[Suggestion] Connector Block

[DarkPaapi]

Hello guys.

I was wandering, is it a good idea to have a kind of connector block? Not for merging, just to attach ships together.

 

For example I would love to build a huge mother ship with 2 destroyers stacked on the bottom, and when the trouble comes just let them go to play, because be fair the AI is not to perfect in pathfinding and following so huge fleets are out...

 

Or just to make external components for the ship like cargo bays, so you don't need to go to the build menu and draw a Enormous cube on the back of the ship and look for enough crew for a few cargo drops, or spend hours to create a new ship (people with OCD know what I mean...) and play around with the escort me nightmare.

 

Anyway it's doable like the mass, energy, shields, engines adding together etc. , the only problem could be the systems and turrets.

[clearmist]

I like this Idea. Because I do have an additional fighter and I would like to be able to jump systems knowing he is going to follow me (regardless of his jump range) but having to upgrade his jump system to match mine then hoping he wasn't distracted before i jump. To many times I would jump to the new system finding my other ship didn't follow me.. Having to wait for the hyperdrive jump back kill what was distracting him wait for hyper drive again to re-jump is kind of annoying.

[Subquake]

I like this idea. It's basically a proper docking port. If that could be done, I would like to see this change also applicable to existing station docking ports and when you dock to the station, you actually have to dock and connect with it and disconnect with it when you are done. That would be so great, immersion wise especially.

[MiniChiken]

I'm picturing something like this and can't support it enough.