MoreChainguns!
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This evening, after I had killed Bottan, I figured I might as well salvage his corpse. But, my salvaging ship was a ways away. "No problem", I thought, docking the wreck to my ship and queuing up both ships' travel commands. However, once they had arrived (I was building a new ship in the meantime), the wreck was gone! Not only that, the three initial Cavalier/Commune/Family missions (Drug Deal, Weapons Delivery, Smuggling Alcohol) had spontaneously moved about 15 sectors further towards the core than they had been originally.
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At the moment, pressing F5 and F6 in the Main Menu only cycles through AI-generated designs. However, I propose that the game be allowed to load ships from your own saved files.
Add another hotkey (F10?) to mark a design as 'not fit for display' if it comes up in the Main Menu and you don't like it. You can unmark it as such through the Saved Designs Menu.
Thoughts?
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So, I was doing a ton of mining missions, and I thought it would be really nice if you could...
Assign one escort to multiple miners / freighters. This would mean that you could send them out on really long mining missions knowing that while you were losing a combat ship for that period, you were also getting your money's worth in ambush reduction chance for more than one chance.
How would you do this? Well, when sending a single miner on a mission, the 'Escort' ships are split into two tabs: Miners and Fighters. You can assign only one (maybe 2) Fighters to your mining mission, but you can assign as many Miners as you want.
To balance this, I suppose the base ambush chance would go up for each miner you added to the mission.
Whaddya think?
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I agree heartily with both of the inventory management aspects of this, but torpedoes? No.
Torpedoes are an incredibly powerful weapon that should only be available as a drop.
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I was planning out my whole fleet, when I noticed something:
If I wanted to get a cinematic shot of the whole fleet jumping into a sector at once, it would be staggered, since I'd have to give individual orders to each to jump.So, here's my proposal:
In the Galaxy Map, add the ability to 'group' ships into 'Taskforces'. Or just call them Fleets (though that could cause confusion). You can name these fleets, and they take the form of a dropdown menu.
You can left click and then give orders to this dropdown menu as if it were a ship, and it will distribute those orders to all ships in the fleet. A coordinated jump will only work if every one of the ships has their own captain.
This would make it much nicer to manage big fleets.
Lemme know if there's a feature which accomplishes this 'give orders to many ships at once' already in-game. I know you can box select ships in the Strategic Map, but for maneuvering fleets and issuing mining orders to mining fleets, I sometimes want to be able to do it in one click.
Thoughts?
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28 minutes ago, AvorionCraft said:
You probably have a point on the titan.
I like to throw ideas around. =p
If you were to suggest these sorts of specializations, I think that they should either consume a bunch of power or nerf the ship in other ways, reflecting the fact that any sort of HQ unit is never really intended to do the heavy lifting.
A 'juggernaut' style specialization would be a partial exception to this.
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This is exactly what the title says. If I can spend literally infinite money and resources that I don't have, and also literally duplicate turrets, why is there still a requirement for me to have system upgrades? At the very least, there should be an option for Creative by which that restriction can be turned off, and you can add as many turrets as you want.
It would make it so much easier, because you don't have to keep jumping around into sectors with Equipment Docks (which take at best 5-10 minutes to load due to stations, ships & asteroids) and buying out their entire stock.
I see no downside to this whatsoever, especially if it was made optional.
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Love these suggestions! Going through an Ancient Gate was always more guesswork than anything for me.
'Specialization Tab' probably won't fly, or if it did its buffs would be reduced. I'm confused how 'Titan' would be different from just installing, say, a Hull Polarizer and removing an Engine Upgrade to balance out the energy usage or to save a slot.
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Hey!
I was building a ship yesterday, and it was only after I spent an hour and a half on an incredibly detailed internal docking bay that I realized that my 'mothership' idea for miners would only work if I cut a massive hole in the bottom of my ship, or replaced every single bottom block with holograms. This made the whole thing look incredibly unsightly, and the only reason that it's like that is because the game thinks that I need a specific space for a tractor beam to work, when these miners are small and maneuverable enough to literally dock without tractor beams at all! If there was an option to resize the tractor beam zone, that would allow SO much more creativity in builds.
Please, please remove the tractor beam box from docks.
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Hey!
