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Behold! Explosive reactive armour:

Haven't got much else to show off because I've been busy with exams and major changes to Ammo Factories aren't going so well.

5 days later

I think this is a great idea!

Of course, I would very much like to have the ability to build + - custom production systems for example ammunition. Make a ship-by-ship system for transporting and feeding ammunition to the guns.Radiators for guns to fire more easily or something like that. Also... I do not know how to do this correctly, but I think it would not hurt to be able to make upgraded weapons.Highly elongated laser, gun, etc. I think especially for larger ships is not enough firepower. They need main guns that match their size. Why do I even need this huge platform of shields, engines, and guns, if I can't shoot beyond a microscopic ship

    18 days later

    Don't talk to me or my Son ever again.

    Sensors got a bit complicated

    Control Room: 200 Sensor Range
    Auxiliary Control Room: 100 Sensor Range
    Large Sensor Array (Only works with Control Room placed): 1200 Sensor Range
    Small Sensor Array (Control Room placed): 400 Sensor Range (Vanilla range)
    Small Sensor Array (Auxiliary Control Room placed): 300 Sensor Range
    No Control room: 25 Sensor Range

    Ultranova What's annoying about this?

      Roasted you can only have one control room. I limited control rooms, which is why the Aux Control Room exists. If your Control room dies, you cannot use Sensor Arrays, you can only use the Small Sensor Array, but Small Sensor arrays have a shorter sensor range when using Auxiliary Control rooms. When combined with Walts planned sensor system, this will only get worse.

      17 days later

      My ideas, if not suggested already:

      • Shield barriers that touch stuff (including your own ship) should damage any touching parts as it drains itself.
      • EMPs should kill crew and fry equipment until repair. Should also be utterly stopped by armour besides the kinetic damage of the impacting missile.
      • Nukes should be smaller. There's no practical reason to keep them gigantic unless it's some strange future hyper bomb or something.
      • Power lines. Crew carried batteries for main systems is ridiculous from a realistic perspective.
      • Decompression.
      • Thrusters should have a huge exclusion zone.
      • Vanilla laser blasters should equate to plasma accelerators. Bouncing beams of extremely focused light is nowhere near deadly enough to be useful.
      • Change those sci fi railgun particles into something different. A tracer or something maybe,
      • Ion beams should be invisible.
      • Electro bolters should either be removed or extremely short range. The electricity won't fly if it has nothing to attract to, if not its own ship.
      • Mines should not have lights and should be largely invisible to longer range sensors.
      • Point defence can probably stay (as an anti boarding shuttle or mine weapon) but they should become utterly useless against missiles and cannons.
      • Cannon slugs should get s p e e d.
      • Reactor explosions should be bigger.
      • Radiation should be emitted from damaged reactors.
      • Insufficient air conditioning/heating should equal death.
      • Moderately damaged weapons should have increasing chances of jamming or discharging prematurely.
      • Crew should get tired.
      • Structure should get absolutely melted by laser weapons unless it's some kind of diffusing structure. Would probably be a bit more effective against slower kinetics and missiles, though.
      • Although somewhat dangerous, all engines should be boostable.
      • Remove windows except those installed for vanity purposes.
      • Dedicated weapon loading and maintenance crew.
      9 days later

      i would like if you could destroy ships with asteroids, like in the expanse.

      • Edited

      Squidson69
      ramming damage is buggy enough when modded in so it’s unlikely I would assume plus asteroids don’t spawn natural last I played

      Squidson69 When ramming is added I'll make sure it's added to asteroids.

        ResExsention Thrusters should have a huge exclusion zone.

        ok I like that one lol

          MadStar @ResExsention I've actually had that implemented for quite a while, the 2way and 3way thrusters were a pain to do.

            5 days later

            btw one more idea

            laser point defence

            long range, invisible burst laser that makes missiles go pew pew; minimal damage to hulls

            won't be long until hundred missile salvos become the (realistic) meta...

            ResExsention And how would you balance that in a logical way?

            ResExsention eh not a huge fan of the idea without some significant drawbacks.

              Reactors will eventually run out of power, and you have to replace it with a new one.

              Reactors make lemon juice and don't power anything, just like how Walt wanted

              Roasted I thought this went specifically for realism?

              Somewhat high inaccuracy might be the best way to balance a long range laser PD, honestly. Logically the targetting computer would compensate for lightspeed delay and attempt to lead a target but aside from giving missiles some wacky guidance this seems to be the next simplest option.

              Zin01 Maybe the fusion core only.

                ResExsention I thought this went specifically for realism?

                It's more incorporating levels of realism in order to make the game annoying to play, hence the name of the mod being "Annoyingly Realistic Cosmoteer", not just "Realistic Cosmoteer"

                Ultranova Is it possible to make vanilla parts burn out or overheat?