I like the idea, but would rather see the ships break up after being destroyed, and the parts remaining on the map floating around as obstacles.

If something like a corvette or frigate has its engines or bridge blown off, a la Empire at War, with a gaping hull breach, it's a little silly to have it continuing to move aorund the map and be fully functional (a la Empire at War).  If a corvette loses a large chunk out of it, it would decompress and be basically meat hole training, not continue to limp around the game area.

Stardestroyersarecool wrote:

Canadiens1160 wrote:

I like the idea, but would rather see the ships break up after being destroyed, and the parts remaining on the map floating around as obstacles.

If something like a corvette or frigate has its engines or bridge blown off, a la Empire at War, with a gaping hull breach, it's a little silly to have it continuing to move aorund the map and be fully functional (a la Empire at War).  If a corvette loses a large chunk out of it, it would decompress and be basically meat hole training, not continue to limp around the game area.

Entire ships do not decompress, when a breach is detected the surrounding bulkheads close. But why does it need to be a huge chunk, could just be a turret or engines etc.

Personally, I think a corvette is a small enough ship that a hull breach / decompression would probably come close to immediately crippling the damn thing.

I'd be up for debris falling off and being left behind ships in a trail of smoke and fire as they approach critical status.  Hell, the debris doesn't even need to be part of the ship mesh, it can just be similar-looking models with col mesh that spawn as damage effects.