But wait, I got more. O so much more.
Heres something that probally hasn't been thought much about. Decompression. Like oh squeezey pooh theres a whole in the ship!
Picture this. Lets use a victory star destroyer for example. Perhaps in a few places on the ship's hull there could be a couple destructable pieces of armor, that go all the way through the ship into the interior. Like the it would be the roof of a hallway. Now these pieces aren't meant to feel like the very delicate pieces of fence in bf2. Rather they'll take a serious amount of fire power to punch through. First off, the ship's shields need to be down. Once there down the enemy ships will probally be firing down onto the victory's hull. These pieces of armor will take a serious, serious amount of a beeting (maybe like, thirty seconds of direct fire from heavy turbolasers). But once destroyed they could have a custom explosive effect, it might look like a decompression would, air rushing out with debris, with the oxegen burning on the way out of the whole, and teh explosion could last until the whole is fixed or the ship is destroyed. It could also have this neat swooshing sound. But thats just smoke an mirrors. The actual effect the decompression has is the 'explosion' described above does damage just like a normal one, but the area of teh damage would need to be carefully messed with so that it only strechtes into the afflicted hallway the whole is in. It would be lightish damage (justified by suffocating) but since the 'explosion' is constant people in that hall will die in under ten seconds.
Its important to note that there might only be one or two hallways with a destroyable piece of armored roof, this can't happen in the whole ship. But it would be a really neat thing. Imagine running through the ship as the battle rages outside, then taking a wrong turn to see a hallway litrely on fire, and exposed space above ya. Would certaintly up the intensity factor. Also, from the outside picture the view. You'd see fire blooming out from wholes in the hull, and fighters that draw too close could hear the swoosh noise...
And, despite risk of a too long post, I gota bring something else on my mind. Fighter squadrons. Imagine the great team work that could be had, now that you have squadmates in the air with you. Some good squad quick chatty things (on the talky rose thingy) will really effect combat. For instance the medic thing might be replaced (when in a ship, like the follow me/bail out replacement in bf2) by a 'he's on my tail!' quickchat. Perhaps points could even be awarded if a player aids that guy be shooting down the guy that hit him (perhaps kinda working like the kill assist thing).
Perhaps there could be other gameplay altering quickchat options. For instance a 'form up on me!' where squadmates that close within a certain distance of their leader will get a few extra points, a 'hit the bombers first', etc. Plus how about the squad leader being able to pin piont torpedo targets for the squad. It could launch a little invisible (sigh*) targeting beacon straight onto where he was pointing. This could show on fellow squadmates screens. It could look similar to the little squares that don't lock on in a bf2 fighter's HUD when he switches to bombs.
Well I'm all ideaed out for now. Whatcha all think?

Futurama: You Can't Prove it Won't Happen

There are definitely good concepts here,but ArcAngel, its extremely difficult to read a huge mass of small white text on a black background, so it tends to dissuade people from reading it. I read it all nonetheless, but most people probably wont. You should space between every sentence or so.

Anyway, the stuff for decompression is an ok idea, but the imperial stormtroopers are already wearing hostile environment suits and the ship is undoubtedly prepared for just such an occasion with blast doors, pressurization controls and everything.

And if you're making it like a real star destroyer, there ain't exactly going to be many people hanging around in the "hallway of death" if all the others dont have the same problem....

For example, say your star destroyer interior is tiny, with a bridge and three hallways, 2 hallways of which are vulnerable to decompression.

Problem is is that people like me would definitely avoid the hallways that could be destroyed, especially when the star destroyer is under heavy fire.

Id like to see more of a focus on the basics of space battles. How about a giant star destroyer versus a whole fleet of frigates and blockade runners?

One of the best ideas I think for people in star destroyers and like is that for every person manning a turbolaser for example, there are several turrets that actually fire where he is aimed.

So rather than aiming and firing one small turbolaser, perhaps 5 located at different points on the star destroyer will all fire at different angles to hit the target you're aiming at.

Would be very neat for having green flak going everywhere, but the flak like in real life concentrates on where the person is aiming, near an enemy starship or fighter.

This would be useful as most mods rarely have very large servers running most of the time, so even 20 players could create a very epic feeling space battle, as each one is controlling 5 or 6 turrets instead of one, making ships sprout fire much more like in the movies.