Joran Myokenes
13
   |
Posted - 2012.09.30 20:36:00 -
[1] - Quote
I've talked about this before when someone brought this up on the requests thread. There are a lot of technical and lore related problems to do with having battles on spaceships .Let's tackle the lore first:
- Capsuleers are gods of their own ships, play FTL and you will understand why boarding ships is exceptionally difficult. If you don't want to bother buying the indie game, I will explain. There's this little thing called vacuum. It's when there's is no matter in any area, none, nothing, nada. This void will actively attempt to suck in any matter it can. Specialized shapes and materials can be used to prevent a vacuum from damaging it [insert 200 page science thesis here]. If someone boards your ship, you have two solutions, you can send opposing mercenaries to kill these vile soldiers, or you evacuate their area(optionally), lock down the zone, and vent the atmosphere out every single airlock nearby. There are solutions to this. You can require specialized space combat dropsuits. Essentially just a regular dropsuit with condensed oxygen tanks and electromagnets on the sole of the boot. But if space combat were added even with these dropsuits, it would likely end in an EVE player seeing a jet of oxygen come out of their ship along with a couple of unfortunate mercenaries.
- What would happen when the ship starts to take structural damage, or it is destroyed. Would all the mercenaries die? Would they, again, be sucked out of the ship?
Now, for the technical problems
- How would you manage to get a defensive crew in fast enough, or even an attacking crew. Beyond getting them in fast enough, how would you get them in at all. Boarding pods? A shuttle?
- The EVE and Dust servers are already going to be under strain from what CCP is adding. Now we're suddenly going to add a battle and interior to an entire ship this is definitely not healthy for the servers
I don't want to seem like a nay-Sayer for fun, but there are a lot of problems with a space battle mode for combat, however, if you were to have something like this is space stations, there would be a lot more things you could do, and a lot less issues. |