Canopy armors and carrying ammunition

[DHMeyer]

+ Rep. I like the idea. I remember when I was still flying my Cobra, I was ending up with a cracked canopy quite frequently. Getting armour and hull enforcement helped a lot, so I guess one of these upgrades means also a tougher canopy. But I like being able to cover the canopy. This sort of functionality would also make a good use of this: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=239418

As for carrying ammo, I think it could be stored in special ammo compartments as opposed to regular cargo bays. Personally I use only energy weapons and the only reason for that is that I don't want to bother with having to restock ammo. If I could carry it, perhaps I would be more convinced to use kinetic weapons more often.

 

[kubility]

I have been asking for a separate canopy module for ages. I would love to be able to buy canopy upgrades.
I still hope we will get this eventually.

this one was on this thread. you could see, if u ever bothered to look.

My options on those 30 ships I could choice the Strength and weakness of a ship I choice.

That why I never died vs you dying and complaining about canopy breaking.

That would look funny on any Lakon 6, 7, 9 or Asp Explorer that has Huge canopy.

1. so you re choosing something.(sarcasm) why dont you play the game on hard! play with sidewinder all the way. go kill a corvette with your sidewinder. it is elite dangerous so go play it hard! (/sarcasm)

2.tnx for pointing that out, but back then i wasn't much of a fighter in ED. you know trading and stuff. didn't had to take on more than 2 pirates. but now can rip powerplants of anacondas' like nothing. no matter npc or cmdr...

3. i had all of those ships. didn't need a video to see how do they look, but tnx anyway

I like the idea of retracting a metal shield over your bridge. I think it balances it self out by taking time to retract and deploy and having a small slit to view through.
Glass on a military ship? BAH!

Military doesn't care about us! CMDR lives matter!!!

Here the problem People are asking for a idea and not doing their research. Let take the cockpit and I am talking about A real look at the Elite Dangerous ship cockpit. Look at the Asp and the Lakon type ships. Also the 30 years of elite history I don't think there was talk about canopy armor. If the topic came about 3 years ago when they design the game the idea came up the idea might have work better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiTRJpvbmhU

as i mentioned before, i've had all of those ships you pointed out and still have asp ex to smuggling stuff. i would really love to create an animation myself, but i do not know how to create 3d animated stuff. but i can assure you an animation like vulture's (you told you had a vaulter but i guess they both are the same thing) hardpoint deploying (something like wide to thin) would look badass instead of funny. just think of a ship (any of it) just after you interdicted it deploys hardpoints and retracts canopy armors. it is like 3300s medieval helmet. next thing i'll ask is a cape from wolf leather on top of the ship

for balancing purposes normal military grade composites can be 100 m (for instance) and with deployable cocpit armor 135 m and it will still has to deploy - retreact, breachable and limit FOV outside of the ship.

 

[kubility]

Well canopy can be repaired. I just checked it out. So there no need for better protection. Just pilot quick thinking.

The ammo in cargo rack has been talk about. You can farm for refills. But they don't want a anaconda or cutter full cargo of ammo.

i'd like to see armors but i wanna ask if your cocpit was breached when you used them or not ? i never used them cause i encounter something like this just once (mentioned before), then didn't even had serious hull damage. protection is on one hand and on the other hand having something like that would look awesome since we dont have any animation within cocpit (instead pushing buttons and the throttle stick). can be used even just for changing vision from eye to hologram or thermal.

in horizons you can i guess(?) but i dont have horizons cause i missed a discount and waiting for the next one. in any event if i'm to pick if to explore or bounty hunting i would pick hunting. ED's push to exploring might be fun(?) yet i dont want to. there is just too many ships to blow up and so little ammo =.= and i linked another suggestion which is about ship to ship landing. using this with that it would make it much more important

 

[DocLooshkin]

It's intended that we will eventually have atmospheres and oceans to fly around and dive in. Right now, we can have an open-air canopy while flying in the atmosphere of a star - and FD's special recipe for handwavium soufflé keeps us all perfectly safe.

By the time we're diving 5KM deep in an ocean of sulphuric acid - where one lucky shot should be enough to kill the ship outright - that soufflé will probably taste a little stale. I don't know what FD plans to do, but I doubt they'll do nothing.

The mechanics will almost certainly change, sooner or later - and reinforced canopies seem as good an answer as any.

 

[Psycho Romeo]

Don't lump completely unrelated suggestions like this together in a thread. It only makes it harder for everyone.
Also your OP has a terrible affliction: illegibility.

I see no reason why we need an upgradable canopy because I see no reason why this can't be a function of existing things such as life support or something like an HRP.

Ammo racks have been asked for for a long time. I'm on the fence about the subject. On one hand, ammo is there to limit you. On the other hand, internal compartments are currently being used to directly affect combat potential and ammo racks align with this. Though this is really stupid and absolutely destroying balance in its current implementation.

We're supposedly getting a weapons balance pass sometime soon. How ammo is going to change is anyone's guess.

 

[Velixar]

i'd like to see armors but i wanna ask if your cocpit was breached when you used them or not ? i never used them cause i encounter something like this just once (mentioned before), then didn't even had serious hull damage. protection is on one hand and on the other hand having something like that would look awesome since we dont have any animation within cocpit (instead pushing buttons and the throttle stick). can be used even just for changing vision from eye to hologram or thermal.

in horizons you can i guess(?) but i dont have horizons cause i missed a discount and waiting for the next one. in any event if i'm to pick if to explore or bounty hunting i would pick hunting. ED's push to exploring might be fun(?) yet i dont want to. there is just too many ships to blow up and so little ammo =.= and i linked another suggestion which is about ship to ship landing. using this with that it would make it much more important

With the repair unit. It only repairs cracks. Not a full blown out canopy.

 

[kubility]

reviving this post back, because there is so much stat based canopy suggestions that wont change anything but some numbers in-game stats. and i simply want animated one.

does adding pool to already created topic posible ? if so i'd like to know how or someone to add "i'd like to see this in game", "needs improvement" and "i'm against this modification" options so i can see results better.

 

[Slopey]

This does not need to be revived. The discussion was already finished.

Also, please don't post in bold style fonts as it is difficult to read.