Player Features and Ideas Discussion

If you look at modern day destroyers or aircraft carriers, they host an array of different sized weapons depending on the threat that is approaching. Aircraft... Missiles (different types), and Guns 20mm

Just got me thinking. I know it does not make sense to mix high slots with a mix of large and medium weapons or medium and small. Your total DPS would suck. However it might be nice to have an option of adding an "defense perimeter" medium module option.

This would include adding a number (TBD) of smaller turrets that act like drones and will fire on what ever aggresses, that have a close range (10-5k ish?? depending if a medium or small) The exact amount of damage would have to be tweaked so they don't slaughter anything too quickly, however in conjunction with drones would be devastating. Or maybe this will only be available on ships that don't have drones...?

A drawback to the module would be a reduction to shields/armor. Making the ship a bigger glass cannon.

Details would be tweaked some, so there is a balance... but just thinking that a huge Megathron has a ton of real estate on the outside and a few small/medium blasters would be nice to help swat flies.

Just a thought to add a new dimension to the game.

This has been deliberately avoided since the beginning for gameplay reasons. I agree with this, and don't want it implemented in game. It would make balancing ships of various sizes nearly impossible.

Thanks for the comments!



I think this would be that they would effect smaller ships some. Not as well as actual small turrets. But if a small ship came in and started orbiting at 2k scramming a bigger ship, it would take some damage, perhaps enough so it has to brake off after a small amount of time the larger ships's drones are attacking perhaps another ship.

I have heard that it has been avoided in the past. It is a balancing act, a ying to the yang, not one ship does everything well. And I agree it would have to be countered so that it would NOT be a slaughter for any small ship that gets in rage like a Death Blossom from Last starfighter. Maybe it has an activation period of 1 minute with a recharge time of 5 minutes? Good when the stuff hits the fan, but hopefully the stuff does not last long.

While the OP idea is interesting, it would inevitably completely alter the current balance of the game, with unforeseeable consequences.
If this had been implemented in the original game design, by now a balance would have been achieved,
However introducing it now would require rebalancing virtually every ship and module in the game,
Whilst I fully understand and agree with the logic and sentiment, unfortunately it would be a bad idea to implement at this time,
Sorry about that. It would be nice for large ships to have a good defence against small ships without affecting their DPS, but just too much time would be needed to implement it well, and we just need to find tactics to achieve the same goal.

so what you're saying is you could have support weapons that have better range than your main weapon? (thinking of blaster boats here) it'd also make drones almost worthless as they'd just get popped every time they went near a ship unless you made the dps of them so low that they didn't do too much damage to drones at which point they become worthless

We already have this. It's called drones. Train them.

That's not defensive fire FROM the Chimera... that's autocannon fire being directed AT the Chimera.