Let us assign a flagship to Heroes

 I would like is that the ship's actually came and bigger classes over time. Level 8-12 upgrade to medium, 16-20 large.

Aitarus wrote:

If they were to get unique ships, though, I would prefer to see accented versions of the faction you are with.

The hero style looks far too close to the Republic (think Ebon Hawk from KOTOR) from Star Wars and not the white-Vodyani aesthetic that Isyander and the academy actually have.

exactly, i dont feel them, and i love vaulters design.

heroes are not from our faction, really? they are vaulters they are imperials etc. so i dont get this whole thing with academy. academy could be somethig that teach them but not strip them from their identity. heroes are unique only from pic, thats a shame they are all use same kind of ships, if we cant assign them to a ship, we could at least upgrade theirs to medium and then to large version. it would be veeeery nice.

Aitarus wrote:

There are also clearly a number of people who would rather they were not.

More choice is a good idea: why not allow both?

I agree. Honestly id love both choices, but id assume adding in the systems would take time. If it would go to having a brand new addon or dlc or adding both features. I'd prefer one or the other. 

That being said I would rather the devs expand on their original idea, I do really like Starpoint Gemini: Warlords because it too has a warlord/hero system. In that game as the warlords get stronger they get better unique ships. Just my 2 cents :)

Noob Aitarus. GG can't deal with hero toy ships so bad.

Tsrintox wrote:

Id prefer something closer to an assigned ship class upgrade so it stays unique to the heroes and academy. Maybe 3 tiers of ship and as you advance the ship allows for more systems. Maybe unlocking based on a separate requirement or a mini quest objective.

I'm more for this. The fact that we have unique hero ships now is exactly because it was often requested that heroes be represented in battle as unique entities. Giving them normal ships just makes them seem like just another indistinguishable part of the fleet.

Id prefer something closer to an assigned ship class upgrade so it stays unique to the heroes and academy. Maybe 3 tiers of ship and as you advance the ship allows for more systems. Maybe unlocking based on a separate requirement or a mini quest objective.

Very cool and simple idea !

MUST HAVE! !!!!!

Anything adding lore and immersion is great. I believe that scrapping the current hero ships would be good because you can consider (as said somewhere up there) that they are part of the academy at the beginning. But they should definitely scale up somehow, totally agree with jwaz on that. 

Also, some more models depending on the race/origins of the hero would be so much cool, and could be an alternate (or combined) option. Great ideas.

I like the academy ship designs and I don't see Amp straight up removing them. I do think they're awfully underpowered in late game, but I was thinking, rather than assigning a flagship, have the academy ships become bigger and meaner as you unlock tech stages in the military quadrant, or maybe when you unlock the strategics slots for regular ship designs, much like how arks become bigger and stronger as you unlock stuff.

I have seen it - and not really. It locks you to a particular hull. I would like to see the devs fully implement the hull choice system for heroes.

This idea ended up becoming a mod on the Steam Workshop more or less. Perhaps it's what you're looking for?

This is one of those things that irks me.  At the outset the ships are nifty, but they are quickly eclipsed by the better hulls your Empire can put out, and it really is bizarre to imagine a large fleet being commanded from a tiny little corvette of foreign make.  The argument about heroes all being Academy members doesn't really even apply like it did in ES1, since your quest heroes are all exclusive to your particular Empire, and a lot of them don't seem to even mention the Academy.  

Plus it makes little sense for them to be married to the ships when you can even have them fight against the Academy.