Any plans to add Living Freighters?

[LightOfTheFuture]

I figure that after Living Ships and Living Frigates, the next thing to add could be Living Freighters. It would have to have its own way of adding base modules to it, as you wouldn't be able to use the technological equivalent, presumably, as you can't use technological modules in living ships.

I know that it would be pretty freaky to walk around inside a living freighter, but that's the whole point! It's like flying around inside a giant space whale! Also, I feel like a lot of the decorations, particularly the tentacle spire and other horrific organic decorations would fit in better inside a living freighter. It would be great to be able to make a horror-themed living freighter base someday. We could even add some of those growths and tentacles from the derelict freighters to make it even better! It sounds like fun to me. I hope you add it eventually.

[gNg]

It's a nice idea, but how would you get into it? I mean, the thought of climbing in through any of its natural orifices is less than appealing.

And some would be much worse than others...

[Zloth]

Originally posted by gNg:

It's a nice idea, but how would you get into it?

In is fine (nom nom nom nom nom...), it's how we get out that worries me. ;)

[UncreativelyNamed]

Originally posted by Zloth:

Originally posted by gNg:

It's a nice idea, but how would you get into it?

In is fine (nom nom nom nom nom...), it's how we get out that worries me. ;)

Well, it could be like a jellyfish, where "in" is the same as "out." I'm thinking giant space jellyfish. There is already one in the game, sort of, that sometimes appears when you're shooting up asteroids. Just need a bigger one of those! :D

[momopovich]

Originally posted by gNg:

It's a nice idea, but how would you get into it? I mean, the thought of climbing in through any of its natural orifices is less than appealing.

And some would be much worse than others...

Simple, some kind of open space in its carapace would do the job, no need for dirty stuff

[LightOfTheFuture]

Originally posted by gNg:

It's a nice idea, but how would you get into it? I mean, the thought of climbing in through any of its natural orifices is less than appealing.

And some would be much worse than others...

Obviously, as a space whale, it would have a blowhole. And you would use that oriface for both directions. Besides, the whole idea is horrifying, that's the point. If you don't want to walk around the internal organs of a terrifying space beast, stick to the technological freighters.

[icepurple]

Actually, some new model for Capital Freighter to own would be a nice addition.

But personally, I'd prefer to have something more to do with the freighter than just building a flying base on it. All the upgrades for the frigates to install on the freighter are basically unnecessary. You accomplish anything without any of it.

For an idea, I'd like to have the freighter landing on the planet, and be able drive in and out its hangar my exocrafts :)

[LightOfTheFuture]

Originally posted by icepurple:

Actually, some new model for Capital Freighter to own would be a nice addition.

But personally, I'd prefer to have something more to do with the freighter than just building a flying base on it. All the upgrades for the frigates to install on the freighter are basically unnecessary. You accomplish anything without any of it.

For an idea, I'd like to have the freighter landing on the planet, and be able load drive in and out its hangar my exocrafts :)

First of all, being able to use your freighter for your exocrafts is already possible via the Orbital Exocraft Materializer. If you have that on your freighter, all you need is to have a base with a bay for each of your exocrafts on it and you can summon any of your exocrafts to any planet in the universe as long as your freighter is in your current system.

Personally, I find the Freighter to be plenty useful even while confined to space. What I would like is to have more to do when teleporting over to the Frigates besides just repairing the broken bits. It seems very tedious, not to mention lonely, since there's no NPCs there. You can't even go inside it.

But that's off-topic. I still want a Living Freighter space whale to decorate with all varieties of horrifying things most of all 😈😂

[icepurple]

Originally posted by LightOfTheFuture:

Originally posted by icepurple:

Actually, some new model for Capital Freighter to own would be a nice addition.

But personally, I'd prefer to have something more to do with the freighter than just building a flying base on it. All the upgrades for the frigates to install on the freighter are basically unnecessary. You accomplish anything without any of it.

For an idea, I'd like to have the freighter landing on the planet, and be able load drive in and out its hangar my exocrafts :)

First of all, being able to use your freighter for your exocrafts is already possible via the Orbital Exocraft Materializer. If you have that on your freighter, all you need is to have a base with a bay for each of your exocrafts on it and you can summon any of your exocrafts to any planet in the universe as long as your freighter is in your current system.

Personally, I find the Freighter to be plenty useful even while confined to space. What I would like is to have more to do when teleporting over to the Frigates besides just repairing the broken bits. It seems very tedious, not to mention lonely, since there's no NPCs there. You can't even go inside it.

I'd be happy to trade the orbital materialiser out of the game, in exchange for a landing freighter where I can open its hangar and drive in and out my exocrafts. That's what I call cool, not the lame summon everything everywhere. But hey, that's me.

[LightOfTheFuture]

Originally posted by icepurple:

I'd be happy to trade the orbital materialiser out of the game, in exchange for a landing freighter where I can open its hangar and drive in and out my exocrafts. That's what I call cool, not the lame summon everything everywhere. But hey, that's me.

