I'd like to see some more interesting stats added to the game. Not a big complaint, as I am liking the game so far - not rushing things, I have a handful of ships for different tasks and am currently 1500lys heading out toward the outer spiral arms (although I am tempted to turn around and pick up an imperial courier while it's easier to get one), but I would like to see more stat capabilities for my ships.
For instance, I would love to see an Odometer. Just how far have I flown in my Asp? Inconsequential to game play, but furthering immersion. How many running hours on my engines? Fuel consumed? To add a little more immersion, maybe engines will need some maintenance and a tune up when I get back to base. The cost of thruster repair is already in the game, ship integrity is in the game, maybe wear and tear on specific high stress parts like this would add just a little bit more realism (yes, I know we are zooming all over the galaxy in space ships
) . Maybe the metal around the thrusters become discolored from use, like paint peeling or fading away.
Things like kills per weapon, or total damage done might give some good feedback as to which weapons I'm connecting with my target with. Which ones are landing the killing blows? A C3 large canon sounds great, but if checking weapon stats you find out you are only connecting 25% of the time and your burst lasers are whats actually doing more damage and getting more killing blows, it might lead you to rethink your load out, as cool as canons sound.
On the topic of kills (and I think there was another thread on here) how about some kill tallies like they used to do on WWII planes? Someone mentioned airplane nose art and pinups. Maybe different badges and insignias for the number of kills.
Not game changing, but just cool small stuff like this.
I know this adds a bit of overhead as far as database size - entries per ship, per commander, etc, but I just think it would be cool.
For instance, I would love to see an Odometer. Just how far have I flown in my Asp? Inconsequential to game play, but furthering immersion. How many running hours on my engines? Fuel consumed? To add a little more immersion, maybe engines will need some maintenance and a tune up when I get back to base. The cost of thruster repair is already in the game, ship integrity is in the game, maybe wear and tear on specific high stress parts like this would add just a little bit more realism (yes, I know we are zooming all over the galaxy in space ships
) . Maybe the metal around the thrusters become discolored from use, like paint peeling or fading away. Things like kills per weapon, or total damage done might give some good feedback as to which weapons I'm connecting with my target with. Which ones are landing the killing blows? A C3 large canon sounds great, but if checking weapon stats you find out you are only connecting 25% of the time and your burst lasers are whats actually doing more damage and getting more killing blows, it might lead you to rethink your load out, as cool as canons sound.
On the topic of kills (and I think there was another thread on here) how about some kill tallies like they used to do on WWII planes? Someone mentioned airplane nose art and pinups. Maybe different badges and insignias for the number of kills.
Not game changing, but just cool small stuff like this.
I know this adds a bit of overhead as far as database size - entries per ship, per commander, etc, but I just think it would be cool.