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With the Avorion 2.0 progression changes, an additional benefit to unlocking new materials might be to unlock new uses for older materials. The changes here might be somewhat subtle, but could greatly vary ship designs and not just focus designs on the lightest &/or beefiest materials available. Presently: Some blocks are available in a variety of shapes as soon as you get them. For blank hull, hull, armor, stone, etc; you can immediately start building in almost any shape. Oh! Crew quarters too. Proposed Change: Each time a player's ship building proficiency increases, some blocks gain new shapes that they may be placed in. New shapes may be gained a few at a time or all/nothing (I'm personally in favor of block, edge, corners, and the rest, but that discussion is something to consider and beyond this post in particular. For instance: Material +0: Normal, block choices are as they are now. Material +1: Framework, Thruster, Turret Rotation Lock, Torpedo Storage gain new shapes. Material +2: Energy Container, Dock, Assembly, Torpedo Launcher gain new designs (direction of torpedo launch could be based on the angle of a given face of the block rather than a cardinal direction. Material +3: Shield Generators, Generators, Hangars (including fighter entry/exit direction) gain new shapes. Material +4: Academy, Cloning Pods, & other things. This wouldn't have to be available for all material types; and it gives the possibility of progressing your construction prowess beyond Avorion (material), through other endgame challenges. Otherwise, the way materials are shown above, you could only make Edgy Academies from Naonite when you unlock Avorion as a building material. Either way, it would be interesting to see if the amount of performance of some blocks would be sacrificed for stuffing other blocks on edges and corners; and potentially keep some earlier materials more relevant throughout the game.

Suggestion: When you use a building knowledge, the tier of your drone's mining lasers improves to match. The drone could look like the new material as well.

Idea : The progression of technology upgrading when going from one tier of resource to another is one of the most compelling gameplay loops present in Avorion. Going from Iron to Titanium and getting a generator, then to Naonite and getting shielding, then Tritium with the hanger and academy, and Xanion with the Cloning pods. It's a shame that there is no extra technological unlocks when you get to the late game resources, it feels cheap that you just end up with raw number boosts. I think that the late game resources should still unlock new modules that your ship can enhance and toy around with. Give Ogonite blocks the ability to become Shield Projector blocks that create stronger shields that only work in a certain direction based on the blocks orientation, multiple types of shield blocks, like shield enhancer, reflector, electrifier, etc. making shields have effects beyond just blocking incoming damage Give Avorion the ability to become Weapon blocks. Essentially transforming an entire sector of your ship into a singular massive weapon based on three types of avorion weapon blocks; - Dedicated weapon energy generators - Weapon ammo containers - and the Turret barrel block itself. Give the Avorion weapon system multiple choices for ammo configuration, things like anti-capital railguns, homing energy torpedoes, massive spooling machine guns, flamethrowers, etc. Give Turrets and weapons unique modifiers and make Turret Factories able to modify a turrets properties up to and beyond the material that's used to create it. Things like elemental effects and damage, corrosion, fire, charge shot, spooling weapon, homing lock-on, slowing, etc. Also, boarding a ship should never make its omicron decrease, it's such a slap in the players face when you put so much effort in to not put a ship into fatal damage to take it over only for it to become devalued the moment you actually take it over. Like, imagine buying a ferrari and the moment you step into the ferrari it turns into a chevy impala. That's basically what happens when you do ship boarding in Avorion