Minor: The addition of head or spotlights to ships. This would allow the player to light up darkened areas, such as the insides of the large asteroids. And for another purpose which I will be in my Major changes.

Major: The ability to run you ship cold, i.e. shut down all systems except life support and make you invisible to radar and the "u" player list in patroled areas. Any momentum you possess when you shut down will remain due to the extremely low amount of friction found in space.

Major: In addition you should also be able to land/attatch to asteroids or other sizable objects. Whether through the use of a grapling hook of sorts (For people who wish to run cold.) or though some sort of tractor beam ((Which could be expanded for other uses in the future such as towing in damaged, but not destroyed ships for salvage (Another good change) or for offensive purposes (Ramming another ship into an asteroid.))

The major changes would benefit both Pirates (allowing them to ambush other players more efficiently) and traders (giving them the ability to hides themselves better). The light would be a good way for others to more easily identify players that are running their ships cold.

Signed,
Garrant

I like it!

I like the run cold idea. But for it to work effectively, we need more hollow roids. Hollow roids were the greatest.

Oh yeah. Will your radar with when you're running cold? Maybe just within a smaller range of you? Like in Mechwarrior 4, you could turn your radar to low and not be able to be seen for a good distance around you.

All these ideas have been suggested before. They are good ideas, but aren't too high on the priority list at the moment....or at least this is my understanding.

Too bad we don't have dynamic lighting, eh? I mean, I'd be happy if weapons fire lit stuff up. But look at our lights we have so far:

1. Station lamps- actually objects, not lamps
2. Sun- the one big light

Not much, eh?