I think you can already do this in SC, can't you?
Not sure how you access panel 4 / self-destruct if you're on a planet and no other ship for you to steal.
"Prepare to be boarded!"
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I think you can already do this in SC, can't you?
Not sure how you access panel 4 / self-destruct if you're on a planet and no other ship for you to steal.
Seconded. This is planned according to the roadmap.
I play a game called "From Other Suns." If you know FTL, it's exactly that but in VR.
You're attacked by pirate ships and often you end up boarding their ship, killing the crew and stealing their cargo. Sometimes you're boarded. You can play coop with your friends. It's a lot of fun.
Equally, right along with this I would suggest an alternative ending.
The boarding party meets limited resistance. Only to find the commander of the ship no where. Mean while, a self destruct klaxon begins emitting. Started from the engine room.
The boarding party turns and runs for the access point.
Only to have their exit closed. On the other side, the grin of the commander as he waves, then disconnecting from the ship. Flying off and away before the ship detonates in the distance.
When you corner a snake, do not forget that is when they are most dangerous. Because in the corner, as you approach. You are the thing they are eager to strike and you are now the easiest target to hit.
The boarding party meets limited resistance. Only to find the commander of the ship no where. Mean while, a self destruct klaxon begins emitting. Started from the engine room.
The boarding party turns and runs for the access point.
Only to have their exit closed. On the other side, the grin of the commander as he waves, then disconnecting from the ship. Flying off and away before the ship detonates in the distance.
When you corner a snake, do not forget that is when they are most dangerous. Because in the corner, as you approach. You are the thing they are eager to strike and you are now the easiest target to hit.
I'll leverage an overpowered Combat Ship (IE:Engineered Corvette) to shortcut the materials gathering process which Frontier implemented PRECISELY to stop Commanders using a Single Activity (be it Combat or Trading) to obtain the most Powerful Vessels and encourage commanders to carry out a variety of different activities...
THERE...corrected that for you
This is the flipside request (For Commanders who do Combat) to the "oh why can't we just buy materials with Credits..." (From Commanders who do Trade)
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With you aboard? Why should he do that, why shouldn't they defend and just shoot you with a pistol?
But in general I like the idea.. (from The Expanse books)
There's the cool idea, the wonderful dream, the fantastic concept. And then...
^ There's the Frontier approved reality.
Wonder though if FDEV would consider it a bannable thing if in an RMT transaction if I say gave another commander IRL money for exchange of an A rated engineered cutter?
Wonder if it would open up a can of worms. Someone with no Fed rep wants a Corvette? Sure, he pays me money, irl money, and I buy a vette kit it out, he boards, shoots me, takes ship, transaction completed...
Wonder if it would open up a can of worms. Someone with no Fed rep wants a Corvette? Sure, he pays me money, irl money, and I buy a vette kit it out, he boards, shoots me, takes ship, transaction completed...
OP: your npc pilot would blow up that ship with you on it? Better get a more loyal one...
OP: your npc pilot would blow up that ship with you on it? Better get a more loyal one...
I'll have no leverage otherwise....unless I take a crack-team of Imperial Commandos with me.
Doubt it would be insured... one ding and hes lost it all.. i say fairs fair
Boarding kind of borrows from the X games where it was either good fun or a complete disaster and you lost all your marines. It was kind of in Rebirth but the missions where it was required were so heavily scripted it just completed, whether or not the "grunts" made it. The difference was you didn't actually go in with the "mooks" but you got a running commentary with various shouts and breaching sounds. In Rebirth you also needed to send a crew across or at least a captain, before the captured ship could be moved.
Usually ended up with a hulk capable of about 4 m/s until you got it to a shipyard for repair but I grabbed quite a few heavy transport ships (in X3 TC) with my Vidar that way, with a big saving over buying the hull from scratch. It would be interesting how boarding would fit in with C&P and might be something more suited to PvE and of course it also brings into question the need for a mechanism to manage more than one player ship in space at one time.
Usually ended up with a hulk capable of about 4 m/s until you got it to a shipyard for repair but I grabbed quite a few heavy transport ships (in X3 TC) with my Vidar that way, with a big saving over buying the hull from scratch. It would be interesting how boarding would fit in with C&P and might be something more suited to PvE and of course it also brings into question the need for a mechanism to manage more than one player ship in space at one time.
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I don't think that's coffee you've been drinking, might want to see a doctor about that....
I thought that would be a cool feature the devs might implement in the future back when elite was first released. I no longer believe that FDev are capable of that kind of scale.