Will there be any benefits for ejecting out of your ship before it explodes, like less of a financial loss, or will you be unable to abandon ship as said ship is burning down?asked by CC Corp
TL;DREjecting just before a ship explodes will be beneficial because it preserves a life in the character-progression system, though only some ships can eject and any medical-cost benefit is undecided.
Yes, there will be benefits for ejecting out of a ship just before it explodes.Not all ships will have that capability. The Hornet has it, the 300i will have it, but something like the Aurora, which is much more of a basic ship, doesn't have the ability to eject. Some of the bigger ships will have escape pods that, if you get to them before the ship goes out, you'll be able to get out before the ship goes up in a big fiery explosion.The benefit of ejecting rather than going up in an explosion is it sort of saves a life so to speak.So if you refer back to my Death of a Spaceman write up that I did a while ago, the concept in Star Citizen is that there's a progression in your character's lives. You don't always respawn at the same level of health, and as time goes on, your body takes wear and tear.So every time you get killed in a dogfight, you'll end up waking up in a medbay,--Think of it like Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back--and maybe you've got a little bit of a prosthetic arm, or you've got a scar here.After that happens so many times, your body just can't get built back up or revived, and that character will pass away, and all your possessions and family name or whatever you want will pass on to your designated successor.The benefit of ejecting is that you get to try and preserve a life. Which is something you probably would want to do, and we may or may not have some level of... Maybe your medical bills are less because you don't have to get fixed up as much. I guess it depends whether we have national health in our world.We haven't made a decision on that particular aspect, but definitely you would want to eject before your ship blows up if you possibly can, or have a ship that will give you that, 'cause it will give you an edge.And by the way, on the Aurora you will also, if it's about ready to go, you just would have to get out of your seat and go out the airlock manually verses hitting an ejection button.