If you think about it, Limpets are ammunition. They take up literally tons of space. You could easily convert a limpet controller into a hardpoint and change limpets to regular ammunition. Hell, my mining ship would love that.
Odyssey, not for explorers?
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No, i want to add more stuff to do, quests, engineering, reason to travel over long distances.
Maybe your whole ship is grind, for me it certainly was, but it is something that stays and serve you.
We used telescopes to look at Mars for years but it's only by actually going there, and putting rovers down, we were able to map in any great detail. You can use the System Map like a telescope too though. Once you've used FSS you can zoom in to get a low (long distance) quality view of the surface and you can read the materials and possible biologies there. Want to know more? Afraid you'll need to get closer to see. Luckily with faster than light it's not far.
I don't know how many heat sinks you get through, must be a lot? Basic Conductors and Heat Conduction Wiring are both extremely common, Grade 1 materials and best to think of it like stocking up before a camping trip, don't leave until you have a supply with you. Yes you might need to plan your trip to stop at Colonia to restock SOMETIMES .. and same goes for SRV fuel .. but even nuclear submarines need to dock occasionally. Think of it like restocking on food maybe, like they have to do. It's space, wear and tear happens and sometimes - not very often - you need to dock to repair / refuel / rearm.
Hardpoints is kind of interesting and you can fit mining tools for a laugh (taking samples off asteroids). If you don't carry offensive weapons though, proximity mines might put a pirate off your scent when you dock to sell cartographics .. or buy even more heatsinks. In the end all ships can go long distance though. First trip to the top of the galaxy was in Sidewinder years ago but larger ships can fit more equipment and are better suited to it. Opening more internal modules just makes all ships the same though and it's not amazing to get to Beagle Point in an Eagle anymore if you can carry AFMS, heatsinks, repair all in your hardpoints. This is why it's not changed to your idea long time ago I think. o7
- i use alot of heatsinks for example, reasons; flying between two stars, boosting from white dwarf (once per 2 months?), fuelscooping at maximum rate, then jumping out when ship is not cooled, maybe high G takeoffs, landings without FA on high G, atmospheric landings? - not yet found high G planet, i did not tryed out yet.
- i can't plan my trip into Colonia. Well i can, but that means atleast 50 000 ly trip. Yes, flight carriers in my case help, but i cannot load more than 3 (+150 already have) there. If i run out of those, there's no way to get them. I don't understand why. You cannot swap them. Yes i got it, most people in the black are long distance travellers, going to Beagle and back = game done, but if you live in black you will get annonyed that you cannot get those by yourself. Im not suggesting it to be "free" on a carriers like limpets.
- i don't think you can change small ship so much with opening hardpoints to internal modules, they can carry only one or two extra stuff for srv, repair, shield, limpets, cargo rack ,guardian booster, scanner, or flight/landing computer that's it. Heatsink, defense points those are utility mounts.
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In short.. for heatsinks.. i am staying far from any station, any occupied system, that's why i want to have a way to synthesize heatsinks from materials i can get out there.
Im affraid you ll never get those fantastic things, my change is small and simple to extend small ship loadout for optional modules.
For example my ship has only one hardpoint, that way i can add smallest afmu, when i already have only scoop, srv, shield, supercruise assist, guardian booster, and surface scannet.
My point is it turns medium ships into big ships. As I pilot I get it, you want your favourite ship to be able to do everything, I get it. But for a game I think it's better for each ship to have some advantage, some disadvantage. This idea takes away all disadvantage because all ships can carry everything.
Seriously, just stock up on synthesis materials.
I already have them, no worries.
That is exactly what the FSS is (note the levels of zoom)!
IDK, I rather like the planetary scanning. It is like a mini-game that tests your skill. Can you hit the target number? Most of the time. Still having issues with the big gas giants and their 20+ probes, but 6 or 7, easy peasy. 8+ gets challenging.
None of these requires a single heatsink if done right. Also you already can refill the heatsinks in flight anyway (as pointed above multiple times)
was quite confused how to change my suit but found lobby interface and was up and running but I think this idea would be worth checking out. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/mod-oriented-dlc.590542/
this post gave me a stroke
I think the most useful change for me would be an overlay on the planet's surface map of the life heatmap so that you can swap to a different species without having to go into orbit to find them. That is a daft feature for sure. As if in the 33rd century a map made from orbit will be forgotten when you are on the deck.
I would also like a low altitude skimmer- a flying SRV for those really rocky places where the fungoids live.
I would also like a low altitude skimmer- a flying SRV for those really rocky places where the fungoids live.