Can we expect any big changes to the current small ship flight model in the near future to bring it more into line with the original 'simulation' vision or is it 'almost complete' as far as the designers are concerned?asked by skuripanda
TL;DRThe current small-ship flight model is decently representative but not the whole game; medium and larger ships are expected to handle less nimbly, giving varied gameplay styles.
I would say that it is decently representative of gameplay that we want. I would not say that it represents the whole game. One of the big things about this is that we only have our small ships in and these ships have a ton of maneuverability, they are super responsive...
Great acceleration, a lot better load out balance compared to as you get bigger in ships.
Yeah, what I expect is that the sort of World War II vision is best characterized by the medium sized multicrew ships, the Constellation all the way up to the Retaliator. These ships they're not going to be able to turn on a dime the way that an M50 or a Hornet can, they're not built around maneuverability as much, and that continues to be the case as we scale up further to the point where a battle between Capital ships is nothing like a battle between the small class ships or even the medium. I think that's pretty important actually, like if you had the World War II feeling in our small ships and we were to apply that same approach then it would quickly become untenable and maybe there are other approaches to take but I think that this one is going to give us the best mix of gameplay styles. If what you were really into is, you want that submarine battle, you're probably doing Capital ship action.
Yeah, I mean it's just one of the many parts that as we get all these extra systems, especially once we've gotten multicrew out there, we're really going to be able to start growing this range of gameplay choices because right now we all have speedboats and some of us are going to want the more plodding boats to try and do a broadside attack on someone. Everyone's going to want different things from the game so there's absolutely going to be different flight handling and characteristics to support that and I mean even into some of the smaller ships - there's going to be differences between who's the quick small ship and who's the more sluggish small ship but they're all still probably going to be faster than a Constellation.