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[KittyTac]

Title. You would construct spaceships out of "tiles" with varying stats, then battle each other. Emergent fun! It hasn't yet passed the "well-formed idea" stage, so suggestions are welcome!

[dgr11897]

Well two suggestions i have for this are
1. make it so tiles have an affinity, affinities would be tied to different races or factions each affinity having it's own unique theme/mechanic. Players would only be able to use tiles with their affinities, these would be either decided by the players, or given out randomly.
 another thought is to make ships with more tiles of the same affinities gain bonuses.
2. Potentially make the game team based, more chaos that way, a cool thought to go with this is that each team crews their ship during battle, taking actions and manning stations.
3. power distribution/specific tile placement as a mechanic, have each tile consume, transmit or generate power, and/or if you go with the crew idea, having certain tiles have hallways going in a specific direction.

[askovdk]

The (excellent) boardgame Eclipse have some kind of modular design that perhaps could be of inspiration.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72125/eclipse/images?pageid=2

The tiles are used to show how each of the many ships are designed, and doesn't represent actual metal on individual ships.

[quantumpotato]

Hey, check out the Board Game Design Lab for good resources
http://boardgamedesignlab.com/