Will there be some built in mechanics in game to punish people with LTI that use their ship as a ramming weapon to destroy other ships constantly in the PU? I don't have any LTI ships and would want to be very careful but I can just see trolling jack [Redacted] ramming people for [Redacted] and giggles.asked by GhG
TL;DRRamming should be a pain rather than easy: they're looking at reducing it in Arena Commander, and in the universe repeated crashes would delay insurance replacements, though other anti-griefing features are still being considered.
Yeah so, I mean I think we're talking about like, first of all on Arena Commander we're trying to figure out some ways to maybe make some the ramming a little less prevalent, and then outside of that - in the Persistent Universe - I think the more you crash into something, even if you have LTI the insurance company is just not going to get the ship replaced as quickly. And of course if you're doing it with a rare ship and there's not any of those ships in production nearby, then it takes you some time to get the new ship. So we're not- ... the idea is it shouldn't be really easy for you to do a lot of ramming in your ship. It should be a bit of a pain in the ass, and the more you do, maybe you have to wait a little longer, and if you do WAY too much of it, maybe there won't be any ships in that star system and you'll have to wait 'til one gets shipped in from another star system. So that's kinda the idea. We probably will want to have some other features there to stop people just being obnoxious, but we're still trying to think through all that sort of stuff, so we'll see what happens.