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sml weapon port ideas
i am not going to bother with new photon, ion, or silly-string guns... that's a complete waste of time.
ideas i would like to see in VO:
- flare gun -
for those "im in a blank sector, and there are supposed to be six other guys/NPC's in here but i can find them" times... just fires a NOTICABLE glowing ball. comes in the same colour as your ship/guild(except black, a glowing black ball wont work).
- defensive flare/chaff -
it's for avoiding missles, avoiding missles, and for avoiding missles...
- advanced mining beams -
the mining beam in the sml port is not very effective... it works, but even in it's description it says that.
just looking for something with a lower temp, or maybe have another one that works faster...
- auto-centering beam -
there have been a couple times where i have had to warp/turbo into the station docks due to an unhealthy atmosphere just outside... it's in those unlucky times where a piece of your ship catches an edge of the station, and launches you into a spiraling mess, making you a targetable projectile...
if only by a click of a button, i can be centered to that docking bay to make a safe landing.
and last but not least,
- emergancy warp drive -
a ONE use "get out of jail free card"
this would have it's own power supply, but the unfortunate part of this is you have no idea where you are going to be warped to... some random location, hell, it could be SO random, that you could be coming out of the WH in Latos, find a group of pirates waiting for you, hit your EWD, and end up in Pherona, in an ion storm, with no nav-course, with one useless weapon port, and no energy still(it hasnt replenished from Latos WH).
just some ideas, a couple of them might fly, some wont... who knows?!?
ideas i would like to see in VO:
- flare gun -
for those "im in a blank sector, and there are supposed to be six other guys/NPC's in here but i can find them" times... just fires a NOTICABLE glowing ball. comes in the same colour as your ship/guild(except black, a glowing black ball wont work).
- defensive flare/chaff -
it's for avoiding missles, avoiding missles, and for avoiding missles...
- advanced mining beams -
the mining beam in the sml port is not very effective... it works, but even in it's description it says that.
just looking for something with a lower temp, or maybe have another one that works faster...
- auto-centering beam -
there have been a couple times where i have had to warp/turbo into the station docks due to an unhealthy atmosphere just outside... it's in those unlucky times where a piece of your ship catches an edge of the station, and launches you into a spiraling mess, making you a targetable projectile...
if only by a click of a button, i can be centered to that docking bay to make a safe landing.
and last but not least,
- emergancy warp drive -
a ONE use "get out of jail free card"
this would have it's own power supply, but the unfortunate part of this is you have no idea where you are going to be warped to... some random location, hell, it could be SO random, that you could be coming out of the WH in Latos, find a group of pirates waiting for you, hit your EWD, and end up in Pherona, in an ion storm, with no nav-course, with one useless weapon port, and no energy still(it hasnt replenished from Latos WH).
just some ideas, a couple of them might fly, some wont... who knows?!?
Heck, I'd use the Emergency Warp Drive for fun, or for going from Sedina to Deneb (via Divinia, Dau, and Itan, after successive mistargeted jumps). :D
COMPLETELY random... there would still be the chance you'ld warp to the same sector you were trying to leave... a small chance, but a chance none the less...
the flare gun and mining beams would be better suited to a utility port, if the game ever gets those... I say no to the centering thingamajig, just because if you can't manage to rush into a docking bay without issuing, then maybe you shouldn't be flying to hostile stations.