Would this also mean that different AI ships would have different Active skilsl loadouts? Like making them really unique.
Also as an idea - based on how "experienced" enemy is they can use these skills more or less efficiently and have better or worse loadouts. Meaning that civilian will be prone to have less skills and using them less efficiently comapring to the military guy on the same ship

And overall this is a super idea! Thank you very much

Yeah this will be a bit of a challenge.

Originally posted by chaosavy:

Yeah this will be a bit of a challenge.

No doubt. At least without an existing mechanic to hand out these upgrades to enemies there is an opportunity to roll out this feature a bit at a time. You could even do it an upgrade at a time, initially saved from balance concerns because only the player owned ships will have them.

i can see how that would be difficult, but maybe take the skill level out and just add faction based uses. Like the Civi's using more defense based skills, the Pirates using more attack and maybe sensor ones, and the TSF using a mix of both. This could add balancing, Each faction ship You own could only use certain ones outside of your control.
Like Shield recharge, my fleet all have shields so that would add a huge advantage to my fleet being able to live longer. But so could the other faction, if the used sheilded ships

Just noticed this thread when randomly trawling the forum; does this mean there is no point upgrading a ship with actives unless you plan to fly it personally? I assume passive upgrades for AI ships are functional at least?

It's complicated - you could swap to the ship to use active upgrades and/or you can activate them in tactical mode. So it depends - if that sort of micro management appeals to you, you could overpower any challenge the game throws at you with tons of missile spam, hit upgrade refresh and do it all over again, while your ships are invincible to damage for a limited time.

Some passive upgrades transfer over to overworld mode and some don't. Speed upgrades and sensor upgrades are probably the best ones for overworld mode.

Thanks. I usually whack shields and armour on anything I buy before throwing it out into the (over)world to fend for itself. Is that a good use of a passive slot, or should I not bother?

Shields and armor won't do anything in overworld mode.

Shields are just a tiny amount of total hp - but they regenerate fast (so are useful in ship mode) and armor - well in overworld mode the damage isn't calculated per bullet and armor isn't a % reduction but rather a flat reduction (so only useful against small projectiles).

Thanks, I guess I will stop buying those upgrades for anything unlikely to see ship mode then! That does beg the question then; is there anywhere that states which upgrades are materially taken into account in overworld mode? I couldn't find this information in the in-game manual or an upgrade guide I found on Steam.

If the majority are not taken into account, maybe consider this as a future enhancement? The behaviour doesn't need to be modelled, maybe just grant a small flat or percentage increase in performance based on the upgrade?

Oh, I see you have already flagged this in another thread.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/369530/discussions/14/1745646187892245815/