Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hi folks,

Just sharing an idea that came out of my twisted mind :

The possibility to upgrade and personalize some of your ships. These upgrades would be ship dependent (not ship class dependent, only this precise ship), giving some kind of flagship-like feeling

2 new skills associated :
Ship upgrade (x?) : each level allows 1 ship to be upgraded
Ship engineering (x?) : every 2 levels allows 1 upgrade on a ship (1 at level 1, 2 at level 3, 3 at level 5)

What would be the upgrades available ?
I thought of enabling all characteristics of the modules the ship can fit, range would be 1/4 of a t1 module at level 5 (of course upgrades have levels, would not be fun otherwise). That's not much, but far enough to take care of these particular ships. And of course, not possible to upgrade 3 times the same characteristic.

How to upgrade a ship ?
2 parts :
-ship : you declare 1 ship (or more according to the skill) as flagship. Just like a skill, its level increases with time and defines the max level upgrade you can install. The bigger the ship, the longer it takes to reach the next level.
-research : to apply an upgrade, you need to research the appropriate science categories (actually we could use datacores for that, I think this really fits, but it's possible to use something alike if we don't want to touch this economy part.

Comments are welcome !
Imariel

Counterpoint: Why?