EDIT: After a long hiatus from the forum, I've finally touched up The Fishhook, which now has the cloak image and gibs, as well as a second artillery weapon you can theoretically buy at a shop, and a slightly altered layout. I'll probably have stuff to tweak and polish yet, but for now, the ship is complete!
Here's the *actual* new version:https://www.dropbox.com/s/55igiyc1sn2g2 ... 0.ftl?dl=0
Hasn't quite been tested as much as I'd like, just because the ship was driving me crazy. Please let me know what you think of it.
Here's the inside of the ship, for the curious (updated to reflect the latest version):
And the outside:
It's a Lanius vessel designed for cutting up ships, because we don't have enough of those. Comes with three custom beam weapons and a hacking module, two Lanius crew, two levels in shields, engines and piloting, a backup battery, and barely enough to run everything else, except for reactor power, which is noteably less than you need to run everything. Might be a tad overpowered, but it's also just a bit tricky to use, based on my testing. The new weapon, in case you're wondering, is an artillery flak cannon that's wildly inaccurate, but has a lot of projectiles. Here's the old version, without the cloak image and gibs and extra artillery weapon:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/scyta3so7zqi0na/The%20Fishhook.ftl
Overview of the weapons: The Fishhook now comes with two lasers, Lanius Incision Beams, which do no damage to the hull of the ship, but disable systems, injure crew, and set things on fire occasionally. It also comes with an industrial (artillery) cutting beam, which has a fairly long trail and does two points of damage to a shot, as well as causing breaches over every square it crosses. May be slightly buggy upgrade-wise, I can't tell from the brief testing I did.
You can also hopefully buy a second artillery weapon, the Scrap Exchange Vent! It's a flak cannon that has a lot of projectiles, but is wildly inaccurate. The idea being that it was modified from a port designed to exchange scrap at low speeds. Other quirks, the shots have a slow travel speed, but can't be shot down by drones.
These will probably be further refined later, but for now, I hope it makes for an interesting experience.
T̶r̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶d̶e̶c̶i̶d̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶a̶m̶e̶.̶ ̶C̶a̶n̶ ̶O̶p̶e̶n̶e̶r̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶F̶i̶s̶h̶h̶o̶o̶k̶?̶ ̶W̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶?̶
EDIT: Officially known as The Fishhook! Just sounds better, really.
And finally, thank you for your time, and tell me what you think.
) you could use one of the plethora of weapons available in CE that fits your ship design (ship cutter), without running into possible balance issues (too OP when your custom weapons get paired with some types of normal weapons - really, masking weapons balanced is much harder task, than most ship creators think it is), not to mention avoiding element of immersion-breaking. It is not very "realistic" to have ship with only-one-in-galaxy weapon type, unless it really, really fits the lore. For me, this ship may act like great "one of many" lanius scavenging vessels, no much sense in it having something that no one else in galaxy can get.