Yaffle
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Like a hyperspace bypass?
Are indestructable Space Stations realistic?
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Like a hyperspace bypass?
From a practical point of view, how would this work in an instanced universe? How would the universe be kept consistent/
Station xyz is destroyed by players in one instance.
What happens to all the ships currently docked at xyz but in other Instances???
Do all the other instances of station xyz suddenly blow up for no apparent reason to the players in those instances?
Mat
Station xyz is destroyed by players in one instance.
What happens to all the ships currently docked at xyz but in other Instances???
Do all the other instances of station xyz suddenly blow up for no apparent reason to the players in those instances?
Mat
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Of course they are destructable, but not by the weapons players can own/use
A station isn't indestructible, it's just beyond the ability of the kind of ships players fly to do. A station has enough power it ought to be able to unleash the "cannon of doom" on any ship that attacks it.
Think the need for a capital fleet with big guns.
Think the need for a capital fleet with big guns.
Frontier said that we could see of space stations under construction in the game I wonder if these space stations will be destructible
Guys, guys... Where did all this talk about station annihilation come from :S, I was suggesting something a little less dramatic like a fender bender, that's all.
Perhaps in the final version, we will see teams of workers working on space stations for the repairs
Agreed. The whole Panama analogy doesn't work here. Panamax vessels exist because there's a natural hindrance that can't be (easily) overcome. Elsewhere in our world ships and aeroplanes get bigger and bigger. To accommodate them, bigger and bigger (air)ports are built.
I hope that the Coriolis station is a remnant from ye olde days of space and that other, newer designs will have realistic amounts of space for big ships. It's a big immersion breaker for me that space stations wouldn't exists with a) plenty of space for the biggest ship and b) enough space for at least two ships of the biggest size to pass each other. Otherwise it's external docking but that seems obsurd for ships 'only' the size of the Lakon.
Yes, or like this
Surely you realize that bases under-construction can be fully-operational...
Yaffle
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I'd love to see a station big enough to take a capitol ship, I mean, they must need to go into a "dry dock" occasionally, surely surely!?!?!
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Robert Maynard
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Guys, guys... Where did all this talk about station annihilation come from :S, I was suggesting something a little less dramatic like a fender bender, that's all.
Allowing players to be capable of rendering a station inaccessible (from the OP) would allow players to deny others access - not quite as dramatic as destroying the station - but denial of access all the same.
I can quite easily believe that all of the destruction in Gravity was a chain reaction caused by a commander somewhere in Earth orbit failing to park a Lakon correctly.
I lost a perfectly good Cobra last night hitting a canister in the station entrance and then getting wedged in the 'toast rack'.