets FT Bush style model)

The KS line are not 100% RP-only ships, but being designed to be survey ships geared for durability they are fun to design to be unconventional (In the sense that they don't look as if they were made for combat)

I know there were rumblings here and there indicating player-to-player docking might exist in a future version of the mod, and that brings up all kinds of potential for RP geared ships or ships designed to be very advantageous to trade/mining/combat but only if they co-operate with large groups of other players.

I personally would like to see a few more passenger oriented ships that look like they're designed to ferry people from one in-house planet to another.

It might be fun to see some other type of exploration ship too, extra-extra durable, possessing appreciable armaments, but far fewer than a ship of its size normally would.

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