I hate it when someone /explodes to take away my kill.
> if the arena seekers can do it to us
They don't /explode. They fire rockets.
-:sigma.SB

Like I said, if you want to remove it fine, then take out the kamikazi bots from the game. If we can't do it why should they be able to? I've seen them explode, no rockets.

Well its simple, the self-destruct timeout is hardcoded into your ship so that you have some time to deactivate.

It's hardcoded to protect TPG and other similar ship manufacturing corp's from legal issue. (Someone drops their coffee, hits the self -destruct button... etc)

The Aerna Seekers, OTOH, are designed with explosion in mind, They are are essentially missiles with advanced AI, which detonate on contact. It is not a self-destruct system, but rather a prox detonation.

Actually I'd like to fly a Seeker =). That would be fun!

Tuuurrbbbooo........boom!

Just give the last guy to do damage to you the kill if you /explode.

Zap. No more incentive to /explode from a fight, and if no one has damaged you within a minute or so, then no one gets the kill and you just die.

Why bother with a timer and messy movement rules?

still against it all together, keep it as it is

Johnhawl : What do you propose we do to the "legitimate tactics" of exploding to deny a kill? If you intend to want to leave it there, do you intend to do it too?

I have /exploded to defeat the bounty system (once, and it was because I was mining, and had no guns, I did threaten to another time, but didnt)

I usually /explode to travel around faster, I dont care about my death count, as anyone with an alpha badge can say, I have died more than that. (Hey, i got reset 3 times! You should have seen my deathcount the first time round...)

Maybe im just being leetist, but if /explode was removed, so should be: (copied from manual, cos i could not be bothered.)

+TurnLeft turn ship to the left
+TurnRight turn ship to the right
+TurnUp turn ship up
+TurnDown turn ship down
+StrafeLeft strafe to the left
+StrafeRight strafe to the right
+StrafeUp strafe up
+StrafeDown strafe down
+RotateCW roll ship clockwise
+RotateCCW roll ship counterclockwise
+Accelerate accelerate forward
+Decelerate accelerate backward
+Turbo turn on turbo boost
+Brakes slow down the ship
+Shoot2 shoot weapons in the active primary weapon group
+Shoot1 shoot weapons in the active secondary weapon group
+Shoot3 shoot weapons in the active tertiary weapon group
Turn turn ship left/right
Pitch turn ship up/down
Roll roll ship
Accel accelerate forward/backward
StrafeLR strafe left/right
StrafeUD strafe up/down
throttle sets ship speed from 0 to full speed

nuff said.