Button-triggered disconnector

[toxic token]

Press a button to make a module explode (could be reconnectable but that would be hard to code ig)

[runic grove]

me when one of my crewmen don't stomp out their cigar before leaving the ammo store they were supposed to be manning

[sly dust]

That could actually be an interesting method of damage control... Jettisoning ammo stores or suchlike before they explode

[hollow ocean]

i could see this being useful for many situations. maybe you could have a giant carrier that holds a bunch of smaller ships and lets them go when need be?

[toxic token]

ikr

[split shoal]

be good if it worked like a docking thing you could connect and disconnect them

this would add heaps to the game

[jolly sorrel]

iirc something the dev said he didn't want to be a thing

[toxic token]

nah he just said it would be a pain to code

cuz all the weight calcs an stuff

[jolly sorrel]

I mean it's already in the game though wdym?

Like if a part of a ship falls off it does those calcs anyways

[toxic token]

yeah but then that+combined lift/weigth, supply stuff, and docking is still pretty hard to code (he said)

[jolly sorrel]

Oh you mean docking?

Disconnection would definitely be possible docking is a bit weirder

[toxic token]

yeah

[tiny gate]

The big reason this doesn't exist is that it can be exploited to drop heavy things on the enemy.

[split shoal]

👍

[narrow aspen]

[jolly sorrel]

However

Kinetic bombs already exist

[toxic token]

also downwards ramming already exists

[narrow aspen]

yes, but it's not quite the same as pinning down multiple ships by dropping grand keels/grand rams onto them

[thick mural]

yeah

it would lead to some bad cheese I think

[runic grove]

Ramming cheese strats are already annoying and not very fun

[toxic token]

Idk, maybe make sum sorta weight limit, but since supply update ship carriers are actually practical so this would actually be pretty useful

[thick mural]

they're not really cheese strats

there's nothing cheese about ramming

it's just ramming

[narrow aspen]

I mean detachable ships wouldn't be very practical
what makes carriers practical is not needing ammo and thus being able to have their planes continuously shoot as long as they don't get shot down and the carrier's decks still exist

if you make individual ships that break away from a larger one, why not make the individual ones entire, independent ships?

[opal blaze]

but how would the AI use it

[narrow aspen]

also that issue, yeah

[toxic token]

,in that 1 fleet with ship carriers and supply ships, gets to point and deploys ships, and small ships sweep out to get towns, before regrouping fmr city

I mean if not adding it make it moddable into the game