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The crew is clearly armed, I suggest an armory on the ship (or just a subsystem without its own room) so that one can upgrade the crew members close combat abilities for a more boarding focused game-play.

They could have armors, heavier weapons (more dmg) and even tools to disable enemy ship systems quicker.

My understanding is that combat is being kept pretty basic at the moment.

You know, part of the reason I like working on FTL so much (and part of the reason it's so scary) is that there are so many directions we can take the game. It's almost limitless. A version of this armory idea was on the table already and has been filed away as "maybe would work" (along with oh-so-many ideas).

I can imagine, you could even have a 'sick bay' the options are endless... I have wondering if the ships where only going to have one deck? maybe more??

Stelly

Stelly wrote:I can imagine, you could even have a 'sick bay' the options are endless... I have wondering if the ships where only going to have one deck? maybe more??

Stelly

multi deck ships

You just blew my mind. However I would think that technically they rooms are already on mutliple floors but just layed out as it is ingame

Niknaktom wrote:

Stelly wrote:I can imagine, you could even have a 'sick bay' the options are endless... I have wondering if the ships where only going to have one deck? maybe more??

Stelly

multi deck ships

You just blew my mind. However I would think that technically they rooms are already on mutliple floors but just layed out as it is ingame

The thing about multiple decks would mean that you would need a way to get to them, like elavators or ladders in emergencies, say the power went out...you could knock out the power and then board on a different deck from the players crew take the ship over by segmenting it

Stelly

Stelly wrote:

Niknaktom wrote:

Stelly wrote:I can imagine, you could even have a 'sick bay' the options are endless... I have wondering if the ships where only going to have one deck? maybe more??

Stelly

multi deck ships

You just blew my mind. However I would think that technically they rooms are already on mutliple floors but just layed out as it is ingame

The thing about multiple decks would mean that you would need a way to get to them, like elavators or ladders in emergencies, say the power went out...you could knock out the power and then board on a different deck from the players crew take the ship over by segmenting it

Stelly

Oh goodness, I really do enjoy FTL for its visual simplicity and multi-deck ships would really add significantly to the level (hah!) of detail that the player needs to manage. Now, if there were a cool way to seamlessly transition between the different decks or easily represent events occurring on other decks...

I'm no programmer, but I would limit to 3 decks, Basement, Ground, and First floors... and at the bottom of the screen I would have B, G, F little buttons to transition between them all, and another for the enemy ship...the buttons would flash if events where occuring on other floors

Stelly

Justin wrote:You know, part of the reason I like working on FTL so much (and part of the reason it's so scary) is that there are so many directions we can take the game. It's almost limitless. A version of this armory idea was on the table already and has been filed away as "maybe would work" (along with oh-so-many ideas).

Ok, nice to know.

Thanks