I think it would be a good idea to stop the ability to pod breach a ship that is still operational. Hardly anybody is utilising the bigger ships because a rust bucket can just squad rush your ship with no risk of losing anything but what they carry to raid. This would improve the space combat aspect ten fold.
#Stop pods being able to breach fully operational ships.
keen cargo
undone anvil
This is a great idea!
I had the idea that breaching frigates should damage you more depending on the armour rating of the frigate. But i honestly likes yours better.
Because the way the game is right now, there is no real reason to bring in your big frigates, exactly for the reasons you stated.
keen cargo
Bump
hybrid raven
bump. this update cycle is so wack. urgent balance changes like this should be introduced immediately, not wait for like a month
cobalt remnant
Or make it that you can breach ships but if they got full hull or depending on the hull you lose equivalent HP
upper sable
Good that this has been suggested. I'd like to bump this back up the list possibly. The breech mechanic is my least favorite. Force ships to be disabled before they can be breached.
primal isle
i think this is a misconception, most people dont bring good ships because there is no point to inside the actual raid. i honestly think ship combat with current breaching mechanics is fine as is. if you really wanted to, in a good team you could bring in a capital frigate and go on a huge killing spree disabling other ships, shooting pods and letting people breach, since it is easy enough killing breachers, especially when you know the areas they will be breaching
thorny tinsel
I was thinking about this. I keep seeing people say that ship combat is fun and fulfilling, but ultimately you're just going to breach afterwards anyway, so why not start with that?
thorny tinsel
i think this is a misconception, most people dont bring good ships because there...
That's my main concern. good ships will just breach bad ships an will be borderline unbreachable themselves.
primal isle
I was thinking about this. I keep seeing people say that ship combat is fun and ...
its not beneficial to always breach, its actually much more worth while to disable the ship first, even if your in a rust bucket trying to steal a frigate, if you can disable them and either kill them inside, or force them to breach you its much better
primal isle
That's my main concern. good ships will just breach bad ships an will be borderl...
ah i see what you mean, yes this is my concern too if there is a breach shield. basically it just makes the gameplay less interesting, because in a good ship you are usually chasing rust buckets trying to enter the raid, so once you kill disable the ship they will just have to pod out all the way to the escape, whereas it is much more fun if they try and breach you instead. when im playing with my friends and we decide to pull a good ship we actually try to bait people into breaching us like this