Something that could be done for 4.50 mid-size patch?
Combat related:
- Medium turret re-balance (analog to 3.0 Large turret rebalance)
- Missile turrets re-balance (especially make more distinction between medium and large ones)
- Missile rebalance (you need hundreds missiles to take out a station in L/XL ships, while Torpedos are only available to S/M ships).
- Make Missile-defence automatic (currently it's manual chore) - something like in X3 where turrets shoot at missiles when they don't have any other target.
- While Xenons are good for IS, more often than not I see them completely sux at OOS.
- we have interceptor command since 3.0, yet we still missing the bomber command.
- can we finaly have working formations? I mean the only time ships stay at selected formation is if the leader stay still. During the movement, patrol and combat there is no formation and whole group is streached through half the sector
- can we get rid of infinite minefields in some sectors, but instead make normal minefields, that work OOS? Currently minefields are rather useless. Setting minefields would be great mechanics for pirates as well as proper generic mission for player to clear them.
GUI related:
- add combat computer update that HIGHLIGHT important components and allow quick scroll throug them, like Large turrets (the feature is already there, but for some reason it's only in Tutorial).
- ability to mass deploy deployables (e.g. mines).
- can we have formation visualization in encyclopedia?
Station interiors:
- Can we GET RID of the plant in front of faction representative desk?
- We have only Argon Nova hologram - could we actually have race related holograms? Like Paranid stations display Perseus, Terran station display Kukri etc.
- Same with Teladi Falcon sculpture - we could have more sculptures for each race station.
- can we actually have more NPC spawn in stations? All stations I visited never had more than a few NPC, they are ghost towns (and I cheked, they have ample workforce).
- There are plot related interiors that are only used ONCE and then discarted - couldn't they by reused for HQ interiors? In Split DLC we have "throne room" and "prison". In Terran DLC we have secret service command room. Not to mention Bar, which is most climatic interior, yet it's missing in HQ.
QoL changes:
- ability to switch off ships holding all actions when player teleport/takeover ship control - the one that I always have to comm ship pilot and tell him "continue current order".
This is completely useless and irritating - If I happen to have ship leaving me behind and I don't have teleport, I can simply call it back to return to me, I absolutely don't need for the ship to wait for me EVER!
Game Mechanics:
- escape pods - so player could save some of trained NPCs from lost ships. In the same time you could take prisoners from enemy ships (hint! That prison room from Split DLC would come in handy!) where you could exhange them for money or information on enemy stations (e.g. their shipyard/wharf location).
- Diplomacy - we have war option, but we don't have "make peace/surrender" option. We should be able to force faction to surrender if we completely dominate them (e.g. we force them to make peace with us), or if we are loosing we should be able to surrender too (e.g. they would take our stations and sectors, depending on how badly we were loosing).
New content:
- Teladi missing 4-gun fighter.
- Xenon missing Carrier, L-size destroyer, M-size Frigate, L-size Freighter/miner, separate combat drone model (they are using same drone like eveyone else, why not use one of Xenon mass trafic model?).
- Khaak could use one or two more ships.
- More raider variants of the existing ships, for pirates.
- some more ALI unique ships.
- XL Freighter and XL Miner (could be ALI ships, so you would need only 2).
- XL modules for most frequently used modules (e.g. Habitats, Microchips etc.) - that way we could avoid having moloch stations in the endgame, if I could jsut replace 10 standard modules with one XL. I'd be even fine if you simply kitbash several existing module models to make it an XL, they don't have to be unique.
- Terraforming missions for remaining factions (e.g. Terrans, Yaki, HAT, Split, Paranid).
- can we have full spectrum of lasertowers? Currently we only have XS and S lasertower, but it would be useful to also have M and L size lasertower in places where it would be too bothersome to build proper ddefense station. Simply upscaled lasertower model would be fine.
Just one remark: Good missiles should be expensive and slowly produceable only. Erradicating a whole sector in X3 was a very expensive project. Although like everything else: in the late game that was not a problem.]