I think this game isn't capable of something that ambitious, but I'm not saying it wouldn't be cool if they could implement it.

That said, how could they make something that large land on a planet? It has to have a flat space large enough for an enormous freighter. Not to mention the freighters are probably large enough that the natural curvature of the planet could be a problem with finding the needed 'flatness'.

[The Grand Mugwump]

Originally posted by LightOfTheFuture:

Originally posted by icepurple:

I'd be happy to trade the orbital materialiser out of the game, in exchange for a landing freighter where I can open its hangar and drive in and out my exocrafts. That's what I call cool, not the lame summon everything everywhere. But hey, that's me.

I think this game isn't capable of something that ambitious, but I'm not saying it wouldn't be cool if they could implement it.

That said, how could they make something that large land on a planet? It has to have a flat space large enough for an enormous freighter. Not to mention the freighters are probably large enough that the natural curvature of the planet could be a problem with finding the needed 'flatness'.

There's also the physics part of it. Massive space ships are incapable of landing or taking off from planets without falling apart or requiring an exorbitant amount of propulsion and structural support to survive the entry and exit (in hard sci fi settings anyways).

I actually think it would be funny if the devs implemented it. "Okay, you can land your freighter, but all of its modules are damaged every time you land or take off and it costs 3,000 launch fuel items to get off the planet."

[icepurple]

Originally posted by The Grand Mugwump:

Originally posted by LightOfTheFuture:

I think this game isn't capable of something that ambitious, but I'm not saying it wouldn't be cool if they could implement it.

That said, how could they make something that large land on a planet? It has to have a flat space large enough for an enormous freighter. Not to mention the freighters are probably large enough that the natural curvature of the planet could be a problem with finding the needed 'flatness'.

There's also the physics part of it. Massive space ships are incapable of landing or taking off from planets without falling apart or requiring an exorbitant amount of propulsion and structural support to survive the entry and exit (in hard sci fi settings anyways).

I actually think it would be funny if the devs implemented it. "Okay, you can land your freighter, but all of its modules are damaged every time you land or take off and it costs 3,000 launch fuel items to get off the planet."

HG has to ask to "independence day" staff how they did it that time. But admittedly, in the movie, the ships don't land, only crashes after being attacked. Is there any movie where there were large ships landing on planets?

[The Grand Mugwump]

Originally posted by icepurple:

Originally posted by The Grand Mugwump:

There's also the physics part of it. Massive space ships are incapable of landing or taking off from planets without falling apart or requiring an exorbitant amount of propulsion and structural support to survive the entry and exit (in hard sci fi settings anyways).

I actually think it would be funny if the devs implemented it. "Okay, you can land your freighter, but all of its modules are damaged every time you land or take off and it costs 3,000 launch fuel items to get off the planet."

HG has to ask to "independence day" staff how they did it that time. But admittedly, in the movie, the ships don't land, only crashes after being attacked. Is there any movie where there were large ships landing on planets?

I want to say Star Wars, but I haven't seen them for a while so my memory is a little hazy.

Halo also kind of does it, with the big ships hovering just above the planet's surface (which would also be really hard on the ship's structure).

[momopovich]

Originally posted by icepurple:

For an idea, I'd like to have the freighter landing on the planet, and be able drive in and out its hangar my exocrafts :)

That is a massive downgrade from having the ability to summon freighter and exocrafts immediately

Also would take a very long time for the freighter to land, just to see a landing animation

Some useless time waster imo (star citizen like)

[icepurple]

Originally posted by The Grand Mugwump:

Originally posted by icepurple:

HG has to ask to "independence day" staff how they did it that time. But admittedly, in the movie, the ships don't land, only crashes after being attacked. Is there any movie where there were large ships landing on planets?

I want to say Star Wars, but I haven't seen them for a while so my memory is a little hazy. That's definitely a soft sci-fi setting anyways. The fans practically rioted when they tried to add hard sci fi by explaining how the force works with midichlorians.

Coming to think of it, in force awakens, there are crash landed huge ships (destroyer size). About sizes in NMS, if you think of it, we already have crash landed freighters. I don't think size is really a problem.

[LightOfTheFuture]

Originally posted by icepurple:

HG has to ask to "independence day" staff how they did it that time. But admittedly, in the movie, the ships don't land, only crashes after being attacked. Is there any movie where there were large ships landing on planets?

Just because it's possible in movies where things are done with special effects and trickery doesn't mean it's possible to do in a game where everything is subject to realistic simulated physics.

Originally posted by icepurple:

Coming to think of it, in force awakens, there are crash landed huge ships (destroyer size). About sizes in NMS, if you think of it, we already have crash landed freighters. I don't think size is really a problem.

Well, if you want to crash land your freighter onto the planet, be my guest. I doubt it will be cheap to repair though.