EVE General Discussion

This month's Sourceforge project is about colliding vehicles. Rigs on Rods is what its called and it got me thinking in one of two ways.

A collision in space out to generate damage. Shields should bounce I guess cause they have little to no mass but armor or hull should take some damage. The simplest implementation would be just take damage.

The real deal should be hull damage though and I'm talking a bit of art. We all like wrecks. Imagine some simple or even complex crunching. Some vectors and mass calculations could determine the graphics. Shouldn't it be hull crushing, maybe instapop when the hull goes to zero even if there's armor and shield left. instapop? Can you say hull breach? Put yourself in a bumper car or demolition derby. Aren't those kinds of crashes fun?

No.

If you actually played the game and paid attention to your surroundings,
you'd know that this just isn't doable in a way that doesn't ruin the game for everybody.

+1 for boobie physics.

If a collision causes damage and it happens in high sec, does CONCORD come? Who do they kill? The fastest ship? Both?

If CONCORD does not come, doesnt this mean people can gank ships by ramming them, without consequence?

Edit: I thought this would be about how soft body collisions can have the rebound be much less than the impact velocity. In other words, reduce bumping velocity transfer. I got this ball you can drop from 5 feet and it bounces up maybe an inch.

retribution will have a little button which is green for safe mode and red for everything goes. If you set it to red and you bump somebody he and you will receive damage and concord might want to shoot you. Green is plain old bumping.

I acknowledge that you couldnt do this without a serious overhaul of the navigation mechanics. To not do so would be like trying to play Halo with an NES controller. However, you are failing to consider that the reason people play the way to do is a result of the current "no collision damage" situation. People would be much more careful if they actually took damge from collisions.

You can be careful coming out of warp, how?

What about undocking? In what way can you undock with care?

People wouldn't play Eve anymore if they actually took damage from collisions.

Think about it.

You apparently didnt read the first sentence after the quote. Think about it.

Since the OP didnt' do it, lets look at a simple way this could be abused.

Say you see a guy mining, you warp a bunch of ships around him, keep him at range like 1k or soemthing and wait.

eventually he will try to warp off and the act of aligning WILL eventually make him run into one of the ships surrounding him, generating damage.....which ligh the CONCORD cyno and blam, dead mining ship thanks to the space pigs (you can cry police brutality all you want, in space there is no ACLU....).

Now that I think of it, bring on the physics, it will be glorious.

Navigation mechanics have nothing to do with undocking or coming out of warp.

Think about it more, I guess.

You cannot do these things carefully, neither can you implement damage from bumping while these piloting maneuvers remain necessary for gameplay of any sort beyond station trading.