Hijacking ships

Malatose

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Just what it says. The other night I fought a Conda that got some lucky shots in and downed my shields. I decided to punish him a bit for scratching my paint, so after taking out his power in mustache twirling fashion I disabled his life support.

This got me thinking, why can't I tow that thing back to dock? Or spacewalk over? Or fire an autopilot limpet and get it somewhere? Or call in a tow truck. Seems a shame to waste a ship when all you gotta do is replace the power core and life support and sweep the bodies out the airlock.

First, it would make for a great, fun mechanic. Second, it would give combat pilots another source of income. Third, if implemented in Open it would give the pirate a great reason not to destroy the ship.
Of course you'd have to make it difficult so I'm thinking a multi mission type setup. You disable the ship and life support. This makes you a VERY wanted man in the system and security comes after you for a while. You fight them off while the tow truck is incoming or whatever.

Lot's of possibilities.
 

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
It would be hugely fun to steal ships. But imagine the chaos.

The AI is too dumb to defend itself from such things, give it 15 minutes with that feature and everyone would be towing home their own Anaconda's. Lol

Chaos.

Still a fun mechanic none the less.

Finding abandoned ships in the wild would be cool.
To salvage it, you'd need an expensive salvage licence, and a mission to spawn it. then it needs repairing, as well as some way to get it home.
Then maybe it goes to a "lost and found random numbers game".
If after X amount of time, no one claims it, its yours. If they do claim it, you just receive a good reward. Or, you can attempt to hide it and fly it, but being scanned will result in showing up as stolen wherever you go, and you can't sell it. Making insurance invalid, and you become very wanted. ??



I remember messing with the pilot ejection rates in X3:TC.
I set it too 100%. Within 1 hour I had about 50 ships at my command. Lol
Fun, but totally ruined that game for me. Now I try not to cheat. Lol
 

Shadow_Frost

Shadow_Frost
It would also give commanders a reason to hit that "Self destruct" button. "Oh you may have taken out my life support system and be boarding but hear that? 3, 2, 1....you're coming with me."


Or while they're on their way to you, you head to theirs.
 
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