Builder AlphaOne
Claws of the Demon
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Posted - 2015.03.24 14:10:19 -
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Isaac Novi wrote:Quote:Collisions. Bouncy ships?! Come on CCP! Ships should be able to crash into one another! (I know IGÇÖm asking for too much here).
PROPOSED SOLUTION: With basic physics and a simple function that converted momentum to damage you could easily have collisions. You can make it so that a frigate crashes a big shipGÇÖs shield like a mosquito in a windshield, but a Titan ramming into another would be like a catastrophic event.
GAME MECHANICS CONSEQUENCES: You could ram titans and supercaps into one another! Possibility of adding ship formations and more useful divisions between squadrons and wings since now you have to be aware of where you are related to the rest of the ships. So, you would have your FC commanding the whole fleet calling targets and warps and everything, while the WCs would be responsible for moving the actual wings keeping formation. No more GÇ£all ships anchor to the FC crapGÇ¥ now anchor would mean keep formation with the WC with some kind of automatic system like in Age of Empires. The WC would be the one moving the fleet while the FC calls for targets. This means that the only job of regular line members would have is to target and shoot, soGǪ basically the same as now. Also, to prevent collisions on dock/undock you make a (visible in the UI) radius around each proper scaled station where the docking system takes control of your ship and moves it to one of the docking ports. For gameplayGÇÖs sake you canGÇÖt take damage when you are inside this radius. On undock the same system takes you out of the automatic docking radius.
ADVANTAGES: No more immersion-breaking bouncy ships. No more GÇ£swarmGÇ¥ of ships just moving chaotically, this would mean the space battles would look 1000% better than the crappy mess they are now. No more stations spewing stacked ships.
This has been asked for, repeatedly, for the past decade or more. CCP isn't interested. They LIKE IT that small ships can intentionally bounce big ones in complete defiance of all known laws of physics without taking any damage or even raising a criminal behavior flag. They LIKE IT that npc corp characters can use this mechanism to aid ganking in high sec by preventing that valuable target from warping.
It would be fairly easy, imho, to create a lockout zone within 5km of stations and gates in which the docking/undocking mechanism takes over and exempts collisions between ships under its control but leaves alone collisions between a ship not under its control and all others. [same applies to other objects at which a ship can be docked or undocked, perhaps with lesser radius of action]
obviously, the proper physics is: [imho]
a. collisions create damage proportional to the relative momentum of the ships involved [mass times (1 * velocity/c)]
b. a collision that does NOT go beyond shield damage to a ship does NOT change its course
c. a collision that does go beyond shield damage results in criminal flag and CONCORD intervention if in high sec
d. if a collision results in sufficient damage to alpha the ship, it is instantly destroyed and killmail results as usual
This wouldn't change null sec much at all except that your Daredevil couldn't successfully bump a carrier -- it would self-destruct.
BUT -- CCP continues to listen to the ganker community and support this bogus physics. We have to assume that, in CCP's opinion, gankers pay in enough real life cash each month that they NEED this revenue (or they buy PLEX from others who do pay in RL cash).
Just because I think that's complete BS doesn't mean that Iceland is going to change anything.
--older than dirt. older than EVE, too. |