Stuff I'd love to see in XPiratez!

[Psyentific]

Overall I think there's plenty of near-past and modern-ish guns and not enough near-future or far-future guns. Things like bootleg gauss guns made by Earthers playing around with alien tech, or kustom-made space pirate guns. I'd like to see more like the Laslock Shotgun and Plasma Tommy, the Hydra Laser and Magneto-Plasma Gun, or maybe something that uses Standard Laser clips. Maybe a Laslock Rifle manufactured once you've researched Flintlock Rifle and Laser Weapon Disassembly, or a Plasma Musket (Plasma Blunderbuss?) at a suitable mid-tier tech level. What about a Boarding Gun or Super Shoota that's been upgraded to shoot laser or plasma? Maybe a Flintlock Rifle upgraded with Gauss parts?

[Fugazza]

The Watchtower map is... kinda big for the mission itself or is just me?

[ontherun]

I'd like it if people stopped turning XPZ into a gun museum.

But, piratey and criminal stuff fit well into the framework, even older ones 

well..hey why not just have a bounty mission named "gun museum"?! A jack or goblin zaxx early one, where we have to retrive for die hard collectionist some military stuff from centuries ago (similarly to "archeologichal dig") but as bounty player might retain a part of the stuff..trivia, did you know guys that the BAR was Clyde Barrow preferred weapon?

What would be nice i think might be the chance to "modify" early game weapons though manufacturing, like happens with the shiny niner, for example the rusty blade might become "renewed blade" while tommy might become "short tommy", without the stock and therefore more lightweight

Things like bootleg gauss guns made by Earthers playing around with alien tech, or kustom-made space pirate guns. I'd like to see more like the Laslock Shotgun and Plasma Tommy, the Hydra Laser and Magneto-Plasma Gun, or maybe something that uses Standard Laser clips. Maybe a Laslock Rifle manufactured once you've researched Flintlock Rifle and Laser Weapon Disassembly, or a Plasma Musket (Plasma Blunderbuss?) at a suitable mid-tier tech level. What about a Boarding Gun or Super Shoota that's been upgraded to shoot laser or plasma? Maybe a Flintlock Rifle upgraded with Gauss parts?

Well actually why don't have both of these chances, that is to say modify, improve and or/upgrade weapons through manufacturing  with new technology?

Overall I think there's plenty of near-past and modern-ish guns and not enough near-future or far-future guns.

Well i actually always thought the contrary, but i never made deep progress into xpiratez so really can tell with certainity

The Watchtower map is... kinda big for the mission itself or is just me?

On second though Fugazza is right, maybe shorten the map fot that mission, plus make "comms tower" mission an improved/hardened version of such, maybe adding a fence around (like warehouse wars ones) and maybe a gate with two (or four) guardin boxes near the edges. On the gate itself might be placed also a faction logo, so we might know who are fighhting/pillaging 

As for megapol and dark ones, i think itmight be room for a couple of mission for each other. Raw ideas.

1) a megapol misison named "megapol sting" where the cops are after some mutant gal or whatever any other characther

2) a misisonwhere a strange portal is spawned  - an althar in the middle of the map - and the darkers are coming out, it id required to be stopped

[shinr]

Sometime ago I played Huntdown, an Amiga-inspired 80s-flavoured action game, and had some thoughts:

1) What if the Ballers were expanded into a mini-faction with different units, such as Melee only Ballers, Beefy Ballers, Groupies, Cheerleaders, Managers (both the western and japanese types) and more? (Thought inspired by the hockey-themed Misconducts gang); (Note that I haven't reached the grav-ball content yet)

2) Technically, X-COM Game Over mutants are already in the game as Half-Ubers, but not the quad-armed variant AFAIK. What if there was a mutant quad gunslinger? (Thought inspired by a Huntdown boss at 3:00)

[alex-g]

 Can we finally reverse base loadout up to down(so that the hangars are located at the bottom) and stop lose hands with every base assault. Not that it couldn't be fixed with a free design option, but tired of that bs.

[Psyentific]

Can we finally reverse base loadout up to down(so that the hangars are located at the bottom) and stop lose hands with every base assault. Not that it couldn't be fixed with a free design option, but tired of that bs.

Main Menu screen -> Options -> Advanced -> Geoscape -> Custom Initial Base: YEA
This will let you place the starting base structures in any arrangement you desire.

