I've been playing Elite for like 3 years, with and w/o VR and on gamepad and HOTAS setup. It is amazing game, but it is truly "wide as ocean, deep as puddle". I also been playing EVE, which is about space too, but much more deep than ED in all aspects.
After some time I realized, that changing ships in ED in a way ships realized in EVE could bring a lot, A LOT of fun and sense in game. For example, it will solve "Anaconda problem" – buy this ship and you won't need anything else.
However, I wasn't able to differentiate ships good enough using current game setup, so I came to idea of Supercruise mechanics change. Now it could be as simple as "Point to target and move throttle to blue zone". You can even reach Hutton orbital in that way, all you need – watch Netflix on second screen long enough. My idea is to make throttle in SC to control acceleration instead of speed. It adds skill requirement to SC flying – when to accelerate, when to decelerate and so. Also it will add variety for ships specs, which is the purpose of all my thoughts.
And now we can make ships SPECIALIZED. At the moment there is only 1 type of really specialized ships – passenger ones. You can't fit luxury passenger cabins on Cutter, so you NEED Dolphin/Beluga/Orca for really cool passenger missions (broken missions is another topic, let's focus on ships now).
Let's think, how can we differentiate other ships now:
Explorers: need long jump and good fuel scoop, Anaconda has both
Combat ships: shield/armor, maneuverability, fire power (Anaconda has all except maneuverability, so you may think about another ship, but you still can easily do HazRes on Anaconda)
Trade ships: CARGO (Okay, you may want to buy T9 or Cutter, but Anaconda is good enough too)
Universal ships: ehm… Anaconda?
And here is my idea summary:
Explorers:
Combat ships:
Trade ships:
Universal ships: NO SPECIALIZED MODULES, but plenty of hardpoints, optional internal modules and so on, so they really could be good at many things, but never get great at something one.
What do you think, fellow commanders? =)
And thank you for reading! Fly safe! o7
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