Robert Maynard
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Not a kill - certainly a marooning - the equivalent of being dropped on an island in the middle of the Pacific with no means of getting home.
Should destroying thrusters count as a kill?
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Not a kill - certainly a marooning - the equivalent of being dropped on an island in the middle of the Pacific with no means of getting home.
Seems like anything that remotely offers any sense of risk shouldn't be allowed in this game. I often get the impression people sit around contemplating things that rarely ever effect them. The game is far from challenging and if someone (NPC or player) can take out my thrusters and leave me sitting there then I'm fine with that. I'll toast their cunningness and hit the self destruct.
We could also have some meaningful distress signal in game where we might get a helpful ship or a pirate.
Whats the problem?
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I have never been able to "putt around" with disabled thrusters.
Disabled thrusters = DEAD
I think thrusters should be able to be repaired, seems strange that they can't.
Voted NO
To quote mortal combat . . .
FINISH HIM or HER
To quote mortal combat . . .
FINISH HIM or HER
Maybe 'marooning' should be a crime? The problem here is people literally being able to get away with murder. If they got a similar bounty for killing thrusters then that would solve it.
Ultimate outcome upon ship destruction: Respawn at station, pay for insurance or get a Sidewinder.
Ultimate outcome up thruster destruction: Respawn at station, pay for insurance or get a Sidewinder.
Since there are NO EXCEPTIONS you cannot argue that it is somehow a lesser crime to destroy the thrusters.
Ultimate outcome up thruster destruction: Respawn at station, pay for insurance or get a Sidewinder.
Since there are NO EXCEPTIONS you cannot argue that it is somehow a lesser crime to destroy the thrusters.
Just build up enough lateral speed to jump, then turn off FA and align your ship with your trajectory.
And this is different from killing them...how?
Perhaps you could call someone who DOES have the expansion (or an NPC) to come to you and preform the repairs.
The poll asks if thrusters should be considered a critical component. I say "no" as insta-death on thruster destruction would take away the amusing circumstance I mention (and the important educational opportunity, re: logic).
I don't mind if the resulting death counts towards the perpetrator's kills though.
Ideally, as others have suggested, we could use auto-repairers on them or they would retain minimum functionality but since they don't, I agree killing thrusters should have a comparable penalty to destroying a ship.
Whilst I agree with your suggestion, it is worth keeping in mind in terms of emotive language that there is no actual death involved, just loss of property. Our suits are auto-magic-jumped to the nearest starport, rather than resurrected.
The poll was not worded well for the topic of the OP so it is not really a misunderstanding on the part of the reader. I voted "no" on the technical grounds that I don't think it should count as a critical component. I think that would then mean ship destruction at present and it doesn't make sense to me.
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Well, I'm new here. 2 days into the game, on my second life, and I'm happily flying through space. Something happens on my 4rth jump, I get pulled out of FSD, and voila! my thrusters are disabled.
tried self-repair, no luck.
self-destruct.
Calling for a towing service when something like sensors getting destroyed or thrusters gone, or letting the auto-repair do a long cycle repair and giving your ship at least 25% capacity to limp back would be nice - something still frustrating, but within the scope of realism.
I enjoy the hardcoreness of life in Elite, but gamepaly wise i struggle with this implementation. Some method of self repair without needing a repair unit, something to ease players in, while still making it a huge pain when it happens would seem to me a better choice than simply having to self-destruct (and nevermind surf the web to figure this out as my only option to keep playing)
Really enjoying the game but this aspect of forced self-destructs could use a look imho.
Well, I'm new here. 2 days into the game, on my second life, and I'm happily flying through space. Something happens on my 4rth jump, I get pulled out of FSD, and voila! my thrusters are disabled.
tried self-repair, no luck.
self-destruct.
Calling for a towing service when something like sensors getting destroyed or thrusters gone, or letting the auto-repair do a long cycle repair and giving your ship at least 25% capacity to limp back would be nice - something still frustrating, but within the scope of realism.
I enjoy the hardcoreness of life in Elite, but gamepaly wise i struggle with this implementation. Some method of self repair without needing a repair unit, something to ease players in, while still making it a huge pain when it happens would seem to me a better choice than simply having to self-destruct (and nevermind surf the web to figure this out as my only option to keep playing)
Really enjoying the game but this aspect of forced self-destructs could use a look imho.
to make matters worse now i cant leave space station on respawn, looks like I caught a bug
Unless all your subsystems were under 5% you should have been about to use the reboot option on the functions menu and restored your drive to 1% and limp home
https://youtu.be/FWWAIbnKMvA?t=611
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Hm.
"Should destroying thrusters count as a kill" and "Should thrusters count as a critical component" are two and very different questions. I voted re first one, but that vote should be revoked.
"Should destroying thrusters count as a kill" and "Should thrusters count as a critical component" are two and very different questions. I voted re first one, but that vote should be revoked.
