An Idea on Death.

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Bit of a sombre idea. Sort of. Lol

I'll get to the point.

How would you feel, if on death, you ejected in to an escape pod, and floated about?

I had some ideas about how to make this rewarding.

Firstly and most importantly, you can always skip this bit. If you die, you can just choose to resawn in your last dock. Just as you do now.

But if you choose to wait. Then what?

Well, your pod becomes a POI visible from up to 1000ls, or a targetable POi on a surface, and always in Open, and broadcast on the Galmap for anyone with that filter active to see.
Rescue time!

Players can then rush to save you, or just blow you up. Lol it's a risk you'd have to take. (You already died once anyway! Lol)

All they have to do is scoop you up, and return you to any dock to respawn.

All while being fully able to skip this entirely. If you don't like what your 'rescuer' is doing, you can just respawn.

The pros for awaiting rescue is firstly, immersion. If you like that sort of thing.
Secondly, you can also *possibly* keep some, or all, of your exploration data, bounty vouchers, etc, etc, which you'd ordinarily lose on death. You can also respawn in whatever station they drop you off in, in your last ship too. Assuming it fits on the pad. Lol
As a reward for patience? I dunno.

I'm not entirely sure how to handle the logistics of it all. Logging off while in someone's cargo bay would probably abort the rescue attempt, and when you log in, you'd be back in space in a pod again or something. I dunno.
No idea what type of view you would have either. Probably 1st person in the pod, with the ability to use the camera. And be in the camera mode in the rescuers ship, or join as crew if a slot is available.

And once again, you can just skip the process entirely.

Just a random early morning idea.

Thoughts?

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

 

[Marc_Hicks]

Not, perhaps for our Commanders......but it would be nice if there was a chance that our active crew-members could escape ship destruction & be rescued by us. With certain modules that could help to increase that chance.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Not, perhaps for our Commanders......but it would be nice if there was a chance that our active crew-members could escape ship destruction & be rescued by us. With certain modules that could help to increase that chance.

I already suggested that one.

I thought this idea would kinda fall in line with many other games. Particularly Arma 3.

When you die (in some Multiplayer modes) you've got about 5 minutes to be rescued/revived by a medic to continue where you was. Or you can respawn back at base, which could be 10s of km away, then you'd need to get a ride back out to the front line.

So translating that in to ED. You can loiter in your escape pod awaiting rescue, but for your patience, you get rewarded with no, or little loss of data/vouchers. Maybe even cargo if no one took it. And you can be brought to the nearest base and do your rebuy from there.
Or you can just rebuy normally.

While in PvP, your attacker would likely just kill your escape pod anyway.
In PvE, particularly explorers, or bounty hunters who have gone wrong, can await rescue from a Fuel Rat type service, or a friend. Even more useful, if your ship is destroyed while you're off in your SRV, you can call in help, eject in to an escape pod, and let someone give you a ride to a base.

Or something. Lol

 

[Teh Smoo]

Or, more simply, you are ejected into a pod (capable of planet-reentry) and can be rescued in space and on a planet. The pod should have a timer, for the oxygen bottle that any sane person would mount inside it.

At any time, you can choose to simply respawn, same rules as currently.

But if your pod is taken to a station, your rebuy is halved. I like the idea of all non-cargo data (exploration, bounties) being preserved as well. It would definitely nudge players who play in wings to bring at least a size-1 collector limpet and a limpet or two along.


But, if your ship is destroyed while you're in your SRV, you did something horrifically wrong.

And hey, if you log, your pod can stay in space, and people can rescue/kill it. Worst-case scenario is you login in a station with a normal death, best-case scenario is you login in a station with your data and half rebuy, or maybe you login and you're still in space and you can yell for help.