DUST Search - How Boarding could Theoretically Work

J'Jor Da'Wg wrote:

In a combat situation EVE battles don't last long enough to make it feasible. You would be sitting in the game lobby still when the enemy ship died. Now heres the ONLY way I could see it happening.

Your gate camping or something and find a lone ship. Throw up stasis webs and slow it down. Then, a frigate with specially equipped CRU modules are fired at the enem ship. The frigate is locked down and cannot do much else during this period.

The CRUs can be targeted by the enemy ship and killed. If the CRUs latch on, they brcome spawn points with a set number of clones.

From there on you have to fight to destroy or disable the capsuleers pod inside, all while enemy mercs contracted to fight you fight back.

If you succeed, the enemy ships pod pilot dies, and the enemy ship is set to follow the frigate that launched the pods closely. The ship can also be ordered to dock in a station, warp to a certain point, give itself to another pilots control, etc.

Not perfect but the best way to do it I can think of at the moment.


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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf Seraphim Initiative. CRONOS. 3064	Posted - 2012.08.25 07:45:00 - [1] - Quote Glad this idea hasn't disapeared, I still really want this.
KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf Seraphim Initiative. CRONOS. 3064	Posted - 2012.08.26 08:39:00 - [2] - Quote To give a reason for boarding, ship-boarding should be for capturing ships intact, since boarding just to destroy would be kind of pointless since other ships could do it faster than some mercs could. I really like the sabotage idea; messing with the insides of a powerful ship that would otherwise be unbeatable to give challengers an advantage. A special cloaking modules should be part of the boarding pod to prevent the ship from being destroyed. Special E-warfare module must be on the pod as well to disable the self-destruct option, and to prevent the ship from escaping. There must also be an NPC version of this mode so players in Highsec can experience ship environments in combat.
KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf Seraphim Initiative. CRONOS. 3064	Posted - 2012.08.26 19:24:00 - [3] - Quote J'Jor Da'Wg wrote: In a combat situation EVE battles don't last long enough to make it feasible. You would be sitting in the game lobby still when the enemy ship died. Now heres the ONLY way I could see it happening. Your gate camping or something and find a lone ship. Throw up stasis webs and slow it down. Then, a frigate with specially equipped CRU modules are fired at the enem ship. The frigate is locked down and cannot do much else during this period. The CRUs can be targeted by the enemy ship and killed. If the CRUs latch on, they brcome spawn points with a set number of clones. From there on you have to fight to destroy or disable the capsuleers pod inside, all while enemy mercs contracted to fight you fight back. If you succeed, the enemy ships pod pilot dies, and the enemy ship is set to follow the frigate that launched the pods closely. The ship can also be ordered to dock in a station, warp to a certain point, give itself to another pilots control, etc. Not perfect but the best way to do it I can think of at the moment. If the goal is to loot a ship, or steal the ship itself, then it would be good incentive to refrain from just quickly destroying the ship. To keep others from destroying it, a module can be built into the boarding pods for cloaking the victim ship from others that would potentially destroy the ship while the battle goes on inside.