Disabling them seems like the simplest and most effective way to prevent a balance nightmare.
If self-powered turrets break balance they won't work. If they can be balanced in a way that addresses the concerns above, that would probably be ideal.
...That makes too much sense. *AGREE SMASH*
Because there needs to be some limit to allow for specialization. You only have X slots, what are you going to put in them? If you can fit all of the upgrades onto your ship, there's no actual specialization. Take the example in the video: there's nothing like speed boosts or cloaking and there's no room for that. If you want to retrofit your ship with something like that, you need to remove something else.
But nearly all of the biggest balance problems with the current power system come from docked, self powered weapon and shield systems. We should strike preemptively and just get rid of them now. Turrets should be treated as mobile parts of the main ship, not drones locked to a bigger ship. It would also make defense station designing require more thought.
See, the thing with this is that I understand the reasoning behind it, but everything from the name to the idea itself and its implications... reminds me all too much of games where you drag little icons into slots to equip your ships with things, and you get a certain amount of slots. Which runs completely counter to much of the attraction of this game. Then again, if there is no better solution, I won't exactly try to fight this.
Hmm... maybe there needs to be a (somewhat difficult) way to increase the amount of tech points available in the name of flexibility. As in, have a lower starting amount of tech points, but add some means for increasing tech points. This means, of course, would need to be pretty expensive, but in its current state, the universe doesn't have many expensive/hard to get things in it. So maybe that'll have to be left until future universe updates.
I think the point of them being limited is to prevent a "specialisation in everything" scenario, as far as I can see it's just a game of choosing what bonuses you want to receive; and you always get some number of them (unless you're a tiny ship)
I thought about this too, but at the same time I like that there is some sort of hard limit shared by ships of all sizes and kinds.
That sounds good on the surface, but it could get ridiculous or overpowered quickly. Immagine a chamber 16 blocks longs and 4 high with 64 redundant conduits running to it. It would be more balanced and elegant to rely on putting internal armor around your conduits and other critical systems.
Missiles are your friend. Regardless, there'll probably be some drawback to running tons of conduits...
From what I can tell, it will actually be a lot less complicated in practice than it looks. You put down a reactor, place a bunch of system chambers (while not exceeding your maximum 'tech points'), you put down some conduits to connect it all together, and then add weapons. Instead of a global power capacity weapons now have their own capacity, so you don't even have to worry about putting down enough batteries to power everything.This just...looks so much more complicated than what we have in game now to me, and it may be my end, which is fine ive had fun for 3-5 years, i forget exactly. If the majority likes it though, then so be it
Still though, 1800 hours isnt to bad in a game for 5$ xD
The weapons-capacity thing just means that there will be no intermediary. No more power capacitors, just straight draws, which changed based on two things: Full/not full states of weapons and damage sustained to systems.
