Self-destruct should do damage to other ships in range...

[Krystal]

What i'm getting at is that self-destruct should be a desperation move players can do to try and take their opponent with them. The current version of self-destruct takes 30 seconds but i think if they made it do damage you should have a ten second countdown giving the opposing player if in pvp a chance to get out of dodge or attempt to take them out before they blow up as they will be notified of the self-destruct 5 seconds before. Why 5 seconds instead of when the player activates? Simple: Have you see how fast some ships can go from 0 to full speed in under 3 seconds? and many ships could clear the self-destructing player without a problem.

But depending on the ship that may not be possible:P

So for small ships the damage done would be the lowest with the smallest damage AOE in a 3D space but anyone more than 300 meters away would be untouched and anyone within that range would take damage but the farther away the more the damage would falloff so if you were on the edge of the 300 meter radius you would take some shield damage assuming you had shields but it most likely wouldn't hurt your hull.

However if you were lets say, right next to them when they blew, you would take massive damage and if your shields were less than 200 hull HP was less than 500, you would be toast!

Needless to say, the bigger the ship, the bigger the boom. Now to balance this out, the bigger the ship, the longer the timer as well plus earlier notification For example a ship like the anaconda would take 20 seconds to self-destruct with the opposing player(s) notified at the 15 second mark so if they could charge up their jump drives fast enough they could get away.:P

While i think this idea could use more tweaking, i like how it looks atm but what do you all think? Also, i have this clip in mind for when i hit-self-destruct which is kinda what inspired this post :P (never freaking mind, spent an hour trying to find the clip only to find NOTHING.) It's the scene in gundam wing when duo says: "Follow me on my journey to hell!" and attempts to hit is self-destruct button.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, it sounds so freaking lame when i just "type it out"..why does the internet have to be so STUPID and have everything but NOTHING i want to find at the same time?

[malorob]

The List off adds and removals

many people use to jump from one systems to another and end up flying so close to the star they would blow up from the heat this make sense. many of us did it back in the day.

But too many people complained about it so now i can fly in a E rated side winder no shields and no blow up. " many of the community wanted that aspect removed so they did

also the super cruz assit was never in game another group of people hated doing the circle of shame.

also the docking computer another add by the devs because people could not land there ship.

then the auto launch added and the list goes on.

I get the feeling your rant could also be because the community did not like that sort of thing so the devs eliminated it

even the scanning of the system use to be different but again changed for the better so they said.

it would of been great to see how Elite turned out if no one complained about anything.

[Sighman]

Just curious how the self-destruct would somehow create a much, much bigger explosion than the ship being destroyed.

[Krystal]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Just curious how the self-destruct would somehow create a much, much bigger explosion than the ship being destroyed.

My idea and theory is that each ship comes with a chemical explosive payload that is only activated in self-destruct and the timer is pretty much how long it takes the payload mixing to create the explosion reaction. It's kinda like how despite how small C4 is, it can make a massive explosion.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by deathsia:

Originally posted by Sighman:

Just curious how the self-destruct would somehow create a much, much bigger explosion than the ship being destroyed.

My idea and theory is that each ship comes with a chemical explosive payload that is only activated in self-destruct and the timer is pretty much how long it takes the payload mixing to create the explosion reaction. It's kinda like how despite how small C4 is, it can make a massive explosion.

WWII pilots flying over enemy territory had an incendiary fitted that would destroy the aircraft if it slammed into the ground. Makes that kind of service sound even more dangerous than it already was.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Originally posted by deathsia:

My idea and theory is that each ship comes with a chemical explosive payload that is only activated in self-destruct and the timer is pretty much how long it takes the payload mixing to create the explosion reaction. It's kinda like how despite how small C4 is, it can make a massive explosion.

WWII pilots flying over enemy territory had an incendiary fitted that would destroy the aircraft if it slammed into the ground. Makes that kind of service sound even more dangerous than it already was.

Quite a few Navy ships used to have blocks of magnesium bolted into their hulls, to help prevent rust... You can probably guess how that went when they got hit...

[Jeebs]

If you think about it logically, it makes sense that the ships in Elite actually DON'T make a huge explosion that would damage nearby things. A station wouldn't be able to shoot down a criminal otherwise. Taking out pirates and other criminals in any heavy traffic zone would also be problematic.

Besides, I don't know what kind of power plants they run on, but if it's fusion they would more than likely implode violently rather than explode, as far as I know. I could be wrong, and given the insane amount of power that would be required to accelerate to FTL speeds or open a wormhole, it's very likely that they're running on some exotic matter.