Baturinsky's messages

Range IS an issue for weapons, as it is increasingly hard to hit anything at distance with most weapons.

There will be different kinds of boost modes for engines (usually requiring energy). Plain speed increase, single impulse, short-range jump.

Yes, bombers and liners are a little too good, I’ll nerf them a little. Also, may be replace some of Agency speed with some other bonus.

I don’t see a problem in player using a lot of weapons. After all, it is usual in both FPS and RPGs to have a lot of spells/guns at fingertips. Switching other equipment, though, can be somewhat troublesome. Should player be able to hot-swap engines and shields in the middle of battle? I don’t think so.

Scouts and Brotherhood will have bonus to hide, Agency bonus to scan radius. Not sure which hull should get bonus to scan. Bomber and Motherships, may be, as they are supposed to be support ships.

Algorithm of visibility will be as follows: there is a base visibility range (may be 10 km), which is multiplied/divided by both side’s bonuses. So, scout has x2 hiding, agency fighter has x1.5 scanning, so fighter will see scout at 10 * 1.5 / 2 = 7.5 km. All friendly ships are visible, whoever is in radar range of hostile is visible to everyone.

Cargo mines – may be, but it will be somewhat tricky to teach AI to use or avoid them.

Whether things are hard to hit at a distance is not relevant. I see no advantage for fast ships to get closer if slow ships can just hot-swap weapons to use more short range firepower.

FPS games are usually fully twitch-based, with no ship design screens. I have no twitch skills whatsoever, so I don’t play FPS games much.

RPGs with randomly generated equipment have massive amounts of junk to sort through. Anything below what the player currently

Look at MechWarrior 2, or the BattleTech universe in general. Few of the equipment in there was really useless, and they have whole forums dedicated to discussing the pros and cons of user-made mecha designs.

Bomber and motherships already occupy the huge warship role. Add another hull specialized in scanning and hiding, and give a smaller scan/hide bonus to drones and maybe scouts.

Cargo mines – think of them as very slow moving missiles. AI can just dump them around randomly when in combat against a nearby enemy, and avoiding them is no harder than avoiding incoming fire.

Advantage of fast ship is being able to get FURTHER, or being where it is needed most. Scout is a poor choice for one-on-one fight vs bomber, but it can pick and destroy soft targets, that no one else have chance to catch.

Void is not a FPS, but not a turn-based RPG either. It’s action-rpg, like Diablo, Elder Scrolls, Titan Quest, Borderlands, Ragnarok Online etc. And they often end up using over dozen of abilities or weapons on hot keys. I doubt, though, player will use more than a few weapons actively.

If you don’t have/want to use twitch-based skills, you can tailor your ship/team to fit your style – trade dodging ability for firepower, use weapons that does not demand good aiming skill, etc.

Scouts are already (well, as soon as scan range is implemented, that is) specialized exactly on scanning and hiding. Even if they don’t have innate bigger scanning radius, they can fly fast to where reconnaissance is necessary, see enemies before being detected, and run away if necessary. Also, as we already have seen (I suppose), number of types of hulls is not same as number of specializations. I’ll make sure to add options besides hull bonus to increase your scanning range.

So the only incentive in the game is to get to the highest Rank you can which i believe is Elite 30 or so. in my opinion if i were you, instead of making a whole new game. Just start to update Void until you eventually you have made Void 2. We can even give you feedback on what we like an don’t like with the updates. But you do it how you want.
P.S. Is your picture of Spike from Cowboy Bebop. Its Been bugging me for a wile.

No, it’s from Captain Tylor.
Void 2 is on pretty advanced stage now, but as I do it on and off, it takes some time. Now is happened to be “on” , so there is chances that it will be released some time soon:)
On the other hand, in retrospective, it would be probably better to make updates on Void 1, while doing Void 2 too…

void 2 need multiplayer version… and “in void 2 you need to make it so that you can capture stations and build your own also ships hold anoyingly small amounts of stuff and the ones that hold alot are SLOW” supported’