Nay

Arm Your First Fleet or your Admiral Fleet Like Nuts Then

Because there is one thing to consider, what research you have to do to get the admiral ships, whether or not to require a certain number of capital ships before you can get admiral ship or how much it will cost to get an admiral ships etc, and the abilities. Unless someone could name at least 4 abilities that an admiral ship should have my answer is nay.

Superduper ultra ship? Nay.

I do like the idea of an admiral that you can put on a capital ship, who then grants... I dunno, some form of fleet buff, though. That could be nifty.

yeah, i like the idea of these hero admirals/ace pilots etc... (a little less for ace pilots though, individual SC can die a bit too easily)

i would personally prefer a destroyer to a super dreanought whatever.

just something with multiple banks/weapons like a cap ship, but no abilities, and not as potent as a cap ship (i.e. not as damaging)

it probably wont go through, lots of people are afraid of more ships or anything that might tip their precious precocieved strategies

but oh well

isn't having a high level cap pretty much the same thing as having a "admiral ship"  a lvl 6 cap is already several orders of magnitude more powerful than a lvl 1 cap.  I do like the idea of having some kind of experience for other units tho, to give some sort of value to keeping your ships alive.  maybe only 3-5 lvls instead of 10 like for caps.

opposing viewpoint:  experience for fleet ships would make losing one battle even more detrimental to the overall game, so maybe its not such a good idea, the boost exp gives would have to be small enough to not tip the balance too far.

Here's my suggestion for flagships.

The flagship would start out like a regular capship, however, its max level would be 12 and it would be able to level its super ability up 2 levels.  These upper levels would only be available at level 11 and 12 so early fleets wouldn't see too much difference.  Each race would have a choice of 3 of their race's capital ships to use as a flagship, with each races' battleship always being available, and 2 of that races more iconic ships (Evacutator for Vasari, Marza for TEC, etc) being the other options.

This could also open the option of a new win condition for destroying an enemy's flagship, sort of like an assasination game.

I used to play a space RTS that was a lot like sins. In it you could build a "Fleet Academy" where you could train admirals. The admirals all had different types of buffs, some buffed fleets, some buffed a single ship, some buffed SC, some added another ability to the flagship. and some did both. When you trained an Admiral, it would build a shuttle, that you would then target a specific ship in your fleet. The shuttle would dock with the ship and it would then be the permanent flagship of the fleet. I think something like that would be stellar. You could only train I believe it was 3, out of a 5 possible choices. I can imagine that would probably be pretty easy to MOD, but I don;t know I'm not a modder.

Certainly very doable. You would have to create just a small shuttle like mesh, give it an ability that only targets capital ships, then give it the behavior that stabase constructor vessels take when hey vanish and the starbase appears, just no starbase of course.

Maybe someone should wave down the devs.

supership nay

Buffed capital yay

Update: Abilities can indeed be rigged so as to work after phase jumps (Was pretty certain, but it's nice to know, y'know?), and better yet, everything else is trivial. I'm going to work on hacking together a quick'n'dirty version of this... muahahaha.