Last post for today, promise.
I feel there should be more NPC ships out there in the game, let me explain. I know there's NPC ships in the game, they make up the vast bulk of the ships you encounter in the game, what I'm suggesting is a few more variations, for example: A transporter type NPC, in a purposely designed type shuttle/ship. There used to be one in the Amiga 500 version of of Elite, you'd see it leave the station and head towards the surface of the planet the station was orbiting and then when it got to atmosphere it would vanish, meaning it was now heading down to the ground.
You wouldn't be able to buy these ships either, but you could if you wanted intercept them, steal cargo, or passengers, or even just destroy them.
For planetary bases, at the moment if a patrol is going to happen, it's either a Viper MkIII or an Eagle, how about a proper fighter type ship that was present in the Frontier games, actually looking similar to current day fighter jets?
Small additions like this just make the game a little bit more varied instead of the same old rinse and repeat. Yeah I know there's the mega ships out there and other such things but I'm talking on a similar scale to our own ships, that can be interacted instead of just scanning and getting communication logs.
Thoughts?
I feel there should be more NPC ships out there in the game, let me explain. I know there's NPC ships in the game, they make up the vast bulk of the ships you encounter in the game, what I'm suggesting is a few more variations, for example: A transporter type NPC, in a purposely designed type shuttle/ship. There used to be one in the Amiga 500 version of of Elite, you'd see it leave the station and head towards the surface of the planet the station was orbiting and then when it got to atmosphere it would vanish, meaning it was now heading down to the ground.
You wouldn't be able to buy these ships either, but you could if you wanted intercept them, steal cargo, or passengers, or even just destroy them.
For planetary bases, at the moment if a patrol is going to happen, it's either a Viper MkIII or an Eagle, how about a proper fighter type ship that was present in the Frontier games, actually looking similar to current day fighter jets?
Small additions like this just make the game a little bit more varied instead of the same old rinse and repeat. Yeah I know there's the mega ships out there and other such things but I'm talking on a similar scale to our own ships, that can be interacted instead of just scanning and getting communication logs.
Thoughts?