Individual weapon upgrades

posted on May 21st, 2011, 2:08 pm

So I was thinking that it would be interesting to upgrade weapons by type : phasers, pulses, and torpedos. And also have them be unique like increase range of phasers, increase damage of pulses, and increase hit rate of torpedos(only by a little to keep balance) or mix and match those things. I haven't played the game to much but I think it wouldn't destroy to much of the balance would it?

posted on May 31st, 2011, 12:59 pm

(nudge) so what does the community think ? Is this even possible to do? It could also be unique to each race. example feds could reserch level 3 phasers, level 2 pulses , and level 1 torps. or something like that.

posted on May 31st, 2011, 1:16 pm

I do like this idea, however a range upgrade would most likely be too unbalancing to be used.  I could see things like damage and rat of fire increased for different weapons or weapon types. 

Off course - I do not know what implementing this would require.  For me I would classify this as a cool idea, but I do not wanting taking lots of time from other areas.