If you’re anything like me then no woman has ever managed to satisfy you as well as an exploding capital ship. Lately that is the only thing that pops into my mind.

Though exploding capital ships are a lot of fun it is not necessarily the best or wisest course of action to destroy such an expensive ship, unless you happen to be so big that resources are no longer a problem to you.

My question is, would it not be better if you could board large dreadnought type ships and take them for your own. I mean to say that perhaps the game should have a boarding mechanic. Obviously if all you have is a fighter and your “fleet” consists of another fighter and a mining frigate, your chances of successfully boarding and taking over a dreadnought are about equal to my chances of coming home tonight and finding Angelina Jolie in my bed wearing nothing but whip cream.

BUT if you have a dreadnought the best thing you could get is another dreadnought.

Now of course that for a boarding action to be successful you would need to have some sort of superiority in numbers or technology. Perhaps your dreadnought could “duel” the enemy dreadnought whilst a small fleet of boarding craft simultaneously launch to take over the enemy ship.

Besides the obvious boarding actions, what if say a dreadnought was knocked out of order during combat, NOT Destroyed, and after the battle was fought and won, then you could salvage it. Salvaging and repairing a dreadnought would be in itself an expensive operation but its cost would not compare to building one.

Waiting to hear everybody else’s thoughts on this.

Hadrianus wrote:If you’re anything like me then no woman has ever managed to satisfy you as well as an exploding capital ship. Lately that is the only thing that pops into my mind.

But yeah, now that crew is confirmed I'd very much like to see the possibility of boarding ships.

Hadrianus wrote:If you’re anything like me then no woman has ever managed to satisfy you as well as an exploding capital ship. Lately that is the only thing that pops into my mind.

O.O 0.0 o.o °•° *slowly back up*

I agree with thymine, now with crew confirmed boarding is just a small step

Hadrianus wrote:If you’re anything like me then no woman has ever managed to satisfy you as well as an exploding capital ship. Lately that is the only thing that pops into my mind.

Too much information.

Can we keep these forums family-friendly, please?

I'm not sure boarding is that small a step, since it requires some way of modelling the interior as a physical space - even if it's a simplified one - rather than just assigning crew to roles.

McDuff wrote:I'm not sure boarding is that small a step, since it requires some way of modelling the interior as a physical space - even if it's a simplified one - rather than just assigning crew to roles.

Something that idea we discussed in IRC could also help resolve, but I don't thing you necessarily have to model the interior of ships at all for a minimal implementation of a boarding mechanic.

ThymineC wrote:...minimal implementation...

Nope. Nooooope.

Behemoth wrote:

ThymineC wrote:...minimal implementation...

Nope. Nooooope.

Well I'd prefer more than a minimal implementation myself as well. That's why I'd further press the idea I raised the other day in IRC.

And what was it?

I don't mean you have to represent it graphically.

NPCs enter the ship and move through it, capturing or killing other NPCs and hacking robots as they go, until they have control. Even if you just represent that with green and red blips on a circles and lines node interface, you still have to model it.

Behemoth wrote:

ThymineC wrote:...minimal implementation...

Nope. Nooooope.

Devtime is a finite resource!!!!

McDuff wrote:

Behemoth wrote:

ThymineC wrote:...minimal implementation...

Nope. Nooooope.

Devtime is a finite resource!!!!

Better to do it good, or leave it entirely.

Behemoth wrote: Better to do it good, or leave it entirely.

What do you mean by "good" though?

This could mean anything up to implementing a squad-based FPS element into the game. What level of detail is "good enough" to satisfy?

McDuff wrote:

Behemoth wrote: Better to do it good, or leave it entirely.

What do you mean by "good" though?

This could mean anything up to implementing a squad-based FPS element into the game. What level of detail is "good enough" to satisfy?

Procedural star citizen

More likely that not, you would just see your boarding party's ship leach on the enemy ship,
and them it would be a stat fight between whoever though to stock up on more/better space marines.
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