Your Spaceship- Upgrades, a Space Station room and More!

I think that you should always be able to upgrade your spaceship, and be open to get a new one. The space station should have several docking ports, and possibly you should be able to get more. The first spaceship you get should not be very good. It should have a weak engine, making it slow, 1 small cockpit, allowing 1 passenger as well as you, the driver. It should also have a basic turret.

Making parts
I think that making parts should have some difficulty involved. You have a special room in your space station for engineering, in which you need special tools to work with. You will begin with basic tools, and later your will accumulate better tools. The spaceships will be upgraded in, and the parts made in, a room in the space station called the engineering workshop. The spaceship will also be repaired there. Making parts will take about 1/2 a minute per part, and then putting these parts onto a spaceship will take many times more that long.
Upgrades:
Engines:
You should start off with a small engine, but when you have the right tools, you should be able to upgrade it to increase speed
Small engine: This should give you a little speed, and if a boost function is used, it would not last very long. It has a small size, so it can go into small vehicles.
Double engine: This gives double the amount of speed as a small engine and double the boost length, and even better, still only a small size. The problem is, it needs double the amount of fuel to run, and is hard to make.
Medium engine: This should be the same as a double engine, just with a medium size. It should be easier to aquire than a double engine.
Triple engine: This gives triple of everything of the small engine. It is medium size and is very hard to acquire.
Large engine: This is about as good as a triple engine, but needs a large engine hold, so not very many spaceships can have this. It is easier to acquire than a triple engine, but harder than than a medium engine.
Quad engine: The best engine of all, needs a large hold. The rest is self explanatory.
Quantum engine: About as good as a triple engine, but only needs a small hold. It is about as hard to get as a quad engine.
All engine effects stack.
Turrets:
Some turret ideas are here: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/equipables-for-vehicles-and-mounts.299/ they would not work well in space
Ideas for space turrets:
Laser turret: No knockback, fires like a laser gun in terraria.
Plasma turret: Shoots massive plasma balls with great amounts of knockback

 

More to come!

 

looks nice!
do you think we'll be buying most upgrades, or building them with resources?
i'm guessing a mixture of the two.

 

Kinda like Mass effect did the Normandy SR-2 Upgrades? I would like that, giving you perks like extra health or health regen for a limited time after you leave your spacestation.

 

Upgradeable shields and maybe cloaking devices would be something nice, too.

 

Interesting and effective concept indeed, This could modify the speeds/Distance your ship can Travel all over the galaxy.

 

Some sort of sensor package would also be cool, for scanning planets and such.

 

maybe some security features. I'd like to see "bandits" come and attempt to attack and steal from my ship. Add security cameras and alarms, sentries, maybe even Mech. Guard dogs. =P

 

Some of these would only be useful if space combat was in the game. I'm crossing my fingers that it's not, though.

However, something like the planet scanner that was suggested above would be useful.

 

If the spaceship looked anything like

From Ratchet and Clank, I'd love it so much.

 

Cool ideas, I would like multiple spaceships too but I didn't like the engines or the turrets you proposed. Mind if I make a suggestion about spaceship making and upgrading? *cough*doingitanyways*cough*

 

lol why not im ur customer. But you never did what asked you to do... Meh, do it anywayz

 

That would definitely be badass if it were implemented. Now all we need to know is if we're even able to fly spaceships through space...

 

Maybe a hangar, to build little drones, which you could take with you on your planet trips!

 

[quote="TehEpikMonk, post: 12868, member: 671"]Some of these would only be useful if space combat was in the game. I'm crossing my fingers that it's not, though.
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what is wrong with space combat? it is just another biome among the others.

 

Yes, that is what I mean. If you are in space using space ships would be effective. So, why is using spaceships to shoot enemy ships(probably pretty rare considering there would have to be an advanced enough society in that near-by area) a problem?

 

I think this is a great idea! It would be awesome to customize your ship and choose where to parts go. Full support

 

I'm a sucker for spaceships.. Espescially starfighters. I have many ideas on the subject.

But now that i think about it, i think i'll wait to voice those ideas. We really need to know how space is going to be handled before anything can be REALLY be conceptualized properly.

QUICK, EVERYONE!! to the "Ask a Question" thread!!!

 

It would add a lot of customization, I would love to be able to customize something that seems like it will be extremely important in the game.

 

i'd like to be able to build one of the GINORMOUS ships like in Iain M. Bank's books, which can hold your spacestation and move it around (this would be something for players with tons and tons of spare resources with nothing to build) they'd be so big they could have a weak atmosphere and life on their hulls.