Mid-campaign submarine editing

[burnt imp]

This idea was inspired by a limitation that irked me, and the goofy shit I did in Highfleet.

When a submarine is saved to a campaign, it cannot be exited. Any edits to the core submarine file do not apply to that snapshot of it. While it does help prevent save corruption, it also locks out mid-campaign sub editing. What if there was a way around that?

In this idea, a submarine upgrade merchant would allow you to make edits to the submarine. However, unlike the regular editor, there are limitations. You must pay for installations, supply materials for hull modifications and wires for wiring, you cannot change the submarine's class, the submarine is not saved as a new thing but rather just as a campaign save-specific modification, and you cannot change stats such as health, speed, capacity, or rate.

The original is also always kept as a backup in case you forget to add an engine!

[empty escarp]

would be nice if it was editable in game like a "Open .sub from save" like Barsuk (main) and Barsuk (GameSaveName1)

Right now I have to uncompress my save, drop the .sub file into the editor, make changes, save to a mod folder, Take that .sub file drop it into the uncompressed save, recompress it, and then add the updated save to the saves folder

[burnt imp]

The idea came from Highfleet, which allows you to limitedly modify ships mid-campaign with parts and arms purchased or salvaged. The game wouldn't save modifications as a new ship design, just as a modification that you can re-create in that particular save.

[teal needle]

I dont really see a way to balance this with the current design of submarines and enemy AI

The thing that makes submarines fun to play on is intentionally giving them drawbacks

This will 100% be abusable and now be an intended gameplay feature rather than being a modding tool/"map" editor (As submarines kinda are the maps you play on in a sense)

I do think there should be more customization options

Like more things to swap