So, you may be thinking, 'Decoration? Why the heck do we need more objects?' or something. I entirely agree. Anything a player in Avorion wants to have on their ship, from a gantry crane to radar, they can sculpt out of blank hull. Simple. However, that is not what I'm talking about. I only chose the title 'decoration' because my suggestions fall under that category.
Suggestions:
- Make holograms programmable, with sliders for transparency / opaqueness and an option to set a keybind to 'Toggle Holograms' outside Build Mode.
- Add a new type of block, the 'Spinner', which consumes about 50W of energy and spins at a set rate. It must be directly controlled or set to a specific spin speed. The addition of this block will allow players to make spinning radars, strobe lights and much, much more.
- Add a new type of block, the 'Hinge' which consumes about 50W of energy, and moves within its range of motion. It's programmable to perform certain movements in sequence, or loop one movement. This would allow players (and the AI) to add things like hangar bay doors, robotic arms, wings to fanciful craft, and the like.
Now, the first thing I thought was ''Of course, people will exploit this in building ships that can hinge on their own axes." The easiest way to avert that from happening is to restrict what kind of blocks can be fitted to the end of a Spinner or Hinge; essentially, only non-functional blocks. So, that means no weapons, no engines, no generators, no gyros, no thrusters. One thing you can add, however, is Spinners/Hinges on the end of other Spinners/Hinges. This would allow multi-jointed movement to things like robotic arms. The last exception is docks. They can be moved in any way you please, facilitating the reposition of ships that didn't dock in the position you wanted them to.
I called this the Decoration Update because while these Spinners/Hinges would not add much function to the game, imagine how cool it would be to pull into a station and see a bunch of robotic arms moving cargo crates around! Or flying past a ship /HQ with an actual spinning radar array!
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I think that it would work by the 'Keep Distance' button in Orders having a dropdown where you can select either 'From Closest Enemy', 'Outside Enemy/Self Gun Range', and 'Outside Torpedo Range'.
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I assume you mean having a bunch of small, AI 'vessels' that are magnetically drawn towards ships that pass within a certain range, right? Maybe having the damage equivalent to 5-ish torpedoes of a level relative to the sector's closeness to the Center?
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Do you mean a mode where you essentially place ghosted blocks but they only take form when you want them to?
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Good God, it's so frustrating to have the tiny dot of a reticle centered on an enemy ship, and yet my battery of cannon turrets all miss. It would be so helpful to have some markers on either side so that 'leading' would be easier.
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2 hours ago, AvorionCraft said:
There's a problem with Captains presently.
If they're on a trade mission and they get ambushed by pirates, they will sit there.
Not only will THEY sit there, their escorts seem to just be sitting there as well.
Unless this is resolved---Captains need to be programmed to jump to a sector over with escorts, or fight back. Zoning into a sector to find your ship's shields at 30% and not a single pirate has taken a hit is unacceptable when your ship has 10x the pirates individual firepower.
With economy spam and chat there's no guarantee that we can know if a ship is under an attack.
Alternative: a notification mid-top-left that shows a flashing angry red "you have a ship under attack" light/icon.
A low-tech fix for not knowing that your ship is under attack is choosing the 'Fleet' chat tab. This cancels out economy notifications. If there is one. I'm not sure, exactly, but...
Besides that, the problem with AI escorts has always been in Avorion. I think it has something to do with the game not mapping out a sector as a 3D space and conduct a battle of ships within it, but simply regarding each ship as an integer of their Omicron. Again, not sure exactly, because my miners are never escorted, and in the version I'm in setting escorts to 'Patrol Sector' still works.
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3 hours ago, AvorionCraft said:
Having a toggle to select specific items would be amazing.
Many items when you search for something will come up with many items that don't share much except a simple word search.
A Type search would be good.
"Salvage Turret"
"Chaingun Turret"
"Defensive Turret"
The inventory search has always been lacking, because although you can find turrets, you have to remember whether they were Double-or-Triple-barreled before remembering their name. This is, obviously, impossible, meaning that you can really only search one item by one. A simple toggle window for types of turrets would definitely be very helpful.
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23 hours ago, AvorionCraft said:
I would back this suggestion for occupied systems---not systems that are in territory where the faction is not physically present.
Seconded.
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I think the big idea behind torpedoes is a rare, one-use weapon which you can only find, not produce. Given the absurd amount of damage they do, I think that to implement an idea like this, the only really balanced way would be to nerf the damage torpedoes do across the board.
