New mod, looking for ideas

[Puke]

i actually had an idea regarding the fighters using ship component thing, and the FTL travel / combat movement discussion below.

what if fighters as such were completely done away with, so that the concept of a small fighter no longer exists. turn fighters into ship sized things, that use ship components. essentially, take all the current ship hull sizes, and make them fighters. this means they can 'land' on planets, and 'dock' with stations and such. i dont know what happens when you try to have a fighter cary cargo, so transports and colony ships might have to be real ships.

so you have all these sub-light ships now, and they cant leave home. now you make some jumpships, using real ship hulls, that are massive (or at least have a massive cargo capacity) that can traverse warp points with your other ships in cargo. maybe the system-shield-booster thingy can only mount on real ships, so you have to stick it on one of your jumpships, but it boosts the shield of all the combat ships that are with it (ships that only have the little shield-reciever component)

what do you think, ZeroAdunn? anybody?

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