Idea: Combat and Ship Upgrades

[fourthedesign]

Would be great to move more towards a combat game, instead of sticking with a "score per distance" system. Ideas:

• Enemies spawn and navigate the map in a manner similar to the player, and they can shoot at the player, deploy obstacles etc.
• Player can install weapons on their ship (auto aim/shoot or click to shoot), which target the enemies
• Game progression by earning currency from shooting enemies down, and an economy model which allows the player to upgrade their ship, with new weapons and other mechanics.

[Bertie000]

I'm thinking a open movement game, switch between scenes/systems to find wanted ships and then claim bounties.

[fourthedesign]

Bounty hunting would be good. Opening new issue for that idea

[ANGELB3AR]

I really like your idea to 'install weapons on their ship'. Ships could have a certain number of weapon slots available and players could use in-game currency to purchase/upgrade weapons to install onto one of the weapon slots. It opens up the idea of having different ship models with varying numbers of weapon slots

[KAAzadi]

Wrote up a prototype start for the weapons by creating hardpoints that can be classified by type/size, allowing for customization of the player's ship to varying degrees. While very much a prototype, it has the potential to scale towards what I was reading here.