if i had to change scales of anything in this game, I would start with stations and planets that are waaaay too small.. and with it I would expend the size of the systems. Then, to counter balance the "speed of ships / distance that needs to be done" I would higher the speed of ships. And while changing the planets size, I would make it so that when you fly into a planet, it bangs on an invisible wall or it docks .. because the killed by atmosphere thing is totally ugly XD As if ships in that time can't even fly through the atmosphere of a planet and survive it. I mean, we can already do it :crazy:
Then, things would be already better.
But forget it, I doubt highly that anyone is going to put that much effort to do such a thing.. (well.. who knows.. yeah whatever :laugh:)
the problem with this is...if you really think about it, the cruisers and BS were never meant to be *dockable*
If you played SP you will see that most of the bigger ships were meant to berth at norfolk or baltimore...and that a majority of larger ships were unavailable....alot of this could be done....like planet size increase and such if the sourcecode was available to the devs.
another thing that you have to think of, ship wise, is that...if you have a battleship the size of a SSD executor, trying to dock/entering the atmosphere....the sheer stress of reentry could sheer such ships in half....also if you really think about it, Battleships dont just....dock in a building...in real life they sit in the harbors or bay. so if you apply that to FL, then you get giant ships, that are resupplied, and refueled, and such, by shuttles flying to and from bases/planets/stations not said ship docking with one.
Yeah well.. talking about docking with bigger ships.. When I first started playing Freelancer, I was imagining that it would work like they used to do with Corsairs back then.. If you want to go back on the ground, you need to take a smaller ship docked on your battleship and fly to the station/planet.
But yeah, I'm pretty much thinking the same thing.
but... well.. since this is science fiction, you coud imagine that battleships have super hulls and shields that prevents them to be harmed by the atmosphere.
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