Two suggestions : Crew Equipment ]
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:16 pm
Greetings.I had a few ideas while I was playing this wonderful game.I shared them with my friend and he agreeded that they would make FTL even more deep and strategical.
First of all,current boarding ffghting is extremely bland.The only factors that do influence on it are :
-Skill of individual fighter or race traits
-Lack or presense of MedBay
-Reinforced doors.
After playing both boarding and usual,"smash the hull" styles,I've understood how bland boarding is.Equipment could fix this sitiuation.Fireproof suits,oxygen masks for airless rooms,Exoskeletons for durability,personal teleporters that can teleport you out even when main teleporter is offline,flamethrowers,door cutters/weilders,booby traps that are installed on doors/systems,medical equipment,sabotauge bomb with a timer...List goes on.
Only a single piece of equipment can be given to an individual,and some races cant use some equipment(A rockman with a flamethrower or a Mantis with exoskeleton would be simply broken).
Equipment could present interesting tactics and challenges,like troops with oxygen masks overtaking oxygen station and holding it,saboteur bomb and door weilder holding a specific room
First of all,current boarding ffghting is extremely bland.The only factors that do influence on it are :
-Skill of individual fighter or race traits
-Lack or presense of MedBay
-Reinforced doors.
After playing both boarding and usual,"smash the hull" styles,I've understood how bland boarding is.Equipment could fix this sitiuation.Fireproof suits,oxygen masks for airless rooms,Exoskeletons for durability,personal teleporters that can teleport you out even when main teleporter is offline,flamethrowers,door cutters/weilders,booby traps that are installed on doors/systems,medical equipment,sabotauge bomb with a timer...List goes on.
Only a single piece of equipment can be given to an individual,and some races cant use some equipment(A rockman with a flamethrower or a Mantis with exoskeleton would be simply broken).
Equipment could present interesting tactics and challenges,like troops with oxygen masks overtaking oxygen station and holding it,saboteur bomb and door weilder holding a specific room