Now tbh im sorta dead against this or mainly was but i was on EVE and chatting about this very thing, how would CCP do it, what would the EVE pilot do etc n all tht


The basic idea that mercs can board your ship to **** you up is like whut? how would they do it but also whats to stop the EVE pilot from hitting the self destruct button? nothing tbh

The self destruct mechanism is 60secs in EVE now for a big ship 60sec to run up and down the decks isnt enough time and so in EVE the timer would possibly have to be extended for bigger ships like cruisers and above but it wouldnt really to EVE since normally ppl prefer to lose the ship fighting and self destruct isnt used tht much (to my knowledge)

So just say the self destruct mech is started by the EVE pilot in a drake and the timer is 2min or maybe 2.30 so its fairly short but to extend the timer you can damage various parts of the ship to shut it down, so like destroying the cap rechargers and the engines and the power grid etc, well the more important a part is the more time is added to the clock and if the ship is damaged enough then the clock stops altogether because it is unable to self destruct and would prob count down the clones to whoever wins


For me think of Alien when Ripley sets up the self destruct sequence and the whole ships starts venting and all the main lights go and its flashing lights and generally dark with a computerized voice saying how long is left and what has been damaged or destroyed completeley and the more the ship gets damaged the more the voice is destroyed so its starts skipping words and mass repeating things

But also if the power grid is smashed then tbh the ship would be in darkness, maybe basic electronic things like doors would jam and lock shut meaning more hacking needed or even cutting tools, computer access is down longer hacking times

If the engines are destroyed on the port side it may start leaning

If the hull is breached zero G atmosphere is introduced etc etc


I was against it but the more i do think about it the more fun it could be


Anyway had to get it out, dunno if any ideas had been in other threads and tbh couldnt be arsed to look