Oh, Ok then. So you have to choose between air combat and ground combat, yeah I can agree with that, plus it makes the Hyperion actually usable, because you can take a big ugv instead of the missing men.
Are the pods supposed to be visible for the ground mission?
In that case the firebird still needs an overhaul, because that nose absolutely can't take a pod.
Or you have to add an mechanism to define which hardpoint can take a pod or a weapon and which can just take a weapon.
Hmm, how abot moving the fuel tanks over to the hardpoints, after all, they are pods. or is that out of the question as well?
One would have to choose between air/ground weapons and flying range. Plus you could add another hardpoint to some aircrafts without risking to realy make them stromnger.
It would help in the redesign of the firebird, because two small hardpoints on the sides are more feasible then one medium one on the tip.
Still another idea is an asymetric loadout, like one medium hardpoint on the right and one small hardpoint and both equipment bays on the left.
Realy hope some of these ideas are usefull and don't again hit a wall of made decisions I'm not aware of.
