Just watching the Stream and seeing all the wonderful fleet combat, so I'm curious; will it be possible to have boarding actions and capture ships?
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Ship Capture?
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There doesn't seem to be any boarding action going on. It wouldn't really be "realistic" in my opinion, though.
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realism he says......
I think it should be added....in some circumstances ships should surrender if they can't escape or boarding parties added as it is in most scifi trope...
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It is put in quotation marks for a reason there...
I think of a lot of possible additions to the game, I would put stuff like boarding pretty low on the priority list. It just isn't really a thing in naval warfare for some time now.
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Any kind of modern weapons makes mid battle boarding action obsolete. Point defence, auto guns, traps and self-destruct all make boarding close to impossible and very costly for the attacker, with minimal pay-off.
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When done right it will be a useful buff for "army" part of our military. Right now I plan to ignore ground combat in favor of navy like I always do for space games. (Funny how it is complete opposite for earth games like EU4)
As for mechanism:
FTL the indie game taught me beaming boarding parties to the other ship is not only balanced, but fun
As for mechanism:
FTL the indie game taught me beaming boarding parties to the other ship is not only balanced, but fun
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We need boarding ships and the option to focus on close combat and capturing enemy vessels.
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Boarding ships is cool, what is cooler is pirate ships boarding! Yarr! But obviously not in release version.
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How about the crew just straight up surrendering? Not everyone fights to the death.
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Even then most crews would probably destroy their ships (like the German fleet sinking itself in 1918).
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Capturing an enemy ship would be kind of cool. But I would expect the rational would follow along the lines of surrender rather than boarding. Then the ship could be studied and possibly allow a science type discover/reverse engineering bonus over what can be done by studying wreckage.
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sci fi trope not necessarily realism.......besides not everyone wants to push the self destruct button.
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Anyone want to use the Janeway-Pie!
They normally can get out of the ship after they activated it, btw.
And yes, it could be in the game, but it would be a lot of work to implement a decent mechanic for it, with little effect in the game.
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it would be nice to have, but I agree in the grand scheme of things it isn't high on the to do list.
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First post, here we go~
Boarding parties may not exactly be the most realistic thing ever--
However, one could instead implement the mechanic of ship-thieving Homeworld-style with capture corvettes or drones to latch to an enemy vessel, hack into it, and use said vessels own drives and systems to impulse its way back to either a friendly station or specalized capital vessel.
The hacking bit is a little far fetched when dealing with innumerable alien species possibilities with countless possible methodologies to technology - but - static binary is indeed static binary so... eh?
Dano. Would be cool to see as a mechanic. Maybe just allow it for systems with one of your own starbases in them to discourage enemies from sending small harassment raiding parties. And while immediately turning around and making a ship fire on it's former allies 12 seconds after it's been latched onto isn't exactly realistic, interning said vessel into lockdown and using it for research as a special project or even just as a diplomatic asset would be cool.
Boarding parties may not exactly be the most realistic thing ever--
However, one could instead implement the mechanic of ship-thieving Homeworld-style with capture corvettes or drones to latch to an enemy vessel, hack into it, and use said vessels own drives and systems to impulse its way back to either a friendly station or specalized capital vessel.
The hacking bit is a little far fetched when dealing with innumerable alien species possibilities with countless possible methodologies to technology - but - static binary is indeed static binary so... eh?
Dano. Would be cool to see as a mechanic. Maybe just allow it for systems with one of your own starbases in them to discourage enemies from sending small harassment raiding parties. And while immediately turning around and making a ship fire on it's former allies 12 seconds after it's been latched onto isn't exactly realistic, interning said vessel into lockdown and using it for research as a special project or even just as a diplomatic asset would be cool.
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My thoughts are kind of along with the Expanse series, where the Martian battleship looses either the CIC or Engineering and self-destructs. Why wouldn't you have AI that auto rigs the ship to explode when it is lost to a strike team? I guess smaller ships could be captured but what would be the real point of that? Also PDC would rip boarding parties to shreds.
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Assuming anyone would be stupid enough to send boarding parties over while there's still operational point defense.
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