Crashing into objects is too forgiving
- Thread starter Bangfish
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just don't accidentally turbo boost inside a station 
Heh, pity you weren't here back in alpha/beta when one of the larger complaints was that the object/crashing algorithm was too harsh.
Then they fixed it
I think it's about right now. I still die most of the time as I'm usually traveling too fast.
they reduced hull damage by 50%+ in Beta 2 because the players asked for it. you can find it in one of the patch notes in the patch forum
What shields do you have installed? How about trying the same thing with only 2 pips to shields? Or none.
I would agree with you, but given the varying levels of skill, that may be all some pilots are capable of.
I'd rather have it be at the level it's at now, than at what it was at before.
A compromise wouldn't be too bad though; make it unlikely that someone will die from a collision, but make it easier to take hull damage. Dying from an NPC flying into you isn't fun at all, but not taking any damage from it is a tad silly too.
A compromise wouldn't be too bad though; make it unlikely that someone will die from a collision, but make it easier to take hull damage. Dying from an NPC flying into you isn't fun at all, but not taking any damage from it is a tad silly too.
I'm not seeing the same resilience in my Asp. Which might be because I only have class 5C shields and usually only have 2 pips in them. That ship in the video might have a 16m credit 6A shield and he's got 4 pips in it. In which case I'd say there is nothing wrong with it being quite resilient to medium speed collisions.
I do suspect that the buildings in the stations do less damage than other cases. I'd love to see those tests repeated but crashing into the outside of the station (or asteroids) with a B or C class shield and just 2 pips in it.
With the suicidal AI... I like the shields as they are tyvm
I haven't tried the docking computer since its first iteration but if they didn't change the way it landed then increasing the collision damage would kill anyone using it pretty much every time...as I remember, once it lined up with pad it would simply slam into it.
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It's a stock Sidewinder.