I thought it would be neat if your ship was visible on the map, or maybe some wreckage of it. You could go pillaging through it trying to find equipment, but there is always the risk of explosions killing colonists. Perhaps raiders are more likely to spawn by it, creating an opportunity to set up traps.
Sure. In fact, the longer you idle near it the more chance there is of being spotted by raiders.
Adds in another element if raiders decide to linger by it. Incentive to attack before they make away with useful stuff.
By which you mean it adds an obvious landing point to be set up with landmines so you don't even have to wait for the raiders to get in motion before you evaporate them all with explosions.
I was thinking this would be more an early game mechanic, once you have the resources to assemble such a complicated trap the raiders won't take notice of it anymore because it will show signs of wear that make it unappealing.
Unless of course, you rush for the explosives. Then you can have it inside of about five days with a decent researcher, or 2 if you get like, a midworld nerd/navy scientist researcher.
+1 Cool idea Todofwar maybe it can just replace the block of metal that's mineable at the start. So it's just a picture of the ship you take apart same as mining. Though It blowing up while mining it would be neat but could be bad for people starting the new map.
Don't want to get off topic but maybe even a event ship can crash land that acts the same.
Really cool idea, few additions:
- The Ship-Techlevel could vary (more "randomness" for the start and a "roleplay"-kind gimmick if you like to develop a story around your group)
- It's a damn cool method to bring in starting-ressources, but what about the Survivors? Maybe you can have a rare Event you hear someone inside the wreck. Your options:
- Try to dig him/her out, risking the ship to blow up, killing the trapped survivor and the rescuer.
- Let him/her die to stay safe.
- It also could be a game-goal, if you don't pillage/destroy the wreck you can eventually repair it and fly away. Well you need some stuff to do that:
- A fitting Crew
- Some guy able to repair it (=an engineer)
- Ressources to repair it
- Proviant for the flight
But to this point, you need to survive all the raiders who spot that wreck ;-)
But also without these features +1 for that idea