Mods the Engineers should offer

[Konnivar]

The Engineers offer a great variety of mods, but some modules are lacking engineer mods that would be advantageous for different play-styles. Case and point, the mining laser which is lacking mods entirely. So, below I've listed some mods that would be beneficial and not game-breaking that would allow for more specialized use of various ship modules.


Mining Laser:

• Lightweight
• Efficient
• Focused - increased fragment content %s, power draw, distributor draw, and thermal load
• Overcharged - increased fragment break off speed, power draw, distributor draw, and thermal load

Collector Limpet Controller:

• Overclocked - increased power draw and limpet travel speed; reduced integrity and limpet life time
• Multi-thread - increased power draw, # of active limpets, mass; reduced integrity
• Enhanced Low Power - reduced power draw, mass, integrity, and limpet speed; increased limpet life time

Hatch Breaker Limpet Controller:

• Overclocked - increased power draw and limpet travel speed; reduced hacking time, integrity, and limpet life time
• Multi-thread - increased power draw, amount of cargo dropped, mass; reduced integrity
• Enhanced Low Power - reduced power draw, mass, integrity, and limpet speed; increased limpet life time and hacking time

Fuel Transfer Limpet Controller:

• Overclocked - increased power draw and limpet travel speed; reduced fuel transfer time, integrity, and limpet life time
• Multi-thread - increased power draw, fuel transferred per limpet, and mass; reduced integrity
• Enhanced Low Power - reduced power draw, mass, integrity, and limpet speed; increased limpet life time and fuel transfer time

Prospector Limpet Controller:

• Overclocked - increased power draw, asteroid fragment quantity, and limpet travel speed; reduced integrity and limpet life time
• Multi-thread - increased power draw, # of active limpets, mass; reduced integrity
• Enhanced Low Power - reduced power draw, mass, integrity, and limpet speed; increased limpet life time
• Advanced Scan - increased power draw, mass, asteroid fragment quantity, and asteroid content purity; reduced integrity, limpet speed, and limpet lifetime

Planetary Vehicle Hangar:

• Lightweight - reduced mass and integrity; increased power draw and boot time
• Faster Boot Sequence - reduced boot time and integrity; increased power draw
• Reinforced
• Shielded

Fighter Hangar:

• Lightweight - reduced mass and integrity; increased power draw and SLF construction time
• Faster Boot Sequence - reduced boot time and integrity; increased power draw
• Overclocked - reduced SLF construction time and integrity; increased mass
• Reinforced
• Shielded

Module Reinforcement Package:

• Heavy Duty - similar to HRP but offers increased module protection % instead of resistances
• Lightweight - similar to HRP but reduces HP

Shield Cell Bank:

• Reinforced
• Shielded
• Lightweight - reduced mass, power draw, integrity, and shield reinforcement; increased spin up time

Refinery:

• Advanced Sorting - increased # of bins and power draw; reduced integrity
• High Temperature - increased % per fragment and power draw; reduced integrity and # of bins

Fuel Scoop:

• High Volume - increased scoop rate, power draw, and heat while scooping
• Thermal Shield - decreased heat while scooping and scoop rate; increased power draw

AFMU:

• Overclocked - increased repair speed and power draw; decreased ammo and integrity
• Efficient - reduced power draw, repair speed, and integrity

Torpedo Pylon:

• Overcharged
• High Velocity - increased torpedo speed and power draw; reduced damage

Missile Rack:

• High Velocity - increased missile speed and power draw; reduced damage

Drives:

• Enhanced Low Power Tuning - Reduced Power draw, Thermal load, Mass, Optimal mass, and integrity

Sensors:

• Fast Scan

FSD Interdictor:

• Lightweight - reduced mass, capture arc, range, integrity, and power draw

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

How about rapid fire prospectors? Ones that don't take 10 seconds, or whatever, to deploy after you fire them. And faster, the only mining ship I have that can't overtake a prospector limpet while the cargo hatch is open is my Type-9.

I wonder about how much use overcharged mining lasers would be, as the distributor draw and heat are already ridiculously high. But my mining Vulture would definitely benefit from some.

 

[BurntJello]

You forgot Lightweight SRV bay, Lightweight FSD Interdictor, and Lightweight SCB. My courier needs to go faster!

Lightweight/Reinforced should be available for everything.

 

[Nero Tacitus]

You forgot Lightweight SRV bay, Lightweight FSD Interdictor, and Lightweight SCB. My courier needs to go faster!

Lightweight/Reinforced should be available for everything.

He also forgot High Capacity KWS and Feedback Cascade Point Defense. All the things should have all the things!

 

[Snarfbuckle]

How about ultralight alloys for the standard hull - reducing the base hull mass instead of the modified armour mass.

