Space Ship Customization

I have a mighty need for this.
Imagine if you could splash red paint all over the hull, add spiky portrusions and barbed wire, maybe a corpse or two...

 

first, sorry bad english
i don't know if someone just say that, in a spaceship station it will be cool to create the ships parts from preassembled parts (and the possibility to find the parts from boss or dungeon or buy them) or create a dedicated editor for the creation of your ship. And by level unlock more rooms and part to ampliate and personalize your ship.

 

Just making the spaceship bigger will do just fine.
I feel like i can't have that much stuff in the ship as it is now.

 

What if there was a way to buy "modules" to upgrade your ship; each one would add a new compartment to your ship and have it's own "back image" so that they blend in properly.

Like say one gives you a large engine room behind the transporter room, two others add a cargo bay and a small compartment with an extend-able boarding tube (for visiting stations or other ships) beneath your starting compartments, one that adds a small room to sleep in above what's now the ship's central corridor, another that replaces your tiny cockpit with a larger bridge proportional to the size the other add-ons are creating. other stuff like that?

 

I like it i agree there should be pre-build modular upgrades for your ship that u can purchase from HI tech vendors.

 

I would love adding rooms and increasing ship, recruiting crew members to come aboard, and serve different functions, like ships cook, or a scanning officer that would add a mini map. Maybe you can bring down crafted beacons. Stuff like that. Have crew members that can mine, and the same for planet stuff too, have citizens that live on your planet mine stuff.

 

Well in theory you'd need to add crew quarters, a mess hall, and a bigger bridge for that, if the ships were modular. cause i can't really see the ship supporting more than 2 crew without more space.

To balance the advantage of crew automating things for you you should be required to keep your mess hall stocked with food your crew can eat, just have a special container built into that room.

 

This needs way more attention. While I love the idea of building a base on a planet, I like my ship to feel like my "home away from home" and in every screenshot/video you can see what people are doing to cleverly squeeze as much space out of the ships' interior. I'd like to not have to make mine look ridiculous with stuff oddly stacked and platforms set up everywhere just to fit some necessities on my ship. Even just the ability to add one or two more "rooms" the size of the main room would be enough for me.

What would also be cool (IMO) would be to add extra/better engines, more of the same kind would cost more fuel but be able to travel faster. And you could upgrade to ones that are more fuel efficient? Possibly at the cost of only being able to use a certain "tier" of fuel or above. I seriously would love to warp between planets nearly instantly, but maybe I'm just weird like that.

 

Well, the reason for that is obvious, you started with a predrawn art image and then added to it with game blocks. If the ships were built with the game blocks in the first place, it wouldn't clash so badly.

Besides, shouldn't it be the players who determine whether something is too clashy or not? I couldn't care less about the predrawn image, you could dispense with it entirely, and I'd be happy. I want a custom block-built ship, the "functional" features like the engine and pilot's station/nav-computer can be furniture items.

On another note, could someone direct me to this quote's origin, I'd like to reply to it directly.

 

agreed, some form of spaceship upgrade needs to happen.even just having the option to add simple rooms to your ship would be awesome. i think a good way to solve the problem in having both customization and asthetics would be to forget the idea of upgrading your ship all together and add in space ports that you can find in each sector that sell entirely new ships. give each ship set stats, say maybe: space,tech and efficiency. space would be ship size, amount of rooms, ect, tech would be how well you teleporter works, how good your nav computer is, ect, and efficiency would be fuel costs, fuel storage, what items it can accept as fuel, ect. from a coding standpoint you could set a maximum total level any given ship could have and then procedurely generate ships at each station much like they do guns.players could then decide that they want to bring their home with them no matter the fuel cost so they would look for a ship with a high space rating, other players may decide that they want to have a large castle back on their home world so they may go for a more efficient ship so they can afford more jumps. they could further control ships power level by having each sector sell the appropriate level of ship.



No idea as to if there are any plans already made as to how they want to have things like a better nav computer, or teleporter, or fuel efficiency or any of that (or if they even were gonna do any of that). And if they do have some of it planned they would have to change it around most likely, but this is just an idea I had that can hopefully inspire bigger and better ideas from the devs

 

I would be awesome if we could attach new sections to the ship as we progress through the game such as, a storage room or basically anything awesome to add to your ship

 

I made this ship myself! It took me a while, but I made this, added several ship storage compartments, and upgraded my fuel to 5000 capacity!

 

That's neat looking but the repeating background patter while being an effective way to cover over the fact that its not hand drawn just doesn't have the same aesthetic appeal as the nicely hand drawn ships we start with. While I do prefer customization over aesthetics I think that there is a better way of providing both an upgrade as well as keeping the visuals at the same level as they are right now.

 

Even the Background could of help ... i Mean ... the background could show, what room you are expanding, or perhaps ... show updated rooms ... better engines or things like this ... SOOO much possibities ;D

The Question is, how should the updgradeprocess look like.
I think, it could be something, what you will get from an quest, wich is showing you first steps, how to upgrade your ship. This first quest is seatled after mhmmm perhaps the second boss?
This quest let's you upgrade something in your already showing shiprooms, let us figure out, perhaps the fueltank, or the storage. You'll have to gather materials for an upgraded storage, wich is able to be used as bank, that you have storage for your own things and for your partymembers and for both.
After this upgrade, it tells you, that there are many more upgrades available, but for upgrading your entire ship, you have to dock into a station, where you could expand your rooms, engines, etc. or even get new ship base frames.
The stations could hold some blueprints to buy for the players, but real cool blueprints you're able to find on mechanical planets, bossmonsters or in wracked spaceships.

Possible blueprints could be:

-Engines: faster traveling
-Fuelstorage: longer voyages
-Mess: Kitchen for cooking everything you need for an good breakfast
-bedder: place to sleep for your Crew
-Bar: Partyroom for dancing after bossfights
-Belly space: more room for more things no one need, but you can't through things away, so ... more room for more things ... ARW!
-Laboratory: storaging DNA of alien races, developing new alloys, place for upgrading your weapons or your own body for using more than one upgrade at the same time ... side effects? What's this? *rrrOoOoaaaAAa*
-Teleporter Station: can be upgraded to let you not only teleport to the same spot everytime. Sometimes ... mostly ... ah ...
-Dojo: space to let your soul flow through body and weapon. And now, KILL THIS DUMMY! *poke*poke*poke*

Bluerprints could differ from the look, their materials, the room sizes, or perhaps some eastereggs, klickable but just funny beeings (did someone say *nodding elvis*?).

Enough for now ... have to ... search ... new iron ... *chop*chop*chop*

best regards

madda

 

Cant wait for that to happen... If it does, That is, Operators! Get on it! Please... I want to put "Problem?" On the side of ship.. What a day... Thou shall be...

 

Any chance you can make these for the other races? when you're done I'll try to split them into sections with back images other than repeats of the default engine room bits.

 

I could probably do it, but this one took me several hours! I mostly learned how to do it because I didn't like any of the other modded ships out there, I wanted room to grow crops too.

Sorry! But if I do have the free time and get bored I might mess with it somemore! Shouldn't take as long now that I know what I'm doing more so than before.

 

Latest updatelist is bringing a good point to us ^^

best regards

madda

 

i think player customization in ships is crucial. we all want to be creative now don't we

 

I think that would be a really cool way to customize your ship, anything that adds to player immersion I am all for.