I thinks it's great having the ability to own multiple ships, this means we can have specific ships kitted out for the task at hand, Type 7 for heavy trading and Cobra for bounty hunting for example but I think the ability to change ship should be tweaked a bit.
Currently you have to return to where your ship is stored every time you want to change, not a big problem if you're just trading / fighting / traveling in a few hundred LY's radius but what about when it comes to long distance exploring?
If I kit out a light weight, long hop ship specially tooled up for long distant exploration and head off into the black everything will be fine for awhile but once I've traveled a few thousand LY's or more and need funds either by trading or bounty hunting I'm going to have to travel all the way back to change ship to raise funds and head out again ... ? That doesn't appeal to the explorer in me.
I suppose one option or work-around would be for me to sell everything i have and go exploring with all my assets liquidised then re-buy later when I'm deep in space if i'm lucky enough to find some stations selling the ships i want but it doesn't sound ideal.
Starting the game with an option to pick which ship location to start in would also be an option but maybe that's too easy ... I'm thinking out loud here as I type ... I haven't explored more than a few hundred LY's yet but am intending to do long distance exploration so these are just a few thoughts that occur to me before heading out.
Any thoughts commanders ? am I missing an option somewhere ?
Currently you have to return to where your ship is stored every time you want to change, not a big problem if you're just trading / fighting / traveling in a few hundred LY's radius but what about when it comes to long distance exploring?
If I kit out a light weight, long hop ship specially tooled up for long distant exploration and head off into the black everything will be fine for awhile but once I've traveled a few thousand LY's or more and need funds either by trading or bounty hunting I'm going to have to travel all the way back to change ship to raise funds and head out again ... ? That doesn't appeal to the explorer in me.
I suppose one option or work-around would be for me to sell everything i have and go exploring with all my assets liquidised then re-buy later when I'm deep in space if i'm lucky enough to find some stations selling the ships i want but it doesn't sound ideal.
Starting the game with an option to pick which ship location to start in would also be an option but maybe that's too easy ... I'm thinking out loud here as I type ... I haven't explored more than a few hundred LY's yet but am intending to do long distance exploration so these are just a few thoughts that occur to me before heading out.
Any thoughts commanders ? am I missing an option somewhere ?
