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Hmmm.... I was using a length based class system for my ships, although that has considerable shortcomings, so I was planning on making up one based on mass, using my current ships as reference. I might use this one, I'll have to see how my ships fit into it. One of my pet peeves has been seeing...

I doubt it.

Right now, land/atmospheric vehicles don't really exist. Any vehicle that can move around well on a planet will also have enough thrust to go into space, and thus is really a spacecraft. I have ideas for number of changes too make land vehicles and atmospheric craft an actual thing, distinct...

I totally agree with this, seems like a reasonably easy to implement thing that would be really cool. But I also don't get the "makes logical sense" thing. I mean, I suppose in theory you COULD do this with a particle beam or plasma, but I don't see why you would. Energy loss for no gain. But...

I'm putting together a few, mostly similar sized to isanths, but more powerful. A few larger ones as well.

I have a destroyer with single-axis heavy turrets that are very effective (perhaps largely because they have the magical power to shoot sideways). But I recently put the exact same turrets on a new ship I am working on, and they just tracked a target and fired once then stopped moving. In fact...

Whats the massive dish on the bottom of the design picture?

I would rather have guns ONLY fire forwards, or at least much less than now. The only actual limit to a weapons firing arc right now is your view.

I suppose I might put some stuff together. Old military craft refitted for civilian use, then re-refitted by pirates, freighters with guns added, outdated fighters..... That is the sort of stuff I will go for.

Perhaps I should set up a battle station covered in stop beams and with massive jump inhibitors........

I see why you want this, but I don't think its really a good idea. I feel like this idea is coming from the desire to make ships from various franchises accurate and also combat effective in the game. I have also often felt the need for mechanics to change to match whatever scifi. I for a while...

I would go with logic activated composite weapons. Like a beam array that contains beams with ion and explosive effects, and perhaps some stop beams thrown in to hold targets in place. A few nukes can work well to finish off damaged ships that have had their point defense largely destroyed...

I honestly think that all mounted weapons should be fixed, or at least have their arc massively reduced. It just doesn't seem right that we can shoot into the very corners of our screens with super weapons. And it is quite unfair to smaller craft.

How about adding a fire control station that increases turret accuracy, or that can be made by the addition of some sort of antenna to improve accuracy on nearby friendly ships?

I would prefer a means to grapple a boarding ship onto another ships hull, then one could cut trough with a torch (or some clever logic-activated cutting beams) into the enemy ship. Seems more interesting than just zapping over too the enemy ship, and some cool designs for boarding ships could...

Sooo.... what you are saying is that you want core drilling back? No thanks, I don't want one block to be the point of the entire ship. As Azereiah said, your problem is that you are fighting ships that are about 80% hull, and largely empty. Fight a real capital ship and things will be different.

Didn't they just fix that?

Drat! Lag based weaponry is the only thing that could have countered my anti-titan ion frigate and bomber strategy!

Decent shape, but I would add some details.

I don't feel that this is really needed. My weapons at least already tear stuff up pretty well.