My Idea For Docking Ports:
I would love to see docking ports being added to the game, This would make ships connect to each other, and also detach from another, which could lead in ships seperating without explosives.
With docking ports you can have ship parts that move to a certain location and connect to the main ship and than connect them so they dont move away when you move to a certain location. I've got a lot of ideas for ships with these docking ports and i think many other got ideas for ships with docking ports aswell.
I think that the cosmoteer community could make really unique ships with this.
Idea's for the docking ports:
- Make docking ports able to be put on wedges and 1x2 wedges.
- Make certain sizes, for example 1x1 and 2x1 and maybe 4x2 for really large ships
- Small magnets on the docking port so docking will be easier
- Make crew able to walk agross a certain type of docking port which is more expensive as the normal one.
Ofcourse this is all quite overpowerd to just make ships that are already large, even larger. So i have an idea to make it quite balanced. The docking port has to have a certain amount of HP but if it gets below 50% HP than the docking port is "Broken" and cant connect. Already connected docking ports will detach.
If this is still op than these docking ports can be more balanced by adding momentum on the docking ports, if there is to much thrust on one side of the docking port but to little on the other side it will start taking demage and sepperate once below 50% hp.
These 2 Ideas would make a good ship have to have more than 1 docking port for stronger connection for a heavy ship not to break and for more protection against incoming fire.
Edit:
I made a video to show my idea, its low quality as i am not good at editing but i think it was alright (A big mistake after i edited the whole thing is that the sides wont be powered as the docking port is connected to armor...)
This is the link to the video:
