Launching Bays " Who said there's just one ship ! "

Riscant

All right, so, I've always wanted to be able to do this in Cosmoteer.
This would be a 3x by 3x block. Upon entering combat, it would launch 2 mini ships. There would be 3 types of launching bays. The "Blaster Bay" which would spawn 2 mini ships with 2 laser blasters (20000 credits) with each ship being worth 7.5 k credits, "Electro Bay" which would spawn 2 miniships with 2 electro bolts (22000 credits) each of them being worth 8.5k credits. Lastly, the "Ion Bay" which would spawn 2 Miniships with 1 Ion Beam (30k credits). If the ships are destroyed or damaged, they can't be rebuilt until the main ship exits combat. They are repaired reported to their cost. Of course, all of these values can be changed, I was just going more in-depth. So, what do you think?

Jared

Riscant
Carriers are already on the trello

Oneye

Riscant https://trello.com/c/I83u6gG0/64-fighters-fighter-bays-and-carrier-ships You could also just make your own fighters and detach them from your ship using explosive charges.

Dumb

Riscant the bay varients may restrict people's creativity cuz they can't make their own fighter,but over all hangers is a good idea so thats why its already suggested in trello

Rougechicken

Dumb I agree with dumb we should be able to make our own fighters and launch them from the bay

Riscant

I do think we should be able to make our own fighters but I just thought it would be a little messy. The best option would be to introduce miniature ship parts for the small ships.

Jared

Riscant but that would go against the whole style of cosmoteer where you build your own ship and make them unique its not hard to make a good small fighter in vanilla

Riscant

Jared Yes you can make a small fighter but imagine how big the fighter bay would have to be to hold 1 or more ships

Riscant

Jared And I was saying if we COULD make our own mini ships to put in hangars, there should be mini parts for them. For example, a mini ship armor block would be 1/4 size of a normal armor block. This would apply to all other parts. Of course, their efficiency would be degraded as well. What I have in mind is have many ships accompany you and flank the enemy from all directions, small and fast to dodge everything. Of course, you could make them however you'd like, hell, you can make them blocks of armor and nothing else simply to spawn them around you and let them take the damage instead of your main ship.

Jared

Riscant
image https://i.imgur.com/9nIw18Y.png
I don't know about you but this a pretty damn small carrier with 6 fighters if it wasent for the thruster deadzone i could probably fit more and im assuming that with the hanger bays that wouldn't be an issue so you could have them perfectly side by side

Oneye

Riscant Did you even look at the Trello? it's all there! everything you are saying is planned! (almost)

G4L4XY

Riscant You could try using ABH (warning, mod huge), or Gibby's single part ships/hangar mod for hangars.

Riscant

Jared To be clear, my hangars would be one of two ways. Either a 4 by 4 room where you assign 1 or more small ships, depending on size, or a 4 by 4 block which could be connected to other hangars making a bigger hangar to hold more ships in the same big hangar, here not having to make miniature ships.

Riscant

Well, I was envisioning a ship that isn't entirely made from hangars. As you can see, those hangars are really big. The fighting bay would've been WAY smaller in my version. As I said, small fast ships. This is the same as just putting a few more ships in the battle, which could be done if more slots would be added to the max ship count in multiplayer. The only difference would be that you'd have a big mama ship from which those other ships would come out. The ships that came out of the hangar are supposed to be fighters, ships around 50-150 k. Again, this is just what I thought it would look like. We were talking about this subject without actually deciding what the hangar would look like.

Riscant

Oneye I did look at the trello, realized it was a thing too late, the discussion started. And about the ion thingy, it's not like the lasers scheduled for the next patches