Requested new features for SE:IV

[Baron Grazic]

I'd like to have the ability to copy Enemy Ship Designs. If you capture an enemy ship, you should be able to select that design and 'copy it' or 'upgrade it' to the latest technology that you have.

Then you would be able to obtain an old 'Racial Trait' Ship design, upgrade it with your parts, without changing any of the 'Racial Trait' parts, and have a unique ship.

This would add a new dimention for allied games, where with no Racial Traits, you could Buy and upgrade Organic Armored, Talisman, Psychic ships from your allies.

[dogscoff]

I'd like to have the ability to copy Enemy Ship Designs. If you capture an enemy ship, you should be able to select that design and 'copy it' or 'upgrade it' to the latest technology that you have.

yeah, this would be really nice for retrofitting captured enemy ships, or designing out those unrepairable organic weapons & armour.

One thing I'd love to see is a change to the pathifinding routines, so that if a ship's route takes it near a friendly supply depot, it will check to see if it can detour through the depot without expending any extra movement points and, if it can, do so.

Obviously I don't know how much work this alteration would need to implement, but I imagine that it would be fairly minimal, yet it would take a hell of a lot of irritating micromanagement and pointlessly stranded ships out of the game. Perfect final patch material, IMHO.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

well, send it.

[dogscoff]

well, send it.

i did- Last year somewhen. Aaron responded with a message that said (more or less) "thanks very much, I'll add it to my list of >1000 suggested features." I'm not holding my breath=-)