General Eject, Eject, Didn't Eject!

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

One thing I noticed with my thoroughly detailed testing of rebuy mechanics in Odyssey was that, they're exactly the same.

The other thing I noticed, is when you blow up your ship, and your computer shouts "Eject! Eject! Eject!".
You don't actually eject.

My suggestion is simply, when you're close to the ground (because we don't have EVA yet), and you get shot down (or in my case, crash), during the "eject" phase of dying, you should be able to quickly tap a button to actually eject.
(Same with the SRV).

Now imagine that, you just get shot down, and you eject and watching your ship disintegrate below you.

Then you're stranded on foot.
Ok I haven't thought that through yet...

So part 2 of this fantastic idea is,
You just call in an Apex.
Or
You can get a crew member to come pick you up in one of your ships.

Done! Serves absolutely no purpose.
But I like it.

 

[varonica]

One thing I noticed with my thoroughly detailed testing of rebuy mechanics in Odyssey was that, they're exactly the same.

The other thing I noticed, is when you blow up your ship, and your computer shouts "Eject! Eject! Eject!".
You don't actually eject.

My suggestion is simply, when you're close to the ground (because we don't have EVA yet), and you get shot down (or in my case, crash), during the "eject" phase of dying, you should be able to quickly tap a button to actually eject.
(Same with the SRV).

Now imagine that, you just get shot down, and you eject and watching your ship disintegrate below you.

Then you're stranded on foot.
Ok I haven't thought that through yet...

So part 2 of this fantastic idea is,
You just call in an Apex.
Or
You can get a crew member to come pick you up in one of your ships.

Done! Serves absolutely no purpose.
But I like it.

Except you're 20,000ly outside the bubble with limited power and no Apex, all you've got is your ship wreckage to build a survival habitat and you have to stay alive until help comes or you are perma-dead!

 

[metatheurgist]

Except you're 20,000ly outside the bubble with limited power and no Apex, all you've got is your ship wreckage to build a survival habitat and you have to stay alive until help comes or you are perma-dead!

Time for the suit self-destruct function. I do think this is a cool idea otherwise, just have it happen without a quicktime game.

 

[aRJay]

Except you're 20,000ly outside the bubble with limited power and no Apex, all you've got is your ship wreckage to build a survival habitat and you have to stay alive until help comes or you are perma-dead!

So you open the emergency compartment in your ejection seat and take out the inflatable emergency habitat, the small packet of potatoes (marked do not eat) and an instruction booklet written by somebody called M Watney.

 

[varonica]

So you open the emergency compartment in your ejection seat and take out the inflatable emergency habitat, the small packet of potatoes (marked do not eat) and an instruction booklet written by somebody called M Watney.

Po-tay-toes! Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish. Sam Gamgee!