💡 What is motivating this suggestion?
Ships are pretty bland and theres not much customization...
💡 What is your proposal?
Upgrading engine and changing guns was removed, but how about we add things like:
Jukebox music for listening and for preventing people from hearing footsteps near it, oil barrels, mounted lmg's, more storage, entry points for friendly breach pods coming back to the ship so they dont lose health, workbenches to allow you adding attachments to your guns in your ship, salvage upgrades like ability to get 2 crates, hiring NPC security personnel to guard your ship and roam it (maybe we could give them our weapons and equip them?)
💡 Exactly and specifically, what should be changed and how?
Add more customization and some of the ideas mentioned here or in the comments (if the post gets any), some could be purchasable while others even craftable
#Customizable ships and upgrades
sudden hedge
robust gorge
The devs should definitely reintroduce ship parts and expand upon them, like modded ship weapons, engines, hulls, wings, skins/sprays etc. They can be rare salvage finds or depot spawns.
A few other ideas which would help ship combat and make it more interesting:
Remove tap repairing (require the ship must heal up to X% before specific parts become functional again).
Significantly increase all ships armour (to add some longevity to combat).
Maps centered around ship combat.
Deployable ship defenses (like the capital ship POI).
Directional boost maneuvers for ships (e.g. 0.5-1 second boost, recharge 5 seconds).
Rangefinder for the turret cross hair and first person shooting for the turret.
fleet shore
The devs should definitely reintroduce ship parts and expand upon them, like mod...
i remember in early access they had weapon ship parts, what happened to them?
odd lagoon
i remember in early access they had weapon ship parts, what happened to them?
Got removed when the U.A.update dropped in favor of the ship shop.
robust gorge
yeah, they said in their recent dev blog that they don't want ship pvp to detract from the game which is unfortunate as it has tons of potential to be fun, hopefully they change their mind
another idea which I think would be interesting is limited fuel, ammo and collision damage on ships but I can see people finding it annoying
trim fern
There must be a better approach to ships. TBH, I only use the ship shop to buy capital ships for their storage then run the rustbucket. #1083822546832609310
robust gorge
@vital osprey hopefully some ideas you can pass on