Love the game!
I would love to see variants of the various weapons and perhaps defense rooms/parts that expose their capabilities on the exterior/roof of your ship designs. IE: cannons, lasers, launchers, point defense that can be built in the middle of your ship designs that have a 180deg or 360deg firing arc and are visible from the exterior view on the "roof" of your ship. This avoids piling up all your weapons and defenses on the "edge" of your ship designs.
If anyone knows of prior discussions on this idea let me know. Search isn't giving me much.
I very much enjoy the ship design and building aspect of cosmoteer however I'm starting to notice that because weapons and defense parts can only be placed on the outer edge of your ship, designs tend to fall into two categories:
- Wall of fire: all weapons and defenses are placed one side of the ship and the battle strategy is to simply stay pointed at your enemy
- Cube / Triangle of fire: weapons and defenses are placed on multiple sides and the general strategy is to change your orientation to the enemy as one side's offensive/defensive capability gets worn away.
Of course choosing to build weapons and defense in the middle of your ship entails some type of trade-off mechanic of either range, damage, reload, or health etc.
Since current weapons MUST hit enemy ships from the edge inward currently, I suppose weapons can traverse the exterior of a enemy's ship ONLY if the exterior weapon/defense part is being targeted
Thoughts?