Ship Design

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Another query...

Will we be able to design our own ships or will we have to stick with the stock configurations of ships?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
No ship designing, it can't be managed in real time and if paused it would detract from the RTS which is the main aspect of the game. Or something.

Capital ships "level up" and can be upgraded in different ways though.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
No pausing?! What they gonna do, disable the pause button?   

I think pausing would detract from any game that is real time, doesn't mean pausing is generally disabled. I know I've paused the game in God of War many times. Hell, you have to when upgrading your abilities!
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Thats right, no pause! so get yourself a bedpan and some extra food and drinks for them longer games, that take over 2 hours!
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
hiddenrabbit I think your referring to one person pause, like bringing up hte menu

that doesnt stop anything in multiplayer and it doesnt allow you to manipulate your ships in first player. so its not in game pausing.

and like alexand3r said, designing ships is too below the scope to put that much effort into (it would overcomplicate gameplay)
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
It works fine in a TBS (GCII) where battles are calculated with hitpoints and statistics (you can stick a weapon anywhere on a ship and it contributes towards the ships total attack, rather than being an independent weapon). But in an RTS, where firing arcs on ships have to be taken into account (weapons do function independently) ship designing becomes too complicated to both implement and use.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
It seemed to work in Imperium Galactica 2 too.(real time with variable gamespeeds) There can easily be some degree of customisation to your ships. I don't think anyone was expecting a GC level of designing.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
*sticks twenty or so guns on one side of the ship*

oh yeah!
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
It'd should roll over with recoil and be able to fire onto their other side....
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
that would be amazing, I would just create a ship that did nothing but recoil in circles, it would be like a whirling shooting blade of doom.
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
until the guns fired out of sequence...then structural stress might tear it apart
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
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of course the outside guns would have to be massive while the inside ones would have to be pea shooters, to keep structural integrity from failing
until the guns fired out of sequence...then structural stress might tear it apart

dont you think my technology would be enough to sequence sparks to go off at the same time? I sure would hope so... otherwise I wouldnt trust getting into any of my spaceships...