Will it be possible to adjust power? From weapons to shields to engines? There are many possibilities... when the capital ship is attacked, it turns off it's engines and powers up it's weapons. Traders can use more shields or engines than weapons. Also, will ships make a bigger impact by ramming things?

You mean will it be possible to be just like Star Wars?

this is also possible in wing commander... shield/power adjustment, that is.

I would rather see representational damage. (Not sure if that is a word but if it is I know I spelled it wrong)

So if I get hit in the front until its red but the back is still green a hit in the back won't kill me.

Yeah that's a good idea Durg, If we put that and grunadulaters idea together that would be pretty cool. I'd go for that. Oh and durg you spelt it right.

Yeah, that'd be cool.

Durgia: I've seen some pretty good hit location systems - Battletech and Starfleet Battles come to mind. But they all have two things in common. First, that damage to destroyed location is transfered 'inward' to an undestroyed location. And secondly, that large ammounts of damage to one location 'cripple' that location and destroy certain subsystems. Without those two attributes, a hit location system doesn't work out.

Jm262: I'm not sure Durgia's suggestion and grunadulator's have anything in common. It's easy to talk about 'transfering energy' but at present that's completely meaningless and I'm not entirely sure that it would do anything useful for gameplay.

I think mechwarrior 4 has the same thing, so if you hit them in the back, there goes engine(they would need to have a slow repair, though about 1 minute, no sense in being stranded for 5 dies till you suicide). If the engine is destroyed and they keep shooting, then they'll start hitting the cockpit, or frontal area. The question is what would the wings be? maneuvarability handicaps or weapons damage?

I'll just point out that we don't have shields.

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