Idea - Beam Array ‘booster’ for show accurate ship phasers

daviboi1983

Hey,

I’ve had an idea that I personally would love to see in game.

Instead of loading up my ship with multiple beam arrays that all fire simultaneously in a battle, how about having a new weapon type which is a beam array booster?

For example, I could have 1 beam array and 3 boosters which would mean visually, my ship would fire a single beam at a time, but it would deal the equivalent DPS as 4 arrays.

I think this would make the game more show accurate and reduce the space battle visual clutter.

Likewise with cannons.

Curious what others think of this?

I’m sure it wouldn’t be for everyone but would be totally optional.

tom61sto

FX spam is so extreme at times that I can't see my ship, so it's probably worth addressing the more offensive spam in a convenient way before getting to 8x weapons being issue (or even visible compared to everything else).