Coupling: Can be placed between blocks like a door. Coupling can attach to and detach from corridor and structure. Allowing lager ships to be built in parts.
Hinges: Hinges attach to corners of ship parts allowing up to 270 degrees of rotational motion. Hinges would be able to be used in tandem to coupling allowing large sections of ship to swing to and fro.
Boarding: Using couplings, hinges, and tractor beams, boarding would be possible. If player 1’s ship opens and connects to an exposed corridor or structure of player 2’s ship, player 2 can either fight off the enemy or lose the ship. Self-destruct is another option for player 2 but only if the control room is still operational. If player 1 takes the ship, repairs can be made, and the ship switches allegiance. Player 1 still cannot save the ship design.
Armory: Armory rooms would come in two varying sizes, to provide gear and weapons for a certain number of crewmembers, 4 and 8 for example. The weapons would be held like the fire extinguishers but have a different spite. In the boarding scenario player 1 would regret attempting to board if player 2 had enough armory rooms. Armed personnel can kill 4 regular crew members. Normal crew members can only kill one crew member and they die in the process.
Outside of creative mode, Self-destruct should only work if the control room is operational.
Each additional rail-gun accelerator module should increase the range of a rail gun by 3%. It is possible to make a long rail gun, but the gun’s range is not much longer than the gun itself. I am aware that in attempt to balance weapons, a weapon cannot be superior to others. Adding this feature would require a lot of checks and balances.
Thank you for your consideration and time.
Boarding Mechanics.
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Admiral_G
Welcome to the forum and congratulations you are the 1029384th person to suggest boarding, before making any suggestions id suggest you look through other suggestions on the forum and look at the trello https://trello.com/cosmoteer
Trust mean, if you think of it Walt or the thousand's of other players already though of it
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I agree that there is nothing new. That being said, I searched Trello and didn't find anything to do with boarding in Cosmoteer suggestions page. If this is a witty way of writing me off, well done. I am still somewhat surprised that over 1 million people would make the recommendation and there still is not even a card for it in Trillo. Perhaps Walt simply hates the idea. LMAO
Either way, no hard feelings.
On average boarding and similar terms come up at least once a day on the forum as well as on discord.
Just use the search function and you'll see and example from 2016: https://forum.cosmoteer.net/d/84-some-cool-things-to-add-xenolurker-aka-flynn
Same goes for the next top 1000 suggestions.
Admiral_G https://trello.com/c/tifRV7ic/1-docking
No trust me its on there just falls under "Docking" and Boarding is such a common suggestion that on the discord if you even just say the word a bot will leave a link to the trello, and no im not trying to be rude, just being over dramatic as boarding is by far the most common suggestion that its a meme at this point
Thank you all! That clears everything up. Now I can go to sleep not thinking that I am a bug on a windshield. I'm sure I will love the official release and future updates. I was introduced to this game in 2020 and it has gotten me through the pandemic.
Jared I looked a little more thoroughly in Trillo and found almost all of my ideas marked with royal blue. Thank you for the link. 