Like this idea. I do have a question about the selection of attributes. Do you pick them when you build each ship, or can you choose them when you use them? Can become a coding nightmare either way.

Maybe what would be better is if you had to build this as an attachment to all your ships so say.

Battle cruisers.

15% + Shield on all - 20,000,000 metal, crystal 12,500,000, Deut 10,500,000
10 Rapid fire - 50,000,000 - Crystal 30,000,000, deut 10,500,000
10% Damage increase
10% Shield increase
10% Speed increase
Rapid Fire against RIP ___
Rapid Fire against All Defense ___
Rapid Fire against Cargo Ships ___
10% metal increase
10% crystal increase
10% deutinium increase
20% Resource storage space

(Everyone being unlocked also by research before you can then buy the upgrade on a max of three per ship type)

And so on, so each ship has possible selections but you have to pay for them in res and wait 3hr - 24hr something like that for the add.

Maybe if it was done that way with a maximum of 3 upgrades on each ship type only that would be a good way to do it.

The mechanics hopefully wouldnt be as difficult.

You could only have 1 flag ship. The attributes are chosen after the ship is built. The ship would have its own tab on the menu. You choose the three and those are there forever. If the ship is defeated then you can choose a new three.

It would have to be a ship type not a ship because that is just to much work and the calculators would be a mess.

Mine is a simplified method above and brings in your ideas and incoporates them in a way to make it work

Hmmm

KarrothMelu wrote:

Seth1483 wrote:i could have sworn that I've seen something like this before but couldn't find it even 10 pages back

Other related idea:

Carriers/Flagships

Found it on page 3

i know but i didnt think it was exactly relevant to this idea as they are distinctly different.

EDIT: also I'm sad to say this but fishpond's right the calculators would explode and kill the programmers and we don't want that.

15% + Shield on all - 20,000,000 metal, crystal 12,500,000, Deut 10,500,000
10 Rapid fire - 50,000,000 - Crystal 30,000,000, deut 10,500,000

Sorry for not quoting fishpond.

Is this how much it costs to get these? If so, It kind of sounds like rubies.

That would create an insanely massive research tree.

Yeah i know, but how good would that be Ista

It would be something more the the people who like research points, and add a whole lot bigger diversity to fleeting. But viability to actually be implemented? I don't think so. There are loads of hiccups it would create that you need to consider, a big one I can think of off the top of my head: How would the Espionage Report display all this new research? And if it didn't, you would have people flying around with tons of random buffs you have no idea they have, basically created a random outcome for a lot of battles, rendering strategy and simulation useless.

Good idea, but imo a research-tree style addition to each ship type is a little too complex for the current game backbone to carry.