What motivates spaceship investment? (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Friday, May 09, 2014, 19:05 (3859 days ago) @ Xenos

My guess and hope is additions to your ship provide small in battle benefits. Want a better motion tracker? Equip your ship with a radar dish. Want more ammo capacity? Add in a (stylish!) weapons locker. That sort of thing.

Interesting ideas!

Except Bungie has said you don't get to fly or fight in your ship. It's for getting from place to place, and you don't get to control it.

I believe he's talking about on foot combat. So your ship would be flying over head to provide these things for you.

Indeed. I'm thinking your ship will only ever show up as it zooms by overhead dropping you off, but maybe upgrades you add on can benefit you from its unseen position somewhere far overhead. I just feel there's too much concept art and too much featuring of the ships (even in the very first Destiny video) for the ships to be so unimportant to be merely cosmetic.