OCP 209 - Alternate High Stresspoint Mount arm fixtures.

[misty shuttle]

Give the ship a unique pair of arms, standard gripping arm but have the second arm being a drill/grinder arm. as two grabber arms seems inefficient, particularly with how hard a time they have in feeding resources into the cargo hold.

Another idea would be the option to replace the the cargo barrel with a repair point and change the grabber arms to repairs. Ships in the belt could send out SOS calls and the player could move in, repair their ships for a fee, either energy credits or resources and depending on the notoriety of the player, he could get bonus payments if he's on good terms withe the faction.

I would also recommend adjusting the MPU so that the processing section is at a more obtuse angle as getting ore into it very finicky.

[median dirge]

I really like this suggestion because I like the idea of the crab ship, but it doesnt really work well
the ocp might just need an upgrade in general
what I would like to see is not just having the titan be the meta ship, and maybe bump up the ocp to be a reasonable choice for a ship as well.
but that might just be me

[full star]

Hm. Grinder, or cutter arm seems like a fun thing.

A hybrid of ARM and PD of sorts - arm, but only homes on stuff PD would target, and inflicts either grinder kind of mechanical damage or fires a short range torch to vape stuff.

[median dirge]

also, it would be nice to just fly sideways so my entire cargo bay doesnt shift when I open it. I know there is an option for this in tuning, but your low stress hardpoints are on the front, so that might make it anoying to use

[scenic cargo]

might be necroing or not, but a magnet arm (similar to junkyard cranes irl) could potentially be useful

Capable of very easily grabbing ores, wrecks and lifepods but is both more expensive and harder to maintain than the standard arm

i don't remember if magnets cause issues with electronics or not but if they do, could be fun to experiment with

[sand sand]

not all ores we have are magnetic so it would only be able to grab some ores and no ringroids.

[full star]

Technically the regular arm is a magnet arm because it actually attracts stuff it picks if it's not directly on-target.

[scenic cargo]

i must not be attractive then since it ain't picking me up : (

[median dirge]

with older electronics, I think magnets had the ability to erase data?
for realism's sake, It can't pick everything up either

[median dirge]

perhaps the magnet arm could have a far superior magnet

[scenic cargo]

👀 Cothon seems pretty old, no?

[median dirge]

well, I mean like floppy disc old

[scenic cargo]

sounding more and more like a Cothon

[median dirge]

I don't really know how old the Cothon is

it would be funny to rub a magnet against someone's cothon and then they have to fly on manual for the rest of the time

[grave hearth]

They corrupt data on magnetic media, like floppy discs or HDD platters. Or magnetic tape, which is still used as archive backups.