(11-26-2019, 05:59 PM)Haxus Wrote: Before giving your patents away to newbies willy nilly, consider giving/selling them the modules instead. Then they can make a few ships but they can't make the modules.
Also consider making it harder to simply steal these now valuable patents.
See: (Suggestion thread) Burn Patents On Capture
(11-26-2019, 10:44 PM)Haxus Wrote:Quote:remove the Wormhole P FTL Drive. It is needlessly confusing and uselessThat is why the time to develop wormhole drives is relatively short. The P drive ships aren't the greatest.
The P drive isn't useless; its just that the PN drive is much better. The PN drive is technologically superior to the P drive; it doesn't just go faster. The same can be said of the PNN drive; it is technologically superior, not just smaller/faster/more efficient.
In that case simply order it differently so the P drive isn't the default one selected when making a new spacecraft design. Too often has a new player finally designed their first spacecraft blueprint, build their ship and started exploring, only to notice they can't go back home without deadheading because the designer defaulted to a wormhole FTL drive module that is purposefully bad.
It also totally broke all old spacecraft blueprints when the P drive was introduced. As all existing spacecraft suddenly had a P drive in the blueprint rather than a normal PN or PNN drive. This might not be an issue anymore, but I still have old blueprints burned to disks that I have to manually upgrade after manufacturing. Something that I always forget to do by the way.