ED technically speaking has pad ramming, but I don't think its possible (or easy) to do. Ships on pads have instant regen shields and i don't think can take hull damage (IIRC, FD did it this way to stop pad ramming), and the attacker will be instagibbed by station weapons.
Technically:
If youre actually landed / docked, youre safe, youre covered by the Base shields and are invincible.
While landing / taking off you can be rammed or shot.
Shooting gets a fine until you die then a bounty and
then the base defences will open up on the attacker.
Ramming - if attackers speed below 100ms its an 'accident' with no penalty. If above 100ms its an 'attack' and a fine or bounty if ships destroyed.
Its not hard for a large ship to just crush a smaller noobs ship into the ground or the pad and destroy them at 20ms, just mass will crush and destroy.
So its possible to do without penalty. But its frowned upon as its asinine either way.
I do not use suicide except when I'm stuck in an asset. Meeting other people in rescue missions is part of the fun to play the alpha.
Ive driven my car off a cliff in GTA and had a 20 minutes swim back to somewhere I can can climb out.
In ED I think the closest analogy is running out of fuel. You can either wait and blow up, self-destruct or call out the Fuel Rats (Hull Seals if hull damaged). Other players have set up vast organisations that will literally come out to you anywhere in the Galaxy (50,000 LY across, 400 Billion Systems).
So in ED your 'exit' point is lost or not lost but you gonna lose it if you dont call for help....and this can mean months and months of gameplay lost at the same time....other activities are safer. If you damage your ship do you risk the hour to the Space Station or wait 2 hours for the Seals to come and help?.....
Ive never played a game that is so harsh on the player at times as ED. The ability to lose months of gameplay with one mistake or no mistake (enter a System trapped between 3 Stars and overheat to death for example)
Though if you dismiss your ship there is chance of autopilot bungling landing of the ship. It has happened even in low gravity bodies, and is more probable in high g ones.
Dont think that happens anymore, it may do but I think it was patched.
Despite nearly a decade of development, absolutely oodles of cash, and the logical and physical impossibility of this state - Star Citizen somehow manages to only be half a hole.
But its the best damn hole ever, this is no Z-hole youre talking about you know, CIG is one top-grade first-class A-hole!
Something something infinite monkeys something Shakespear.
If you put a thousand monkeys in a room with a thousand typewriters and somehow fed them and kept them alive for a thousand years......you certainly wouldn't want to go in that room afterwards.
Or something like that
tbh I thought of the same Shakespeare proverb and wondered if CIG were actually in the process of disproving it.
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