You know, all the time I'm maxing out my cargo capacity by removing my shields, I get these notifications like "hull integrity compromised" the instant the landing couplers are disengaged. I don't hit anything - I even hold "Thrust UP", hoping to avoid it. The damage is very small tho - a couple of hundred credits, a thousand maybe - but it kinda breaks immersion a bit by making me overly concious of game mechanics.
When taking off from the platform inside a station, you'd think that your landing gear resides firmly on the ground until you fire up your engines to counteract station rotation and momentum. Even if you scratch along the platform a bit - it'd be your landing gears that do the scratching, no? So why the hull damage?
My suggestion is:
It's minor, yes, but every time it happens (and that's frequently) my mood takes the slightest hit, knowing my ship ain't shiny anymore, just because those fools at the landing coupler controls messed it up again... [haha]
Thanks for your consideration
/edit/ps
Alternatively you could add the tiniest delay after take off, where the ship doesn't take damage. Maybe half a second to a second? Just so that I can take off, without hull damage?
Oh and while you're on it... be so kind and disable the tower control message "Please give way to larger vessels!" if you are the largest vessel that fits through the slot (lols).
When taking off from the platform inside a station, you'd think that your landing gear resides firmly on the ground until you fire up your engines to counteract station rotation and momentum. Even if you scratch along the platform a bit - it'd be your landing gears that do the scratching, no? So why the hull damage?
My suggestion is:
- to introduce a threshold to hull damage related to contact with other objects, so softly hitting a tiny container (like scratching your Cutter on a Sidewinder) doesn't do damage to the hull
- maybe apply this kind of damage as "damage to paint" only - even tho the landing gear scratching the platform should not count as paint damage either
It's minor, yes, but every time it happens (and that's frequently) my mood takes the slightest hit, knowing my ship ain't shiny anymore, just because those fools at the landing coupler controls messed it up again... [haha]
Thanks for your consideration
/edit/ps
Alternatively you could add the tiniest delay after take off, where the ship doesn't take damage. Maybe half a second to a second? Just so that I can take off, without hull damage?
Oh and while you're on it... be so kind and disable the tower control message "Please give way to larger vessels!" if you are the largest vessel that fits through the slot (lols).
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