I was thinking about that sort of thing Last night (the large areas of land that destroy ships if they run aground, I mean). I'm not sure how frustrating it would get, but different systems could have different wind factors, which would essentially move a ship in a random direction each turn (probably no more than 2 sectors, with the average being 1). That might turn out to be a dumb idea in the context of fun, though.
Anyway, yes, one thing at a time.
I won't have a lot of time to look at it until Thursday, but I've started on the components.txt.
Oh, and also, I had some ideas about cloaking/scanners I'd like to throw out to see whether they would work or not. Remember, these are just ideas for the time being:
I was thinking that cloaking would be an inherent feature anyway, since they wouldn't have had system scanners or anything like that, and often they didn't know the enemy was upon them until they were literally upon them. If there is some way to add a range to sensors then that might be a way to do it - I'm thinking Crows Nest components and Lookout Tower facilities. That would cover visual cloaking.
The other kind I had in mind would be mainly for the pirate races, and would represent infiltrating ships. These wouldn't be as powerful as warships, and it would be inherent in the VehicleSize rather than an added component, with pirate vessels posing as trading ships that would go unmolested until their cargo and manifests were checked out at a checkpoint or a port (some sort of Security Technology tree for the colonials). This would be a good way to provide targets for Piracy Intel, and to check out any aforementioned "trade routes" that may or may not be added later.
I know I'm getting way ahead of myself, but I'm getting quite excited and ideas keep cropping up.
The focus at the moment is still on the basic components, vehicles sizes and facilities, though, definitely.
No really!
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