Minion222 Wouldn't be as rewarding as conquering entire solar systems
I think this is mostly a personal taste thing. Some players will find conquering a galaxy rewarding, others will find building the perfect ship of their dreams rewarding. I think those both sound like really fun things, I just think that the ship-designing aspect of Cosmoteer fits better with the latter.
It also depends on what the ultimate objective of Option 1 is.
Minion222 It would allow for bigger amount of ships in-game (if they would be rendered like JBox suggested, which i'm all for)
What jbox suggests is actually how BH already works. If you jump out of a sector and leave the ships behind, they basically get saved in stasis and aren't simulated until your return.
From a technical perspective, there's no difference in how many ships the game can support and still run well. From a design perspective, sure, the player would have fewer ships in total, though not necessarily fewer in any given area.
I don't think this is true, there's no reason Option 1 can't have huge fights.
Minion222 Faction specific designs, what i mean by that is certain factions would have ships based on some form of weapons, so one would have energy only, one would have some more AOE ones and stuff like that, then we could also make a faction with a secific movement type, like diagonal, boosting, or even cube-like. We could also have structure based designs, more runded ones, fast yet weak ones, and slow strong ones, the basic pro-con designs
I think this would work well with both options.
Kontra This is a multiplayer idea that could be incorporated into single player, but a Planetside 2/For Honor player campaign idea, where you attempt to control sectors of the galaxy. But rather than being an admiral of a fleet as in option 2, you commandeer a smaller fleet and go on missions given by a contractor if you wish to be a mercenary fleet of some sorts in an effort to help the war effort.
This is a lot like what I have in mind for Option 1. Depending on which factions you go on missions for, their territory changes. Eventually, you could help a faction conquer the whole galaxy if that's what you choose.
