any unstructured FL mods?

[Ursus]

Freelancer and the Discovery mod in particular are very structured, with distinct classes that are specifically balanced towards each other. It's not a problem, its a legitimate way to do things, and it seems to work pretty well.

But there is a lot of interesting things that can be done if you didn't have classes at all, just hulls with a bunch of cargo space and hard points that can be filled out so that the ship is optimized for your specific desires. Imagine a BWT with 12 hard points and 3600 cargo, and its up to you to make it into a cargo ship, a cruiser, or a hybrid smuggler. Discovery does *some* stuff like this now, like with armor using up cargo, but other games have done things like use thrusters on hardpoint mounts to improve turning agility (and give up guns for it), add external equipment like IFF decoder on a hardpoint, and so forth. In the context of Freelancer it would be something like make CDs into formal missiles that use a forward-facing hardpoint, make CM droppers into turrets that you mount along the side hardpoints, and so forth etc. This isn't really feasible in Discovery because of the heavy class-based balance system (battleships cant have CD, large transports cant have CM, and so forth).

Just wondering if any other mods have gone down this road and if it "worked" or not.

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