shooting the pilot

[mossfoot]

It's mentioned on the Wiki, but I don't know how canon it is. "The Empire is also a proponent of human cloning" Oh, it's in a Newsletter too.

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=f72c0f91b2

The context here suggests (to me) that this is more in the "spare parts" sense than the "sixth day" brain upload sense.

After all, if such tech existed, why the hell wouldn't the fricking Emperor have a new body by now?

Just say no to cloning as an excuse for respawns

 

[DrakeAurum]

from experiments with NPC ships, Ships self destruct if you take out the life support and it runs out, so I would imagine if you could kill the pilot they would still self destruct

From a couple of Youtube videos, it works that way when a player pilot's air runs out too.

It makes sense that it'd be rigged that way, precisely to discourage this tactic.

 

[SteveLaw]

The context here suggests (to me) that this is more in the "spare parts" sense than the "sixth day" brain upload sense.

After all, if such tech existed, why the hell wouldn't the fricking Emperor have a new body by now?

Probably true, just mentioned it as I only spotted it the other day.

 

[aws357]

The big flaw with this supposedly stellar idea is that the smallest bullet in elite is probably bigger than a cmd noggin.

Mopping required and also most of the cockpit instrument would be busted.

Do we really want elite to become battlefield in space?

[video=youtube;lqDzeyrXxRI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqDzeyrXxRI[/video] <--- it might look cool, but then, please stop using the excuse that Elite Dangerous is a "simulator" .

 

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[Vi.king]

For all I know, the reason this doesn't work is the most unnoted piece of Equipment of all Ships : our space suit.

Can't find it again (it is/was documented somewhere), but that's supposedly the life-saver even under the worst of circumstances.

a suite that can withstand a bullet the size of your head and high energy laser beams that can melt through your ships plating? yeah I´d like to see that one.

 

[Whiterose]

You used to be able to ram the ejected pilot in the original elite....much fun having.

 

[LeetNoob]

This would just bring up the question why we would build this huge armored weaponized steel juggernaut’s and then stick a sheet of glass in front of the pilot. Just look at the Asp, it’s supposed to be a military vessel and there’s a big glass bubble on the nose for the pilot.

 

[Harker]

This would just bring up the question why we would build this huge armored weaponized steel juggernaut’s and then stick a sheet of glass in front of the pilot. Just look at the Asp, it’s supposed to be a military vessel and there’s a big glass bubble on the nose for the pilot.

It's actually a civilian version of the Navy Asp.

 

[LeetNoob]

Civilians with guns, point still stands.

 

[begobogo]

a suite that can withstand a bullet the size of your head and high energy laser beams that can melt through your ships plating? yeah I´d like to see that one.

ha ha can you imagine that, multicannons would rip you to shreds

 

[Rankaze]

If you are "face tanking" at all, things have already gone wrong.



A single lucky shot, once you have allowed your shields to fail and canopy to be shot out, is all it should take.

I'd have no problem with such a system.

I'll concede that part of the problem with the system in SC is that ballistics penetrate shields in that game... so a single lucky shot really is a single lucky shot... one that goes right through your shields, canopy, and you.

Still, I frequently hear that glass shattering sound when shooting up NPC's (especially Sideys and Cobras) while not aiming at the cockpit in particular, so lucky canopy hits apparently happen quite a lot.

The other downside of this, however, is that hull toughness would be even further marginalized as a balance factor between ships than it already is.

Now, if a portion of armor/hull reinforcement were to be applied to subsystems and to the canopy, then I'd be good with it.