Lone Wolf Space Craft

[plain venture]

I'm roughly 250 hours into Marauders and this post is pre Ace update so anything could happen,

So I have played a lot and almost 50% of that I have been in space and maybe 150 hours Solo and Manoeuvring/Returning fire is incredibly difficult in most scenarios, Even in the smaller ships Like the Scout albeit the best ship currently it will certainly not be once Ace hits which then got me thinking about solo ships.

With each ship currently its 'bigger the better' and rocket artillery every time. With two competent players (pilot and Gunner) every solo player immediately is at a disadvantage, in a bigger craft as a solo you cannot evade fire and return without stopping and doing the ol circle dance and if you are in a rust bucket/Scout you can either fight or run but even then if you run you have to hope the enemy gunner is having a bad day.

So solo ships could be more akin to a fighter jet, instead of trading off speed for armour or visa vi it could be a one man craft which is fast and has weapon systems, you cannot pod out or breach other ships but you can still dock, They could even be used by AI you could have fighter patrols from any of the factions.

Personally i think it would really give some variety to the space combat and will certainly give solo players something they will want to return for during a raid currently i just rust bucket in and escape pod out, I love how tense it is when you have full loot and you need to get back to your ship but their is every marauder and his dog in between.

Thanks for reading.

[deep sigil]

I feel like there should be more a variety in ship armaments. There's already slots for special armor and engines but there's nothing to craft for it. It would be nice if you could craft components for you ship besides the turrets so you can customize them more. It also doesn't make any cense that the heavy frigate is faster and more maneuverable then the interceptor. I also feel like there should a be a ship trader added into the games set aside from the regular ones so it doesn't rotate out. Being able to buy a ship and use it would help get more ship variety into the game instead of just having rustbuckets everywhere. I also don't understand the long craft times for the ships and turrets. There's no reason it should take 2.5 minutes to make a ship to use in pre lobby especially since you cant cancel crafting anyways.

[jolly bear]

disagree with this, as it is on the same level as giving solo players an more op weapon inside the raid. i play solo mainly, but sometimes play with my friends who are fairly new to the game. this suggestion just encourages me to want to go solo more often and i think is unhealthy for the game

also if i am in a raid and everyone happens to be solo in one of these ships and there is no podding or breaching that would just make the space part of the raid boring and uninteresting

[mellow bridge]

I've also think about that for space variety, some kind of great-great children of spitfire would be lovely for a solo/2 crew small ship, even with low health, crappy gun and no pod option