- 2.5% hull HP per 2.5% reduced hull mass so we could shave off 25% base hull mass and loose 25% HP.

 

[Konnivar]

You forgot Lightweight SRV bay, Lightweight FSD Interdictor, and Lightweight SCB. My courier needs to go faster!

Lightweight/Reinforced should be available for everything.

That I did! I knew I was forgetting something.

I've added the mods below and the lightweight interdictor and SCB to the list.

Planetary Vehicle Hangar:

• Lightweight - reduced mass and integrity; increased power draw and boot time
• Faster Boot Sequence - reduced boot time and integrity; increased power draw
• Reinforced
• Shielded

Fighter Hangar:

• Lightweight - reduced mass and integrity; increased power draw and SLF construction time
• Faster Boot Sequence - reduced boot time and integrity; increased power draw
• Overclocked - reduced SLF construction time and integrity; increased mass
• Reinforced
• Shielded

How about rapid fire prospectors? Ones that don't take 10 seconds, or whatever, to deploy after you fire them. And faster, the only mining ship I have that can't overtake a prospector limpet while the cargo hatch is open is my Type-9.

I wonder about how much use overcharged mining lasers would be, as the distributor draw and heat are already ridiculously high. But my mining Vulture would definitely benefit from some.

I've got one in there for limpet speed; I think the deploy timer thing should simply be removed and not required to be modded out.

How about ultralight alloys for the standard hull - reducing the base hull mass instead of the modified armour mass.

- 2.5% hull HP per 2.5% reduced hull mass so we could shave off 25% base hull mass and loose 25% HP.

That's more of a module than an engineering modification; we already have lightweight alloys which have 0T of mass so you can put heavy duty on them with no downside.

 

[Kenneth McGrew]

That I did! I knew I was forgetting something.

I've added the mods below and the lightweight interdictor and SCB to the list.

Planetary Vehicle Hangar:

• Lightweight - reduced mass and integrity; increased power draw and boot time
• Faster Boot Sequence - reduced boot time and integrity; increased power draw
• Reinforced
• Shielded

Fighter Hangar:

• Lightweight - reduced mass and integrity; increased power draw and SLF construction time
• Faster Boot Sequence - reduced boot time and integrity; increased power draw
• Overclocked - reduced SLF construction time and integrity; increased mass
• Reinforced
• Shielded

I think the vehicle hangar should not have any weight, i.e. not 6 tons... its weight comes in the choice of SRV, currently an empty bay weighs the same as one with an SRV in it

a whole raft of SRVs could be available with different pros cons like the current fighters

 

[Konnivar]

I think the vehicle hangar should not have any weight, i.e. not 6 tons... its weight comes in the choice of SRV, currently an empty bay weighs the same as one with an SRV in it

a whole raft of SRVs could be available with different pros cons like the current fighters

Could be something they change in the future. I like the idea; I did my best to propose mods that make sense to how the game currently is. I've got a whole list of suggestions for tweaks and changes for modules, but adding and incorporating those into this post would make it too long and confusing.

 

[Snarfbuckle]

That's more of a module than an engineering modification; we already have lightweight alloys which have 0T of mass so you can put heavy duty on them with no downside.

True, should be a simple ultralight module that perhaps works in reverse of lightweight - Reinforced - Military since each grade increase the effective hull strength by 50%.

- Ultralight: 75% Effective hull
- Lightweight: 100% Effective hull
- Reinforced: 150% Effective hull
- Military: 200% Effective hull

We could go with a -50% effective hull but the gain in reduced weight is abysmal so that would not really feel right.

Weight would be similar in reverse (comparing a Cobra mkIII and the Sidewinder reinforced and military increased hull mass by 8% and 15% each.) So ultralight for a Sidewinder would reduce the mass by 2 tonnes and a Cobra MkIII would reduce mass by 14 tonnes.

 

[Konnivar]

True, should be a simple ultralight module that perhaps works in reverse of lightweight - Reinforced - Military since each grade increase the effective hull strength by 50%.

- Ultralight: 75% Effective hull
- Lightweight: 100% Effective hull
- Reinforced: 150% Effective hull
- Military: 200% Effective hull

We could go with a -50% effective hull but the gain in reduced weight is abysmal so that would not really feel right.

Weight would be similar in reverse (comparing a Cobra mkIII and the Sidewinder reinforced and military increased hull mass by 8% and 15% each.) So ultralight for a Sidewinder would reduce the mass by 2 tonnes and a Cobra MkIII would reduce mass by 14 tonnes.

The mods I'm talking about are the Engineer's modifications. Not overhauling how armor works. They're great suggestions worthy of their very own thread however!