That would work, but inevitably spins up the salt generators to the echoing chorus of why can't the PvP folks board other players. And from the other generator room will emerge a whirring sound of why can't general PvP combat be disabled.
The problems in option 1 would still apply to NPC ships, and there would be much traffic on the forums about why we can board an NPCs ship but not the identical ship of a player.
To be fair, I've never seen NPC-s rebooting their ships or use AFMU-s. They just happily spin away into the sunset, taking potshots at you when they happen to momentarily face in your general direction
Thank for adding the link. "Not currently on the roadmap" is how almost any professional product manager with spiky stakeholders says "we ain't doing it for the foreseeable" - so I see Tim's words here as evidence that it is not base building.
"The statements which sounded like a roadmap turned out to be mostly correct. I am going to take that as evidence that a further explicit statement in the same communication, that something is NOT on the roadmap is... wrong."
Perhaps those who want PvP could sign up as mercenaries to defend boarded ships, like they can man the guns of others’ ships?
Of course it wasn't.... But I knew that already, and the 'source' of your fantastic statement.
Is that water polo?
Racetracks could totally be a thing with the tools that base-building provides, especially if there is a way to lay down paths/roads.Throwing here another idea, that is not base building, mining, planet zoo or underwater horse riding.
SRV racetracks.
It's a cool feature, doesn't affect the economy, BGS, PP, it feels relatively easy to implement and stupid as it sounds, it is no more outlandish than other hypotheses.
And it would be amazing to ram a racetrack with a T10 during an event.
If the g acceleration and its effects is not modeled then it won't be a problem.
You can count on that.
Yes, I was thinking of that. Racetrack building without base facilities could be an option.
Sure, you can choose the lazy way out and not model G effects. But that would break the established rules of the Elite universe. Stations spin because there is no tech for artificial gravity. Walking in outposts is done with magnetic boots. Acceleration has effects on ship's pilot--if you accelerate your ship in any direction you will shift in the pilot seat and if you pull a hard turn in orbital glide you'll black out. Fall damage is a thing in Odyssey and you cannot disembark on planets that have more than 3G surface gravity (this makes high G-s officially too dangerous to work in!). If you board a ship, it boosts and that has no effect on you whatsoever, how does that work? At the very least it should pin you to the nearest bulkhead and incapacitate you.
