What if we could make our spacecraft or have a smaller craft docked to our main craft, be able to enter the atmosphere of a planet, and be able to fire weapons such as lasers, cannons, and machine guns. In order to enter the atmosphere they would need a heat shield made of impervium to have the ships survive reentry. They could also mount mining beams to increase mine materials and such. Also they could mount tractor beams to pick up items dropped and possibly monsters. It would require addons to a ship to use these weapons and only some can be mounted at a time. Also the materials needed to craft the weapons and various materials would be incredibly expensive and require very late game items and resources.
The mining beams would double as a tractor beam, picking up items. And did I mention this would be VERY late game? And expensive? Does that sound more appealing?
That makes more sense but I feel like it kind of detracts from the point of the game which is exploring, not just flying around taking everything in a second.
I'm not sure I agree with reentry, but I would like orbital mining of some description for very late end game. I have a super powerful spaceship that can cross the distance between stars, yet I have to go down and manually mine my materials? Nope.
