Suggestion: being able to eject

[etien]

When the ship says "eject eject" I wish we could eject. Done in time, we would save some of the insurance ( so it is worthwihile ) and have to fly to a station ( cannot go to another system ) if no station tough. You could be rescued as well. Oxygen should be in limited supply to spice it up. The ejecting mechanism could use a slot. I thing that would be cool.

 

[Siranui]

We do eject. That's why we aren't dead.

 

[Commander Dave]

Yarp.
We already eject.
There's just no ejecting animation like there used to be in the original disk version of Elite on the BBC Micro.
I remember sliding out the back of the ship and arriving back at the station.

 

[Tiamat]

Also, it wouldn't save on your insurance as your ship is still gone and if you had to eject a long way from the bubble there is no real chance of a rescue. What you describe would be cool for ironman mode but that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon.

 

[Trafalgar Law]

There was originally supposed to be an Ironman mode where you would have had to manually eject. If you failed you would be dead. Unfortunately that mode seems to have gotten dropped along the way.

 

[Vorxian]

accidentally eject in Sag A - that'll make for an interesting time!
Hope you can re-board yer ship! Think i'd rather blow up with my ship than get back to the bubble in a pod teehehehehehhehehee

 

[ick]

The only thing that bothers me about a destruction is loss of cartography data. I suppose it is a good idea for destruction to have consequences.

 

[etien]

Ok; still It would be nice to click on something before Kaboom and get a reward for it; like keeping all the data (exploration or mission related).
Also rescue operation of ejected folks could be cool as well as seing the spacecraft moving away from you and boom. Etienne

 

[Huggy]

I'd say it's only a matter of time until you see commander escape pods and NPC escape pods (do you let NPC's go, do you scoop them up for their bounty/sell into slavery or just kill them) coming into the game, especially with the introduction of the ship onboard fighters!!!