Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I had this idea playing sisi as I volleyed a falcon into deep structure and then before my next volley the falcon exploded. I was imagining cool looking fires and hull breaches and the a ship explosion spreading some small pieces of small charred metal that didnt melt from the reaction of the ships core. And the ship explosion itself amazing to see the shockwave from a distance from the reactor failing. I think once you hit 0% structure it should start these cool effects, and have a script thats stops all your mods while this 5 or 10 sec ship being engulfed in flames sequence happens. Then your pod shoots out and the final fission like explosion takes place. Take a look at this youtube 30sec clip for an example. I like the ring effect but I dont think thats how a ship core explosion would look like. I really like the ball like shockwave remnants that start at 0:07 and are very visible at 0:11. An example of the shockwave im trying to explain instead of the ring would be like an expanding pos field that looks like the ring shockwave. Another thing that would be cool is have the ship explosions deal AOE damage... range and dmg amount depending on ship size but not alot and each race doing its on AOE dmg type i.e. caldari frig dies=20hp/5,000m AOE kinetic damage. Being so close to win and you get beat but it was so close your 20hp damage was enough to kill the other ship.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7VQh-m44I&feature=related

Good point maybe there is somethng ccp could to prevent that. That was just an add on to my idea anyway. The current ship explosion effects are pretty old now and kind of lame. Your ship starts smoking like a broken down car and then blows up. The smoke looks and acts like its in a presurized environment more then the vacuum of space.

Ship explosions definitely need some help, they're pretty lame now. The explosion should depend on how the ship was killed.

For example, a battleship that's been bled to death by a dozen frigs should break apart in several smaller explosions.

Whereas a battleships that's been alpha'd by a dozen tornados should erupt in a massive fireball of death.


No thanks on the AOE damage tho.

Chances are it would be the attacker of the exploding ship that would get concorded, just like it used to happen with missile spalshback damage, or the pilot of the ship that just exploded would get a sec hit for attacking the ships around it.

Be even funnier if they got a sec hit for it as well

So now I can SD a ship on the Jita undock and use it to pod people, without even getting a sec hit?

I suddenly support this thread.

That is why I said in my first post - In other words .... If the pilot triggers a self-destruct, then there can be a controlled shutdown and containment of the reactors. The balance of ship is then destroyed (in a controlled manner so to speak) so that it is no longer usable by the enemy. (i.e. scuttling a sub.)

I’m just trying to come up with a plausible explanation for the how. From the programming side it's not that difficult.

I requested the same type of thing for drones back when the eve client was plagued with CTDs. The idea was, you can tell if a player logged versus the client crashed/dropped. When a safe warp is issued, if client crashed then issue a recall to the drones, align and warp. At least give the drones a chance to get aboard before the ship warped out. But I digress.

With an issuance for SD or check for SD nullifying the AOE, this prevents what you're postulating.

What we're talking about here is an AOE when I blow up your ship. (or visaa-versa)

.. oh and better explosion effects ... love the eye candy.

I was thinking of some situations like this but this and the post below this are awesome. I doubt ccps army of hampsters would vote in favor of the AOE effect but it would be cool.