Gear suggestions

novapolaris

Remembering the old thread Cryptic made years ago asking for special ship console ideas, I really miss that. I've still had ideas for things they could add, and hope something like this could still be useful. Please feel free to add any ideas of your own.

Recently I've been thinking about experimental weapons, and I'd be up for seeing more that don't use the omni-arc setup.

• The old Tempest tailgun could be turned into one if it gets a T6. (Possibly usable on any ship, but not required. It'd be cool though.)
• Another idea I had was a "light" lance weapon, in the form of a plasma railgun with a tight fore arc (like dual/quad cannons). Plasma would give it different functionality from the Caitian/Ferasan railguns, in having an AoE burst on each hit, or chance of DoT burns.

If by some chance we ever got a new Crystalline Entity item, it'd be interesting to see a console that can spawn/hangar craft that are combat-capable shards that support us. If it's too close to other consoles in functionality (like swarmer matrix, reinforcing squadrons, and guardian defense drones), it'd be interesting if it was support oriented, like how the CE would heal from re-crystalizing. (On destruction or not.)

I used up a lot of unique ideas for the old thread, so I'll start with that and add more as I get ideas.

Edit: As of the anniversary bundle release, I found out experimental weapons that summon pets is apparently on the table. o_o
Would it work if there was another one like that, but gives a minor deflection effect on incoming fire instead of the test and bomb the Hydra has?

novapolaris

I meant for this to be a thread others could contribute ideas to, pardon if I didn't make it clear enough.