What if while traveling to a distant planet there is a small chance to find another ship. This is my suggest. Space battles. When traveling to a planet there is about a 20% chance to encounter enemy ships full of space pirates or something? When you discover them you can either take control of your ship and fight them with your big guns on the ship in an all out space battle. Or... You can put on your own space suit and go board the ship with your space grapple. Defeat the enemies on the ship and kill the captain to defeat them and activate the self destruct sequence and get away before the timer runs out. And boarding the pirate ship should get you some goodies like some pirate armor or some pirate technology to use on your ship or research it. But doing a ship battle should also get you something like some space pirate metal from the ship. Also you should have a small chance of finding an abandoned space pirate ship. You can explore it and get the space pirate logs from some places like the bridge or research area and plug it into your language translator on the spacestation to find out what happened. Maybe adding a quest. They should only start happening when you starting going to about threat level 20 planets since you don't want this happening when you go out for your first time with nothing... (Sorry if this idea is a bit bland I'm not use to writing suggestions to a game that I haven't seen gameplay of yet.)
I like this a lot. Increases the risks of just going out. And, to add to this, maybe there could be alien invasions in which alien factions would build their homes and try to kick you out (this has sort of been referenced by devs, I believe). ~ockpii
Huh I like that. Kinda like what they said they would do about terraria with the factions coming but never did... Also I added a self destruct switch to the pirate ship. Tell me what you think.
Pretty cool idea there, I really hope space is a place you can explore. Not just planets.. there's plenty of space between them for, space battles, constructed sites, or even things like asteroids and rouge planets, and things like that... Would suck to waste an opportunity to have all the cool space stuff. On top of the expected planetary interaction.