Shield generators tend to work better than weapons for this sort of thing.

Yeah, the problem with using weapons for this, is if you forget to use a fixed forward hardpoint, your additional parts are going to move strangely. Now, if that's what you're after, then go for it. Just make sure that the part actually should move.

I will say that this could make things interesting for modding, please keep us posted as to any results you may have.

Oh, also make sure that you leave room on the ship for actual weapons

ArchKaine

Some say ignorance is bliss, I say they're just too blissful to know better.

Modifying ships in-game?

What manner do you speak of, because simply put, in-game the files are loaded and in use, so how can you mod it while you are using the game...

I thought about that and i saw only one possible upgrade like this except the things we already know (Reactors, Tractor Beams, etc...). So what I found was extra armor plates that you can buy and attatch to the ships hull. But you would have to make lots of models because of all the different ships.

Argh was mentioning something like this a while back and had the idea of having alternative ship skins mountable to the ships. I guess the alternative skins would be 101% scale of the original or something.
But, how could you control which skin or armour upgrade could be mounted to each ship? There is limited spare classes.

different ship skins wont work... there are too many problems that would need to be solved first

the armour upgrades do work but you will need to edit every single ship in FL

I've thought about this once, but for a different purpose. Anything larger than a freighter looks awkward when inside a base, so why not create a basic ship (the landing pod) and just equip the real large ship model? So the large model just acts as a "skin", so when done properly (no shop archetype, i think, to make it disappear in bases) the skin doesn't appear on bases and only the landing pod shows. Just an idea, though.

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the problem with this is that the hardpoints are not set to the right positions and all ships would basicly be the same (pods) or you just have one single ship