few ideas here:
1. im thinking about star wars and how they were using a massive power plant on endor to supply shields to the new death star - what if we could harness a planets core as a power source and have a link to a nearby station in orbit to supply it with power ?
2. what about dyson spheres to take power from a sun? and transmit that power through subspace to every faction ship within x sectors? however, instead of building the actual sphere, a special "small" station with a certain configuration must be build that generates a static structure that will act as the dyson sphere - so visually it will hold the star, but it wont be billions of blocks, it just be a graphical thing like the planet auras/atmospheres.
3. what about having "technology restricted" building where you have a tech tree that you have to level up through in order to use stuff. yes eventually "master builders" will max it out, and it should be faction based not user based , maybe with some sort of bonus if the ship / station was built by a master builder.
4. tech tree could be as simple as having upgraded versions of all of the basic blocks to build with, to locking factions into only having certain blocks available until they research more.
5. max number of blocks could be tied to the tech tree. kind of like how building titan sized ships was an endgame thing in moo2 etc
6. players should have various kinds of xp levels that affect their usefulness. such as combat xp (better battles), building xp, salvaging xp (rare components), mining xp (rare resources) etc. this would require some, maybe server selected options for RP variables. like building flaws and variable hp or armor levels. IE the shipyard is making a ship but instead of level 5 armor blocks there is a spread of 20% of them being level 1 to 4, but if my level of ship building is high, that will be reduced. or maybe some non essential blocks get ommitted, like an armor block that in the design is surrounded by other armor blocks in a way that if it was missing, itwouldn't be obvious,there should bea chance that it is omitted based on the levelof ship building (overseeing) skill. there is alot that can be done here to add a really strong RP element to the ships.
7. the above would make a faction more of a prestigious membership than just having access to blueprints/designs (is that a thing yet for factions?) and or ship / station access.
1. im thinking about star wars and how they were using a massive power plant on endor to supply shields to the new death star - what if we could harness a planets core as a power source and have a link to a nearby station in orbit to supply it with power ?
2. what about dyson spheres to take power from a sun? and transmit that power through subspace to every faction ship within x sectors? however, instead of building the actual sphere, a special "small" station with a certain configuration must be build that generates a static structure that will act as the dyson sphere - so visually it will hold the star, but it wont be billions of blocks, it just be a graphical thing like the planet auras/atmospheres.
3. what about having "technology restricted" building where you have a tech tree that you have to level up through in order to use stuff. yes eventually "master builders" will max it out, and it should be faction based not user based , maybe with some sort of bonus if the ship / station was built by a master builder.
4. tech tree could be as simple as having upgraded versions of all of the basic blocks to build with, to locking factions into only having certain blocks available until they research more.
5. max number of blocks could be tied to the tech tree. kind of like how building titan sized ships was an endgame thing in moo2 etc
6. players should have various kinds of xp levels that affect their usefulness. such as combat xp (better battles), building xp, salvaging xp (rare components), mining xp (rare resources) etc. this would require some, maybe server selected options for RP variables. like building flaws and variable hp or armor levels. IE the shipyard is making a ship but instead of level 5 armor blocks there is a spread of 20% of them being level 1 to 4, but if my level of ship building is high, that will be reduced. or maybe some non essential blocks get ommitted, like an armor block that in the design is surrounded by other armor blocks in a way that if it was missing, itwouldn't be obvious,there should bea chance that it is omitted based on the levelof ship building (overseeing) skill. there is alot that can be done here to add a really strong RP element to the ships.
7. the above would make a faction more of a prestigious membership than just having access to blueprints/designs (is that a thing yet for factions?) and or ship / station access.
