I think it would be so cool if you could deploy a "maintenance fighter" to repair your ship. Sort of like an AFM unit, but one you would need to either pilot yourself or have a Player crew mate pilot for you.
The right side weapon could be just a stock beam laser with the shield-regenerator modification on it (so you could still technically be minorly offensive and defensive), and the other would be like an AFM beam that could repair modules only by targeting the subsystem on the mothership. You could make it only work up to 30m away so you basically couldn't use it in combat. You could also make it only work when the shield is lowered, so it would take some coordination between the pilot and the crew. Not to mention it creates that cool "let's pop open the hood and fix this" type of scenario with the shields and deploying a fighter.
You wouldn't necessarily have to create any new assets, and it would mean that there's more of an incentive to use the fighter paintjob packs to indicate visually which fighter is offensive and which is for repair.
The right side weapon could be just a stock beam laser with the shield-regenerator modification on it (so you could still technically be minorly offensive and defensive), and the other would be like an AFM beam that could repair modules only by targeting the subsystem on the mothership. You could make it only work up to 30m away so you basically couldn't use it in combat. You could also make it only work when the shield is lowered, so it would take some coordination between the pilot and the crew. Not to mention it creates that cool "let's pop open the hood and fix this" type of scenario with the shields and deploying a fighter.
You wouldn't necessarily have to create any new assets, and it would mean that there's more of an incentive to use the fighter paintjob packs to indicate visually which fighter is offensive and which is for repair.
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