Very annoying ship capture system in otherwise good game.

[Harald]

Having a ship capture system that relies on blind luck without any possibillity for the player to affect that chance is just a poor design and very annoying for the players. Especially when the chance is so small that you might as well go out and buy a lottery ticket instead.

There are many possible ways to do a better system that gives the players more tactical options regarding capture and still be restrictive enough to not capsize the game economy.

You could have a captured ship retain all damage inflicted upon it or make it so that the player only get parts of a ship (like battletech) requiring them to find x number of parts to get a complete ship. Or you could make boarding a requirement for capturing and make that a very costly affair. I am certain that we all could come up with many good ways to handle this in a better manner than just blind luck.

[VaeliusNoctu]

Początkowo opublikowane przez SolarDawning:

You probably didn't need to necro this thread, because a couple major updates ago the game changed so that you do automatically capture a ship that is defeated via boarding. :)

LOL, I bought the game yesterday.
I expected this patch to take longer to arrive.
The last post was just a little over 2 months ago.
But good to know, a half-baked Capture system would probably have stopped me from really liking the game.