No offense, but considering you can buy upwards of 300 torpedoes at a single Equipment Dock in the Naonite Regions, I see no reason why this is really necessary.
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I feel like this would be balanced due to the sheer difficulty of GETTING ships. So, you would really have to grind to get more than a few ships docked to this mothership.
One question, though - how is this fundamentally different from just docking regular ships to one, bigger ship?
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12 hours ago, Nyrin said:
It would've been cool if they were incorporated into the post-XWG convoy. "Returning to the homes of our ancestors" or something.
Maybe something for the sequel, where we discover the Adventurer was the true villain all along.
If any of you have ever played Portal 2, then you'd have a good idea of how a helpful, friendly persona can turn very, very unfriendly. Y'know in the tutorial, where the Adventurer apologizes for losing you your ship? There are two options: "That's all right" or "It's all your fault!"
I propose dialogue options in every conversation with him that are either friendly and grateful or mean and spiteful. If a player decides to always be mean and spiteful, then the Adventurer will still help you, but grow more and more hurt as he sees what you're becoming: a galaxy-wide force.
If, after the final boss fight, you have never been very nice to him, then he sends you an invitation to a conference.
All the AI factions around the Barrier are called together by him in this conference, to address some growing fears of you becoming power-hungry. Every faction would be represented by one, super-powerful ship, and there would be one Station in the sector - the Tribunal. The Adventurer leads the proceedings, proposing that each faction that you ever helped/made allies with stand on one side of the station, and all that are opposed to you on the other side. The Adventurer holds sway in these proceedings - he's set the rules that if more are opposed than for, then all factions will band together against you. He himself can convince many AI factions to join either side, and this is where the kicker is. If you've been nice to him all along, then he will try to sway as many factions for you as he can. If you haven't, then he'll do everything he can to convict you. The player can, of course, influence the proceedings themselves - by being disrespectful in dialogue, they sway more to the side of the opposed; by being respectful and arguing well, they can sway more to their side.
At the end of the proceedings, those who were opposed either start a galaxy-wide war with all your sectors, or, if you succeeded, the same thing happens - but some of the AI are on your side, and will help and assist you in the many large fleet actions to come.
Were Boxelware to start working on something like this, I think it would be good for two reasons; one, it wouldn't take much more work than dialogue and designing one station, and two, whatever happens, the player will be introduced to empire-building.
Whaddya think?
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I'll admit, I do agree with this. I've never tried playing on Permadeath mode, but having a 2.2km long warship deleted by a boss or crashing at full boost into an asteroid
a.) Doesn't matter - spend that 2,500c Reconstruction Token and be on your way (non-Permadeath).
b.) Matters a LOT - you'll have to found a new ship and drain both your resource and credit balances to get a single ship back up and running again.
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16 hours ago, FuryoftheStars said:
Hmm, maybe the added requirement to the mission to have X cargo space free like delivery missions? That would be easy to implement and would avoid negative results in either direction (and also assuming it'd be easier to implement than a new crew type of FreedSlaves that's only for these missions, and has no stats or positions).
Yes! That sounds like something that should have been added a long time ago.
How does one get this mission, btw?
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20 hours ago, Cemuvi said:
wtf 🤣
Yeah... Every astronomer ever has tried to come up with a better acronym, but shock value is better than anything for remembering something, so I figure it'll stay put for a while.
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I think that this should be a feature in any difficulties higher than 'easy'. Although, having the Adventurer either die for good or turn evil might be a cool plot extension from the XWG. Y'know, while you were away fighting the XWG (without him, and without a word of thanks for all his assistance) he spreads enough rumors that all the AI but your allies turn on you. The galaxy becomes a hostile place, save for a few friendly factions.
And the Adventurer becomes a despot, I dunno, at the edge of the galaxy? Maybe gets Operation Exodus together under the idea that you've become the next Xsotan?
Just spitballing. TL;DR, he's not annoying enough for me to warrant removal. Heck, I should give him something for babying me onto the galactic throne.
Definitely be nice (maybe an unlockable feature after the first playthrough?)
2 cents 😉
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"Drone Spawn Block"
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Exactly what the title says.
I request the addition of a block into Avorion, which is shaped like a drone and cannot be resized. It disappears when you are in your drone, and reappears when you reenter your ship.
Wherever you place this block on your ship - even inside - that is where the drone will spawn.
That will give an actual functionality to decorative pieces.