You didn't need to lose consciousness in a 104 to die. They called it the "Flying coffin" or "Widowmaker" for good reason
Here are the Canadian 104 list of ejections only http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Aircraft_by_Type/Canadian_CF-104.htm
Death from oxygen depletion should result in pilot blackout - not ship destruction
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Here are the Canadian 104 list of ejections only http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Aircraft_by_Type/Canadian_CF-104.htm
That is rad, would make sense for the multiple crew ships.
What???? We re-spawn in Denmark if we run out of air? When did this happen?
Could be worse, it could have been Belgium. (Ref: Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy)
Cute justification, but with a homing signal you'd think people could easily salvage said ship (and pilot). I mean, if we're recovering the pilot that's ejected (who is in some kind of life maintaining stasis field connected with the ejection seat, I guess), why eject at all? You die, and whatever the seat does to signal rescuers goes off anyway, and you're still in your bubble inside your ship.
Now I'm perfectly happy with the above explanation as a justification for the protocol. But I would like to see a future update change the effects if possible. You could still have it that you and your ship is rescued and your ship requires all the repairs it would need anyway, plus a towing fee
No one said the pod teleported. As far as we know, if could have a one-use FSD drive with a distress beacon
I actually can get behind the whole "ship explodes" notion if you consider the hypothesis that the ejection pod is somewhat built into the main ship body. If life support is failing, you could still fly to dock or be helped by someone. But when the oxygen supply ends, you're done. Therefore, when you "die", the ship blows up to eject you in a stasis ejection pod. Makes complete sense.
Fair enough... but why blow up your ship to eject?
If you're part of a remarkably egoistic society, you destroy the ship when ejecting so no one else can get it.
Or from an structural point of view, the escape pod can assemble around the pilot's chair and need to break from the ship's main body and through the bulkheads to eject clearly.
That's not to mention ships like the Clipper or the Dropship that are property of an specific faction and may have special engineering that cannot fall into the wrong hands.
Could be worse, it could have been Belgium. (Ref: Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy)
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(although, this sort of thing happens to me on a daily basis: I respawn in Belgium every time I wake up
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Might not be a bug. Were they T Tauri type stars? They look scoopable but in fact are not.
Officially, the escape pod transports you back to the last station you visited or, if you lack the insurance premium, back to your initial starting location.
They only way this makes since is teleportation. How else can you travel 60,000ly crash your ship and instantly end up back at the Cosi system?
How does this work?
My personal explanation is that when I "die" the ship's FSD implodes. The awesome power of this implosion is what powers the Rimlock Skintight™ Spacesuit's quantum entanglement circuitry to instantly record and transmit the active state of every molecule in a pilot's body and transmit that quantum information back to civilized space where it, depending on insurance adjustments, the pilot's active quantum state is reconstituted from organic matter extruded from a patented Rimlock Vat-tastic™ containment device.
They only way this makes since is teleportation. How else can you travel 60,000ly crash your ship and instantly end up back at the Cosi system?
How does this work?
My personal explanation is that when I "die" the ship's FSD implodes. The awesome power of this implosion is what powers the Rimlock Skintight™ Spacesuit's quantum entanglement circuitry to instantly record and transmit the active state of every molecule in a pilot's body and transmit that quantum information back to civilized space where it, depending on insurance adjustments, the pilot's active quantum state is reconstituted from organic matter extruded from a patented Rimlock Vat-tastic™ containment device.
In original Elite when your ship exploded you ejected out with escape capsule and you were returned to your last saved space station somehow. You could also covardly shoot other pilots escape capsules to get criminal ranking. You could also fuel scoop escape capsule, to get some slaves in your cargo hold
I'd like to see death be a thing in Elite, but only if there was a way to differentiate between survivable situations and certain doom. For example, you crash your ship against the station, it's reasonable to assume you're recovered and allowed to go to insurance. You crash into a star, um... not so much.
quite like the idea too
To which I respond with
[video=youtube;sCoHT_cHPzY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCoHT_cHPzY[/video]
In ED when oxygen is depleted computer is sreaming "Eject" and immediatly after that your ship is exploding, this is a bit confusing. Are you dead or are you ejected to space? I like the idea of escape capsule. Escape pod ejection should happen to downward, so your seat is lowered through floor to your escape capsule and launched to space.
Didnt read all the replies but you don't die.
He/she/it rasps a bit then blacks out and you hear the computer say eject. So you lose oxygen but bail before death. You are then in a life support capsule that blinks to a home station.
The ship then self destructs so no one can get their hands on your info and ship as it's all linked in.
Makes perfect sense to me and is v cool.
He/she/it rasps a bit then blacks out and you hear the computer say eject. So you lose oxygen but bail before death. You are then in a life support capsule that blinks to a home station.
The ship then self destructs so no one can get their hands on your info and ship as it's all linked in.
Makes perfect sense to me and is v cool.