Damaged engines = very slowed (but some) movement

posted on March 5th, 2011, 4:42 am

Random idea (just to have it): Allow ships with damaged engines to move at 10-20% speed, with movement incurring more damage. A ship that damages engines via movement to 100% would destroy the engines. 1% repair = 10% speed, 99% repair = 20% movement.

posted on March 5th, 2011, 6:00 am

posted on March 5th, 2011, 7:26 am

  I like this very much .

posted on March 5th, 2011, 7:27 am

but not super high movement...

posted on March 5th, 2011, 7:32 am

I think having engines "destroyed" reducing speed to 10% of normal would be a very cool thing .  Maybe some variation to actually DESTROY them completely vs. damaged into a slower speed could be worked in .

posted on March 5th, 2011, 9:55 am

I think having engines "destroyed" reducing speed to 10% of normal would be a very cool thing .  Maybe some variation to actually DESTROY them completely vs. damaged into a slower speed could be worked in .

That should be possible I think, since in Stock A2 warp drive didn't work when the status of the engines got lower than 60%. It would make escaping for fast ships more risky and players would think over their fleet composition and split-ups twice.

posted on March 5th, 2011, 11:19 am

i think that having the engine subsystem destroyed should mean no engines, but having them damaged to below 50% should mean slower speed.

posted on March 5th, 2011, 11:52 am

Dammit, someone beat me to it!

posted on March 5th, 2011, 3:54 pm

posted on March 6th, 2011, 6:26 am

I too support this idea.

posted on March 6th, 2011, 7:41 am

:wheelchair:


These two smilies approve, and so do I.

posted on March 11th, 2011, 12:19 pm

Seconded!