I fly my ships into deep structure quite often. I have never, ever, taken module damage because of it. I have never heard of this feature and I troll the forums quite a bit.

I have had modules damaged when I escaped a few fights with like 1-2% hull left.

Smoke is essentially particles of matter and gases.. what about that wouldn't be visible in space? Besides, I watched the Falcon9 launch last night and there was definitely smoke trails of a sort coming off the booster when the were achieving orbit before deploying the solar panels and heading off to the International Space station.

I have had modules damaged when I escaped a few fights with like 1-2% hull left.

Smoke is essentially particles of matter and gases.. what about that wouldn't be visible in space? Besides, I watched the Falcon9 launch last night and there was definitely smoke trails of a sort coming off the booster when the were achieving orbit before deploying the solar panels and heading off to the International Space station.

Let me clarify. Every layer leaks a bit of damage to the next layer when it is sufficiently damage. You start taking a little armor damage while still having some shield remaining and you start taking some hull damage even though have some armor left. This is especially obvious when shooting some structures in missions. However a little known fact is that when your structure gets low then your module take damage. However by that time your structure is so low that you likely exploded and there is a chance that the ship exploded before there was chance to damage the modules. So to sum up, yes this is a feature and always has been but you've likely never noticed it.

As to why mess with stuff that isn't broken. Well it may not seem like broken to you guys but it was broken to us. The code was so complex and weird (and not a single comment in sight) that nobody dared touch it. That is usually not a good place to be in because it means if we want to make any changes to it we need to either, hack it in to the current code and hope it works or simply rewrite it in a way we understood. We opted for the latter.

Yeah, I've seen it too, in 'skin-of-my-teeth' escpaes, and it makes perfect sense. Once your armor is breached. Or even seriously compromised.

But when you're shileds are still robustly solid? Nuh-uh.


Anyway, I'm confident it's been fixed. But still am disturbed that tinkered code was allowed to roll live without testing. Back when *i* did software development (not all THAT long ago), that was a 'fired day before yesterday' offense.