On 2013-10-30 23:41, Kenny_Naboo wrote:

Quote: On 2013-10-30 20:12, Azreal wrote: DS2. Imagine it, ships that have to be assembled. Ordered. Components made. Cant wait for DarkSpace2

You can play EVE now

On 2013-10-31 10:39, Kenny_Naboo wrote:

Quote: On 2013-10-31 01:01, Orkan [A-OO] wrote: I like the general idea of customisation but it should not be to craft items which cause balance issues. The existing framework of enhancements especially the unique ones could (perhaps) most easily be adapted to this role. Buying enhancements as now would have to stay but there could be a way to 'craft' your own set of weapon coolers, say, from certain materials found on certain planets which would take a much longer period of time. A planet would have to be owned by a certain faction and have an allegiance of minimum 5 or 8 before any orbital enhancement production could be attempted. Eg Owning a planet with hypermatter could allow an engineer in orbit to make engine tuners, metals would allow for weapon multiplexers and so on. Some common resources would make minor enhancements whereas rarer resources. could be used to make the uniques. Perhaps a pilots' construction prestige/or construction badges allowed them to craft the next 'level' of enhancements but never above the existing set already in Darkspace eg normally to a max of 6% but platinum construction badge could allow making the 'uniques', with the correct resources. This would bring back a proper use for planetary resources, especially if those could be picked up and transported from planet to planet as a seperate entity from regular resources to aid construction of a certain enhancement. Eg each enhancement would be made up of ingredients or a mix of say eg Minor Weapon Cooler 10,000 hypermatter 25,000 metals 50,000 urdanium 5,000 dark matter - something like that, craft time would go up with complexity of item. Why? cos sometimes not much is going on or it would cater for people who like that stuff and perhaps would keep more people in the game. Also how about being able to construct a single one per faction ai Station Shipyard which need not be made planetside but serves as a deep space spawn point and base of operations for your faction. Difficult to destroy but with minimal offensive weaponry if any at all. From there attacks could be launched on hostile servers or it could be hunted down by the enemy to further limit faction deployment possibilities.

Sounds interesting. The ability to create your own enh (other than paying credits for it) out of raw materials.

Would be nice if you require factory buildings or platforms to achieve this. Then it'd be in your own interest to protect those facilities lest your investment, raw mats, or enh get destroyed.

I wonder how feasible this would be within the game's code.

On 2013-10-30 20:12, Azreal wrote:
DS2.

Imagine it, ships that have to be assembled. Ordered. Components made.

Cant wait for DarkSpace2

On 2014-01-03 10:35, Azreal wrote:
I have a dream that we could have a sy screen that is more like a personal dry dock, where you interface to make changes.

I have a dream of a more "alive" metaverse, with civilian craft, pirates, planetary patrols, etc.

I have a dream of a DS with a viable mission system that adds some real depth to the game.

I have a dream that fleets, planets, and entire system moral has a real impact on gameplay. Where subterfuge and propaganda are just as important as number of ships.

But im sure that's just me.