User blog comment:SolarKnight2/Planetary Ships (Custom Concepts, not real)/@comment-76.176.29.59-20191116061955

1. Mercury: Like the idea, but and extra 75 metal for basically a puma is terrible. Missiles have a very slow initial firing velocity. So it's high speed makes it useless during a fly-by.

2. Venus: Basically just a more expensive myrmidon. It would be a lot more interesting if it used just autocasters instead.

3. Terra: Very interesting unit. A pseudo carrier that also heals. I think this might be useful on long maps. But it's two vastly different functions means it will never be able to get mods that benefit both functions. It will end up either a carrier with an useless healing turret, or a healer that makes useless piranhas from time to time. Still cool thou

4. Mars: Broken af, with 60 dmg shots a piece, it'll be incredibly good against all campaign factions due to their concentrated turrets. Whiling literalling costing 250 energy for 3 bombracks. Needs a little fine-tunning on the price and weapon damage. But otherwise a very original ship

5. Saturn: While it's original, it's ability doesn't really make sense in this game. A close combat capitol won't be very good any stage of the game. Cloak won't do much good because of the ranged missile turrets. Freeze & Blackholes will render it useless. It's high metal cost doesn't help either.

6. Uranus: 600 energy 450 metal laser turret. It's high fire rate means you can frame glitch it at 2x rate of fire. Otherwise useless

7. Neptune: The best idea of all. I love it's cloaking ability. Opens up so many more possbile strategies. I do think 2 ships cloaking each other is a little too OP, making the Neptunes themselves immune to the cloaking effect would balance them out. Since it basically adds a fourth mod to all of your units.

8. Pluto: A ship that's like its namesake. Small and useless. Speed is terrible on anything that doesn't have lasers or AoE. Armor is way too little. At least cutlasses with shield A/shield B can survive a laser hit

Appreciate the work put into brainstorming these designs. Shame they'll never be added to this game.