"Passive" Self Destruct

posted on July 1st, 2011, 7:38 pm

Every time the AI recalculates its strategy and sends out its next attack wave, it destroys all of its ships that have disabled engines.  I wonder if that process could be tapped since it doesn't rely on the weapons working.

posted on July 1st, 2011, 7:51 pm

Then make this auto self destruct some kind of expensive investment which you have to research as part of your anti-borg build order.

posted on July 1st, 2011, 8:14 pm

What if you had a sabotage button, It had a radome effect.

Positive out comes.
1. the ship Self Destruct.
2. it fires a shot at a near by fridley ships confusing friendly ships for a cupel of secs.
3. the ship kills crew and becomes derelict agin.

Negative. sabotage fails.
1. enemy gets to see the space yard where ship was made for a few secs.
2. the ships get resestons to weapons of its one race.

posted on July 1st, 2011, 10:05 pm

I asked how I would implement such a system, not if it was balanced or not.  We can talk about balance after it's been proven to work.