fleet battles

[Bubbles]

i would love to see fleet battles become a thing. just imagine warping into a area with your fleet and doing battle with another fleet.

[Wile E Coyote, Super Genius]

No.

..well maybe.. but no.

[Bubbles]

i think it would be epic

[SaD-82]

I would rather see fleet battles between NPC ships - I don't need another "Oh, I warped here and now I have to engage something whereas I just wanted to look for a basalt planet."-moment. Those moments now are somewhat predictable and you can avoid them pretty easily. Fleet battles? With your freighter as a stationary object (and no, the freighter won't move ever)? This would be a pretty big nuisance.
Some fleet battles between NPC's, though (which won't happen, too) would just be sightseeing and ambience. A nice lightshow. As those pirate raids already are. So...I don't need those fleet battles either, it seems.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Probably not a good idea. Knowing HG it would be like a settlement in space. You would get a text adventure of how the battle went. They might even be mean and make you fix some frigates to heighten the realism of it all.

It would likely not be what you are imagining by a long shot.

[Bubbles]

Yeah I was imagining where all your ships actually move and fight and stuff

[Bubbles]

But the game is still epic regardless

[Bubbles]

Can't wait for it to come out on switch

[Raphtalia ~ Follower Of Lilith]

Originally posted by Bubbles:

i would love to see fleet battles become a thing. just imagine warping into a area with your fleet and doing battle with another fleet.

only been waiting for this since it was shown before the game was even released....

[Lindy Bomber]

They have to make freighters move first.

I don't think the game engine would handle close quarters broad side to broad side age of sail style combat seen in most popular sci-fi. But maybe they could do ww2 long range carrier style battles.

Give the last three updates, fleet battles would be the next logical step, if it's feasible.

[Bubbles]

I do like that they added wingmen for dogfights though

[Bored Peon]

While fleet battles would be nice as a concept I think it would be horrible in practice.

Anyone who composed their fleet to be more towards science, trading, mining, support would be screwed because a combat composition would become the "new meta."

Like I usually go with 8 or so combat frigates out of the 30 frigates. The rest are spread out for various tasks usually 4-6 of each type.

Now factor in frigates being away for 20 hours on missions and I would imagine the combat would be something involuntary like pirates. In other words people would be thrown into fleet battles while having no fleet or only a portion of their present. Which brings you to an issue of how to balance that.

[TΞSTOSTΞROWNLOL]

Hell yeah

Some large scale pvp fleet battles would be epic. It could lay the foundation for ingame player organisations and territory control.

[Bubbles]

Forgot they could be away for so long lol. It's been a while since I played. Waiting for switch version then I'll play again.

[Bubbles]

I'd rather have pve fleet battles to be honest, at least when it comes to claiming territory anyway

[Edmund Greyfox]

No. The game isn't designed for that kind of thing, and anything they could force to work would be inferior to the systems that already exist in other games that were designed for it.