Cruiser Command

Simple suggestion, as you upgrade a small ship's weapons, the color of the laser that comes out becomes brighter/lighter/something. Minelayer mines have a larger explosion graphic. Miner lasers would be brighter as well.

Maybe even apply it to BC broadsides and lasers.

love it. My thoughts lead me back to laser upgrades in Super metroid. Your laser changes colors, flies in a different pattern, has a different animation. These things require some pretty intense map editing skills to make the lasers look different fly different and have different effects. But i cant even say how much i approve of the suggestion, id love to see it. Two wraiths can fight eachother yet have entirely different offensive capabilities due to changes to its appearence. I like the idea of customization in small ship or bc combat and especially the idea of a flashier combat system.

And maybe add sound affects when firing (and deploying mines)? Will help
Wraith. Pew pew pew
Corvette Pow! Pow!
Destroyer. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
Hee hee hee

I think most players would agree that visible changes and different types of laser fire available for each ship would allow for deeper customization in your personal combat style and would add more depth to small ship combat, each small ship upgrade tab has plenty of space and i believe it should be used for laser effects, flight patterns, firing rates, maybe even specialty lasers for certain ships that are unique to the ship type. this would be a big project and i honestly dont even know if its possible at this point of map editing really but i think it would make the game so much different in a good way.

Id like to see this discussed a bit by all of ya if everyone approves of it we can post it on the new road map thread :p

It's a good idea but I think 'weapon modes that change more than aesthetics' deserves its own suggestion thread.

haha come on dont make me make my own :p its a different variable but off the same concept xD