What if there was a mutant quad gunslinger? (Thought inspired by a Huntdown boss at 3:00)

The 40k mod is calling, they want their Kelermorph mutant gunslinger back.

[alex-g]

Main Menu screen -> Options -> Advanced -> Geoscape -> Custom Initial Base: YEA
This will let you place the starting base structures in any arrangement you desire.

tnx cptn obv, I'm already told about that

btw that not a point, point is why that bs it still exist

[Delian]

Well, the north-east map block of Hangar (XBR_17) has two xcom spawn nodes. I guess those are there intentionally to make it feel more like your units were caught unprepared when you got invaded. You can technically edit that block and remove the two spawn nodes if it bothers you too much, but know that you'd be messing up with game balance that way.

[Psyentific]

I actually like that spawnpoint because, at least in my experience, it usually places a 2x2 unit like Armored Car there if I have any garrisoning the base. A normal unit will have quite a bad time because it will get swarmed under, but something somewhat durable and killy (as most 2x2 units are) can instead come out of the door and gun down a bunch of enemies at their spawn then break LOS behind the door at the end of the turn.

[ontherun]

Things like bootleg gauss guns made by Earthers playing around with alien tech, or kustom-made space pirate guns. I'd like to see more like the Laslock Shotgun and Plasma Tommy, the Hydra Laser and Magneto-Plasma Gun, or maybe something that uses Standard Laser clips. Maybe a Laslock Rifle manufactured once you've researched Flintlock Rifle and Laser Weapon Disassembly, or a Plasma Musket (Plasma Blunderbuss?) at a suitable mid-tier tech level. What about a Boarding Gun or Super Shoota that's been upgraded to shoot laser or plasma? Maybe a Flintlock Rifle upgraded with Gauss parts?

Sorry don't wanna double posting but was reading again what Psyentific wrote and it's  an interesting point. Would be really useful some weapons upgraded to plasma or better yet gauss ammo (eg after researching "gauss ammo" and "gauss basics"). That 'd provide a decent alternative to withstand at least most advanced factions like the mercs, since getting academy engineering seems to be quite difficult (and somewhat boring). For example a flintlock rifle upgraded to use gauss ammo, 3/4 shots per clip. dmg 60. Something similar might happen with some let's say 5/6 weapons (pistols, rilfes and a couple of smgs).

Another thing: crysslid slis not a church exclusive unit, but is emlployed also by eridians: might be clarified in the game plot such thing? Obviously after the usual research...?

[alex-g]

 Come back after a long break and definitely liked the changes of the early air game, but there is a feeling that lack of hangars doesn't let you breathe. You need too many ship aerbus, v8 for race, expedition for underwater, then you need space for bird craft so on.
 Maybe it makes sense to give the player 3 hangars from the start.

[Solarius Scorch]

Come back after a long break and definitely liked the changes of the early air game, but there is a feeling that lack of hangars doesn't let you breathe. You need too many ship aerbus, v8 for race, expedition for underwater, then you need space for bird craft so on.
 Maybe it makes sense to give the player 3 hangars from the start.

Hopefully this will be addressed in some way after introducing hangar type options in the game code.

[shinr]

With MicroProse's name popping out here and there recently (most recently with Not!Desert Strike-like Cleared Hot), I remembered about original MicroProse's first of their ill-fated foray into Adventure Games genre, Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender-Bender, a pulp sci-fi similar to but sadly not on par with Space Quest, though a bit more raunchy as it takes place on a post-Gender-War planet where the women won and the men went extinct.

Here is an Archived Something Awful Lets Play if someone wants to take a look.

[Nikodemos]

Hopefully this will be addressed in some way after introducing hangar type options in the game code.

So different tech tiers for ship hangars will be implemented in-game at some point? Ex. low-tech garage for Gunwagon/V8/Trucks/etc., low-tier air hangar for Daredevil/Buckaroo/Little Bird/etc., higher-tier hangar for battery craft/jet fighters, advanced hangar for codex ships/flagship? That would be genuinely awesome.

[Solarius Scorch]

So different tech tiers for ship hangars will be implemented in-game at some point? Ex. low-tech garage for Gunwagon/V8/Trucks/etc., low-tier air hangar for Daredevil/Buckaroo/Little Bird/etc., higher-tier hangar for battery craft/jet fighters, advanced hangar for codex ships/flagship? That would be genuinely awesome.

I think the change will be limited to small and large hangars, but I can't say for sure.