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Cascading ship failure

Sep 09, 2005 mgl_mouser link
In the current universe, there's uniway for the ship to take on dammage.

The armor basically takes all the blows until you redline no more and end up with (what I like to describe to myself as) a catastrophic engine failure wich makes you go boom.

It'd be really nice to have cascading ship failure as you take hits. Eg,

at 50%, you loose the aft radar
at 30% you loose the bow radar
at 15% you loose turbo capabilities
at 10% you loose WH jump capabilities
at 5% you loose hull integrity and loose cargo
at 0% you loose what's left of your dignity

Any thoughts?
Sep 09, 2005 genka link
I think you're the master of original suggestions!
First the damageable stations, and now this! Just GENIUS!
Sep 09, 2005 Lord Q link
genka,
you should have a theme song, for situations like this
Sep 09, 2005 genka link
Still looking for one. I'm too special for any old song, so the search has been a tough one...
Sep 09, 2005 Gavan link
Has it already been a week?
Sep 09, 2005 genka link
No, I just figured a mill wasn't worth the ulcers I was getting from holding back.
Sep 09, 2005 KixKizzle link
hahahaa GENKA LOST!
Sep 09, 2005 genka link
I lost when I agreed to it.
It'll take me a month to recover...
Sep 09, 2005 Jona link
[Awfully sorry to interrupt Genka's inverted march to fame, but somewhere among all the posts in this thread is a suggestion and an opening for feedback]

Good idea, though I think it would change the current face of PvP in Vendetta. Perhaps not much, though. As long as the cascading failures starts at a low armour count (I'd rather see the failures begin at armour 50%, or possibly less, than early in the battle).

Of course, I'm still waiting for rechargable energy shields in addition to armour, so perhaps I've gotten this whole ship battles thingie wrong...
Sep 09, 2005 fooz2916 link
Interesting...but I'd like to input some my changes

Losing radar would be really annoying, b/c you wouldn't be able to find out if you're about to be ganked, so I think that the radar should instead have a 3-sec refresh time.

Also, taking away turbo? You might as well be dead right there. Maybe 300% turbo drain.

And 15%: Disable Mouselook and/or FA
Sep 10, 2005 tumblemonster link
Sep 10, 2005 Harry Seldon link
I was kinda thinking the All Your Base Are Belong To Us techno dance track...dernit, can't find it..