a Wishlist for 2025, post yours (No big new features pls)

Coolgroove

Coolgroove
Important QoL improvements:

  • Permanent toggle for FA. As an option in settings, where you can select how FA keybind behaves (Hold / Toggle), add a third option - Permanent Toggle, that will make the game remember FA (OFF) and keep it in that state after the game is closed and launched again. Edit: Keep the reset back to FA ON with regular Toggle, but remember the last state (OFF or ON) with Permanent Toggle.
  • Yaw / Roll / Thrusters sliders for an input strength (for KM+M controls, separate sliders). Slider from 0 to 3 (seconds) that would determine how long player needs to hold the button down for the maximum strength of the input. For example, with slider set to 0 it'll behave the same way as it is now - maximum strength on a keypress. With slider set to 2 it'll start with minimal input strength and over 2 seconds (of holding the button) increase it to the maximum strength in a liniar manner, without messing up how these buttons behave in other parts of the game/UI.
  • Add Engine Volume and Engine Boost volume sliders to Sound Effects volume group.
  • Let ships be stored with cargo in them, without transferring cargo to an active ship !!!!!
  • Editable Ignore List in Inventory Panel - to be able to review and edit what limpets will pick up or ignore, without having to target any cargo or even have it near if it was added previously.
Edit: Very cool idea, posted in another thread by Moirai - Loadout Manager to store current Outfitting Loadouts, and switch to/between them.

Fixes:

  • FIX SHADOWS !!!
  • FIX "Transaction Error" !!!
  • FIX map (galaxy and system) not registering clicks to select objects, not opening menus, etc.
  • Mandalay - FIX the lights, it quite often makes day look like evening and night look like evening, but only when under the ship or in cockpit.
  • Mandalay - Make search lights a part of main ship lights, so they can be turned on/off when needed. If landing gear is not deployed and ship lights turn ON = search lights stay OFF. If landing gear is deployed = search light turn ON when main ship headlights turn ON.
  • Mandalay - Fix Fuel scooping indicator overlap with FSD charge indicator in the cockpit. When overlap happens, a block with destination information doesn't show. For exploration ship it is important! Edit: FIX that second part for all ships!
  • Mandalay - FIX thrusters visuals (vectoring/direction)
  • FIX Engines plumes for all ships
  • FIX Concord Cannon overcharged modification bugs (Not possible to restock, -1 ammo on login)


Global improvements:

  • Connect all global systems, so they are not just "game modes". Ability to pick up missions for a Ship when on-foot and on-foot missions from a ship, with an access to all facilities (Ship & On-foot) from any mode - will be a great start!
  • Recalculate all prices of everything in the game, and make them make sense. Then adjust rewards from everything accordingly.


Improvements for On-foot gameplay:

  • Non-lethal options for on-foot. Stun-guns or stun-ammo, melee stun weapons, etc. (if another NPC finds a stunned body they could revive them sooner)
  • Ability to move bodies (both stunned and dead, on-foot).
  • Ability to close opened containers to hide tampering (on-foot), cut open containers could still raise suspicion but only at a closer range.
  • Tools and mechanics to distract NPCs on-foot (illegal consumable items).
  • Ability to select more than one tracking target from a terminal (on-foot).
  • Place own tracking markers on-foot (at any point, not just from a terminal).


Improvements for Silent Running gameplay:

  • Engineering experimental effect for any ship's hull modification that makes Night Vision able to highlight a ship only if closer than 250-500 m (emissive munitions status effect boost it up to a 500-1000 m).
  • Make NPCs not track SR ship and only move to the last spot/vector is was spotted on.
  • Decoy transponders, when launched cools down your ship, same as Heat Sink, then takes the signature of your ship and slowly moves in a direction it was launched for some time, makes your actual ship (if SR is ON) less detectable (positive status effect that removes ships from scanners even as an unresolved target for a short time). Maybe an experimental effect for Heat Sinks at the cost of double reload time, mass, whatever.
  • Edit: All that ^ for both Players and NPCs.
 
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Kira Goto

Kira Goto
Coolgroove said:
Fix Fuel scooping indicator overlap with FSD charge indicator in the cockpit. When overlap happens, a block with destination information doesn't show. For exploration ship it is important!
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Not specific to Mandalay, by the way. Happens with any ship if you start charging a jump while the fuel scoop indicator is active.
Rainbro said:
GalNet to have its budget restored.
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Seconded.
Flimley said:
And where are the are the giant seventies lava lamps for me fleet carrier!
It would be nice to dress these up a bit with different rooms and such on those long voyages.
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... make sure not to break them by accident, that would be one big mess in zero G especially.
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
Riverside said:
Pff any technological society capable of making a lava lamp that works in zero-G would obviously be able to make them indestructible ;)
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Oh, of course. (No sarcasm intended here, for once)

But really, you could probably create a light current in the water/liquid to achieve the effect. Getting the solids back down to the heating element once it's turned off, though... well, I'm no engineer, in the end. I'm also still sad the one I had for a good decade or longer since I was a kid broke a few years back. Not even long after I'd rediscovered it, either...

My own wish? While I'm not sure if this would or wouldn't qualify as something major, and it definitely isn't just a 2025 item, more extensive body customization for the character, not just a single preset for either male or female where you then get to tweak facial features and hair or age. Kind of 50/50 on individually scalable parts knowing what sorts of player creations that would result in, on both ends of the extreme.

But it's certainly not a thing I expect to get.
 
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