Crash damage too high...
- Thread starter Tonkonk
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Learn to fly (my opinion
)It's pretty low now after they reduced it a lot during the betas, I mean you can bump the smaller ships few times at close to max speed and barely lose your shields.
Learn to fly (my opinion
It's pretty low now after they reduced it a lot during the betas, I mean you can bump the smaller ships few times at close to max speed and barely lose your shields.
well I can fly... and no it's not really low I just died in a battle (Viper(me) vs. Imperial Clipper) and I flew very slow (under 100 m/s)
Edit: My shields were almost completely full
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I voted that I liked the way it is currently. I've only been damaged by this once, and in fact blew up. Don't boost into a Python kids.
I met a viper in a belt once. The Vip tried to scan me, missed me and boosted to ram me 3 or 4 times. Myself was flying an Eagle and thank god i had grade A shields to cover that stupid ramming
I think you slanted your poll and left out what option you didn't want.
The ram damage is too low.
The ram damage is too low.
Crashing into asteroids is very dangerous compared to crashing into ships atm ... I was bumping into a type-9 at full speed and after three hits lost maybe half of my shields, ran into asteroid at maybe 2/3rds speed and escaped with 7% hull even though it was a glancing hit.
Died twice to ramming damage the other night. Both were pretty much head on collisions against larger ships. It's fine.
While speed docking recently I met another Cobra in the slot, rolled hard and we only clipped each other sending me careering off and clipping the inside edge of the slot. I survived. Once again, it's fine.
Hitting the bigger ships causes slightly more damage but I've intentionally hit a lot of clippers with a viper to keep their guns off me and bumping them does very little damage especially if you have some pips in the shields.
The imperial Courier has a hull mass of about 400 T. The Viper 60 T. Your speed was 100 m/s. Maybe his was as fast or faster. Thats about 200 m/s combined. If your shields were almost full, and as you were in a fight, I guess you had all pips in weapons and none in systems, making the shields weaker.
No, I think collisons should be pretty rough. There were times in early beta when Federal fighters went on kamikaze runs and instakilled you after 2 minutes in a conflict zone. They reduced collision damage after that, and also AI survival instinct, I guess.
I think its just about right. A couple of times thought **** going to lose my ship and cargo only to bounce off with no shields.
If your hitting ships or getting rammed alot I suggest looking around and using radar more.
Less crash deaths since being unable to boost with landing gear deployed.
If your hitting ships or getting rammed alot I suggest looking around and using radar more.
Less crash deaths since being unable to boost with landing gear deployed.
Missing from each of these recollections is how many pips into SYS.
They've made it far more forgiving than some feel is needed and this thread apparently was created to make it even more unrealistic or more invincible.
They've made it far more forgiving than some feel is needed and this thread apparently was created to make it even more unrealistic or more invincible.
I was looking for that option too. It's far too forgiving now.