Not the tiny ship again....

[Excalibur Bane]

Well, I just hit Level 41, and pumped a few more points into command, as I wanted to unlock another slot. Lo and behold, my ship goes from being fairly big to very tiny again. To say I was disappointed would be putting it mildly, I expected my ship to get bigger, not smaller. What's the deal with this? Do I have to go all the way through the same hulls again, just "medium" variety now?

Please include more hulls in the expansion to fill in the gaps, instead of just reusing the old ones.

Hell, I'd pay for it in a DLC format for that matter.

Anyone else share my opinion?

[Tyrax Lightning]

Originally Posted by Excalibur Bane

Well, I just hit Level 41, and pumped a few more points into command, as I wanted to unlock another slot. Lo and behold, my ship goes from being fairly big to very tiny again. To say I was disappointed would be putting it mildly, I expected my ship to get bigger, not smaller. What's the deal with this? Do I have to go all the way through the same hulls again, just "medium" variety now?

Please include more hulls in the expansion to fill in the gaps, instead of just reusing the old ones.

Hell, I'd pay for it in a DLC format for that matter.

Anyone else share my opinion?

Yeah, I dunno why this would make sense, but I don't dare tamper with it, since I got my Command on my Main Ship to the exact level for the Medium Titan & have decided to make it my Final Ship for it... I'd hate to Update my Patch & suddenly have a Frigate or some other stupid ship like that instead...

I think Mods for dealing with this kinda Issue are being planned to be made, so we can have Command affect the Ship Weight, & other relevant Attributes, yet let us CHOOSE the actual Ship Model that is used. (I've personally suggested having Command Unlock as it does now, & then let ya Select the Ship Model outta what's already unlocked freely anytime ya want while the Command Stats themselves are unaffected & remain the same... for example, if ya go from Light Flagship to Medium Escort, but ya liked the Flagship Model, ya could freely select the Light Flagship Model & have it being what's used, while the Command Stats themselves, including the Weight, are still that of the Medium Escort.)

[Shadow]

I would love to have a unique ship for each hull, but that's 200 more ships.

[Tyrax Lightning]

Originally Posted by Shadow

I would love to have a unique ship for each hull, but that's 200 more ships.

& names.

It's the Stats that affect Gameplay... The Hull should be freely choosable outta what's unlocked.

♥Drakk Medium Titan♥ ^_^

[ScrObot]

Alternately you could only change the ship model every 3 levels instead, but that might be a little too stale for people who don't play to the level cap...

[PixelLord]

Originally Posted by ScrObot

Alternately you could only change the ship model every 3 levels instead, but that might be a little too stale for people who don't play to the level cap...

Exactly! We thought about doing that, but didn't for that reason. Even a color change for the model skin might have worked though if the model had stayed the same mesh for 3 levels. ...might have been better that way. (Shrug)

[Arcatus]

Or - as in most marial arts has some variety of this:

One white belt, two yellow, .... , many black.

[Shadow]

I thought about varying up the texture each time instead of going through the hulls again, but then your model wouldn't change very often (at best 10 models spread across 100 levels). Also 200 new ship textures would add almost 70MB to the game size, which in our case is about a 45% increase in size.

[Excalibur Bane]

Maybe it's just me, but I say add the new 200 models, package it up as a DLC and charge 4.99 for it. Might as well make some money on the improvement.

[Valgor]

Originally Posted by Shadow

I thought about varying up the texture each time instead of going through the hulls again, but then your model wouldn't change very often (at best 10 models spread across 100 levels).

How about changing the size as well and adding a few more navigation lights? Wouldn't that do the trick?