Ill admit. I love the changes.
Really good work by FD.
An idea I had (with others) in the beta was to make the Asteroids more explosive. Using physical reactions, EG: Methane Clathrate trapped within an Ice Asteroid should really, really blow up! Im not talking about the ship shaking and the screen going dark, but big enough to take out a good chunk from an Anaconda, and reduce its shield to tatters!
What I would like to see is MORE Core Roid's but with this new chemical system. A newbie sees an Roid and does not pay attention to the composition. He or she just sees those lovely Void Opals... They hit detonate...
And that's it... Whopping great explosion, screen whites out with the alarms blaring in a sub vaccum as the Canopy has been blown out, and the rebuy screen.
One very good addition would be to tag asteroids. Why? Instead of the 10 second countdown, you could also have a hair trigger button. Pirate hassling you? no problem. Get him annoyed and scoot past that Tagged dud asteroid you placed the charges on. Someone is about to have a VERY bad day. hehehe! It would lead to some great emergent gameplay.
Naturally the pirates could buy Charge detectors (though not TOO accurate) and the prospector limpet range will have to be increased to 20km. Which kinda makes sense. After all, 3x collectors have a 4km range. Just put it down to power output.
It might also be an answer to the SSM problem. Get the right asteroid composition and the resulting increase in detonation will help with material generation.
Cmon now. You just gave us explosives FD. It should be dangerous, and nerve wracking! You guys agree?
PS: One more idea. Shrapnel... Ice is poorest, Rock is ok and Metallic...need I say more?
Really good work by FD.
An idea I had (with others) in the beta was to make the Asteroids more explosive. Using physical reactions, EG: Methane Clathrate trapped within an Ice Asteroid should really, really blow up! Im not talking about the ship shaking and the screen going dark, but big enough to take out a good chunk from an Anaconda, and reduce its shield to tatters!
What I would like to see is MORE Core Roid's but with this new chemical system. A newbie sees an Roid and does not pay attention to the composition. He or she just sees those lovely Void Opals... They hit detonate...
And that's it... Whopping great explosion, screen whites out with the alarms blaring in a sub vaccum as the Canopy has been blown out, and the rebuy screen.
One very good addition would be to tag asteroids. Why? Instead of the 10 second countdown, you could also have a hair trigger button. Pirate hassling you? no problem. Get him annoyed and scoot past that Tagged dud asteroid you placed the charges on. Someone is about to have a VERY bad day. hehehe! It would lead to some great emergent gameplay.
Naturally the pirates could buy Charge detectors (though not TOO accurate) and the prospector limpet range will have to be increased to 20km. Which kinda makes sense. After all, 3x collectors have a 4km range. Just put it down to power output.
It might also be an answer to the SSM problem. Get the right asteroid composition and the resulting increase in detonation will help with material generation.
Cmon now. You just gave us explosives FD. It should be dangerous, and nerve wracking! You guys agree?
PS: One more idea. Shrapnel... Ice is poorest, Rock is ok and Metallic...need I say more?
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