With the introduction of the Avenger Warlock, we've gotten our first glimpse at the prospects for non-lethal combat options. Will it be possible to add such non-lethal combat modules to other ships? Say an EMP module as defense for a hospital ship?asked by Quartzbear
TL;DRYes, non-lethal modules like EMP will be possible on other ships, usually bigger ones, as the game is built around swappable components, though producing all the component variety takes time.
Yes it will be possible to add nonlethal combat modules for the ships. EMP isn't going to be strictly limited to the Warlock we actually have some modules and plans for some of the other ships. Obviously there, normally be the bigger ships that would have them.We're definitely building the game to be quite item and component centric and module centric. So you'll be able to switch and chop and change how your ships equipped more so than you have in the past. One of our drawbacks, cause the underlying system supports this already is just generating all the components with the right variety of functionality.So we have a plan for that it's just there's so many things in terms of just getting the ships out and other things. Even though we have a pretty big team for a game of this size with this many options, there's never enough people, but absolutely we're planning for you to be able to switch out components and customise your ships and one of those things say would be EMP.