Self destruct

[NoAverageJoe]

Just wondering if there should be an ability to self destruct. Be self destruct i do not mean backspace and kill yourself, i mean an ability to make your ships reactor(s) go into meltdown and explode, destroying your ship or most of it.

This option would only be available to the engineer that built that reactor, or all i dont know what ever the community thinks.

Or instead you should maybe have to keep the reactor topped up with cooling rods as well as "Ur" so you may well be stocked with fuel but if you do not have cooling rods the ship will go into meltdown and explode.

What do you think?

[Figgleherp]

I think thats a pretty nice idea actually especially if you want to ram a ship into another one and detonate its reactor

[Malak]

It's been discussed extensively in another thread and we seem to agree that reactors do not blow-up(just meltdown), but that an explosive block should exist for this purpose as any military ship would have this. At the minimum, an EMP to make your ship unuseable to the enemy if captured.

[[NOCS]Ticio]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=246638893

[Hazode]

You could actually make a very crude slef destruct by using a thruster aimed towards a warhead on your ship, just turn the thruster off in the control panel when you want it to be safe, and then when you leave your ship (or want it to blow up) turn the thruster on and it will be armed. Of course, your world needs to have thruster damage enabled to do this.

[Spotty2010]

Another way to do it (I believe shown in the video posted by Ticio) is to use a rotor with a metal block arm on it that will collide with a warhead as the rotor arm does a full circle.
You can delay the explosion by setting the rotation speed to a lower speed, allowing you to get away before the blast. To arm just turn the rotor to On and run away before the arm collides with the warhead. In most cases you don't need to completely destroy the ship, but only disable it. So placing them near the power generator, cockpit, or thrusters would work well.