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Spacetravel - FTL or not

SpaceCat

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Shouldn't a spacevessel be able to travel to at least the moons of a planet without FTL?

Or to a neighbour planet that is traveling on a near orbit in a solar system?

Or or generally inside a solar system without FTL?

Would make exploring a bit more imaginative and tactical ...

DurkyTurkey

Can see Some ways that non FTL would open the door to different events and all to interact with you during the travel. outside that kind of gateway to more content being put in as a massive change though, what imaginitive or tactical experience are you seeing that would outweigh the game incongruity of long time spans in space being skipped over?
More importantly though and from games pov, what would be replacing the additional challenge for players in getting those extra FTL charges? If theres taking away part of the game, whats the positive change, rather than just a hey lets change this?

SpaceCat

DurkyTurkey what imaginitive or tactical experience are you seeing

It would be an additional player choice to get FTL earlier or later - or not at all for some ships that are not intended for deep space travel.

Right now it is: get FTL in first "stage" always.

DurkyTurkey If theres taking away part of the game, whats the positive change

NOT thinking about completely taking away FTL at all!
Thinking about how to make it more dynamic.

Ofc all of this will drastically change anyway when NPC's learn to travel and you will have to place ships/fleets/stations on the map to protect certain sectors - i would imagine

(Keeping in mind that "bouny hunter" was supposed to just be a placeholder.)

cheers

Dibs

Yeah, planetary system travel should be doable (moons), solar travel (other planets) not so much as it would take too long. You could propose a mid-day part is made specifically for travel within a solar system, with FTL drives then being pushed into a more specific role of getting you to other solar systems only.

Such a part could be as simple as boost rockets connected to an engineering room to make a "epstein drive" effect for a more FTL fuel efficient travel. But Im not convinced that such a niche is necessary

Lafiel

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RedAndCosmoteer

Lafiel There could be a solution, a drive specifically designed to cross the vast distances between planets. Energy-hungry as a balancing feature (so if you would like to stick it on a small ship, prepare for said small ship to become a dynamite stick) but fast.