Dropships, Shuttles, and Tram Segments | Cosmoteer | Page 1

wooden orchid Oct 11, 2022, 6:33 PM

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Dropships and shuttles would be quite useful for transporting more crew and resources at the same time to and from other ships and stations.

Dropships
Dropships could also be used as boarding craft, with specialized versions having an explosive charge or ram on the front to board enemy ships or stations forcibly

Dropships would require a hangar to dock on large enough ships to support them. These hangars can either be side mounted with the mouth of the hangar facing open space or roof mounted with the dropship flying over and dropping into your ship.

An advantage to having your dropship on the side would be faster deployment times while having the roof hangar would allow for more defences.

Dropships can be armed as well. These armaments could include smaller missiles or a auto cannon similar to PD, mostly for destroying other dropships or very small craft it may encounter.

Each hangar would hold a single dropship as well as fuel tanks, and ordinance for them.

Shuttles
Shuttles are similar to dropships but smaller. They could also act as escape craft in the event of abandoning your ship. These are too small to be armed though.

Shuttles would have a similar hangar to the dropship but can only be launched from a side facing hangar.

Each hangar would hold 2 shuttles and fuel tanks for the shuttles.

Fuel for these would just be batteries to power the hangars while the small craft themselves would be powered by a special fuel perhaps.

Trams
Tram segments would be like the moving walkways used for accelerating crew around your ship, however tram systems will be beneficial for transporting more at the same time and stop crew clumping.

They would be powered by a rail system having power deposited into an end segment at the end of the tram line.

(Tram design made by @compact stone )

(shuttle docking. Green ship for shuttle concept)

spare rampart Oct 11, 2022, 6:42 PM

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I’m down for another way to deliver cargo to other ships

stoic badge Oct 11, 2022, 6:48 PM

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this gave me the dumb idea of space forklifts

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excellent

frail slate Oct 11, 2022, 9:56 PM

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I really like the idea of Shuttles, definitely could be very useful.

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I feel like, you could technically do this once docking is implemented.

silent flower Oct 15, 2022, 6:26 PM

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I agree with Runic the crew can be expensive and the ability to save them would help tons for larger ships

daring obsidian Oct 15, 2022, 6:35 PM

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For the trams system, are you only thinking about having crew move around? I could see some trail system, not unlike what in modern battleship, used to carry ammo or resource for one station to another station.

daring obsidian Oct 15, 2022, 6:36 PM

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silent flower I agree with Runic the crew can be expensive and the ability to save them would ...

If we talk about saving crew, would Escape pod also be a good idea?

balmy iris Oct 15, 2022, 6:47 PM

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Hope we get this with the eventual addition of fighters , tiny cargo bays would be a nice part for them to have access to

silent flower Oct 15, 2022, 6:50 PM

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daring obsidian If we talk about saving crew, would Escape pod also be a good idea?

I think this is the idea behind the shuttles

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although another good idea is a mining shuttle for a cargo ship

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perhaps works like the drop ship but 4-6 crew a small storage bag and oxygen

daring obsidian Oct 15, 2022, 11:16 PM

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we could actually solve that with maybe 1 or 2 other part. Docking port? People could build their own shuttles and dock them on mothership^?

silent flower Oct 16, 2022, 12:08 AM

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he’s talking about functioning craft 2-4 in size

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I think

daring obsidian Oct 16, 2022, 7:25 PM

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silent flower he’s talking about functioning craft 2-4 in size

i know in the demo time, there was a mod that included Fighter part. basically 1/2 the size of the standard small parts. but i feel like that would require more implementation... maybe a major update one day?

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