Damage model for the Ships

posted on December 28th, 2008, 6:21 pm

I can remember with armada 2 a damage system existed. You saw holes in the hull of the ships. Maybe a Federation-Ship could lost a Warp nacelle.

What are you thinking about this?

posted on December 28th, 2008, 7:11 pm

Don't know if a ship could fly without a nacelle, but I remember that hit ships use to leave a gas trail behind them.

posted on December 28th, 2008, 7:50 pm

... but as Dark Painkiller said, they also did have damaged bits on them too... which was really cool imo 

It would definitely be nice to give more of a feel of damage incurred during battle 

posted on December 28th, 2008, 7:55 pm

I'm fairly sure ships can fly without 1 nacelle, just look at legacy...maybe not, ever since they patched that out. Besides, nacelles are only necessary to form the warp field, the warp drive and impulse engines would be intact on most ships. But I don't know how hard it would be to make damaged ships visibly repaired.

posted on December 28th, 2008, 10:02 pm

no a damage system would be great, make it more realistic, and what you could also do is have the amount of damage lower the effectivness of the ship, like lower its speed and weapon power

posted on December 28th, 2008, 10:17 pm

I don't think they are about to go change a fundamental part of the gameplay, this is a purely aesthetic idea from my perspective.

posted on December 28th, 2008, 10:53 pm

I think it could be good. But I dont think it need to be so much catastrophic damage if done darkens the hall a bit and terns off all lights it could have the same effect with out having the same damage in the same place on all ships.

posted on December 29th, 2008, 10:04 am

I think that it would be visualy cool, but it would unbalance gameplay... you could blow off a ships disruptor or nacell. But you cant blow that off a borg cube.

posted on December 29th, 2008, 11:58 am

Mhm, I don´t think so...

I thought rather of an optical damage system.
It must not be tied together with the Gameplay.

With the borg you are right...

But I remember the battles against the Dominion. The Battles were great.... :-)
You saw the damage on the ships very good...

posted on December 29th, 2008, 12:51 pm

yeah thats what i ment, if the damage is cosmetic then thats fine, i was saying it would unbalance the game if it was gameplay based.

posted on December 30th, 2008, 11:18 am

some nice ideas we alread yhave some badly damaged wrackage on todo, but some real stuff like described here would be a cool addition. noted down, i think we can make something out of it

[Dark Painkiller]

posted on December 30th, 2008, 3:19 pm

Last edited by Dark Painkiller on December 30th, 2008, 3:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Something like this....       :innocent:



http://armada2.filefront.com/potd/103002

posted on December 30th, 2008, 6:08 pm

What about when ships are destroyed? Is that being updated? It still looks like stock without any near complete wrecks.

posted on December 30th, 2008, 6:30 pm

yes, you are right.

This should be also reworked.

posted on December 31st, 2008, 1:50 am

i think a husk would be cool, players could send out resource collectors to gather a small amount of the ships build cost resources.