Idea - Boarding Ships

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Hey,

small thought I had today for an expansion maybe?

Boarding ships using Ion canons to disable enemy ship and board them, of course capturing the ships.

Could be vastly used by pirates, especially because that's what they do!
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Ya i like this idea but i think it's been suggested in a topic before but i dont feel like looking for it lol...
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
ok heres the thing, there will be no boarding, however the Advent will beable to take control of other ships for short periods of time, however for the expansion, a possible explosives team MAY be included.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
lol I knew about the Advent thing but how do you know about the explosives team thing??
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
my friend posed the idea for TEC and Blair said that he may think about it
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Ya i like this idea but i think it's been suggested in a topic before but i dont feel like looking for it lol...
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"A" topic? I've seen several since I've joined up... its been argued to death. Answer is pretty much "not going to happen".
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
oh well, I haven't searched before posting, I should have. Anyway, it was just an idea
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
It is funny how often this topic comes up.

The best ones are when guys suggest 'awesome' ideas like having a cheap boarding frigate in the game that will automatically take over any enemy capital ships that get near them.

Or better yet, having ramming frigates that are cheap but will automatically take out ANYTHING they ram.

It is like some people have absolutely no concept of play balance.

Here, let me suggest a special frigate of my own. How about a frigate that costs 0 resources/credits, has a 1 second build time and automatically wins the game for you once it is built. WOW, wouldn't that be just the awesomest!?!?!

Lol
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
Yeah that was me. I was told no.
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
Oh and emperor, most of the things suggest happen in real life.

Fireships
Boardings etc

Homeworld2 seemed to do just fine for play balance with all of these ship types and functions. This game is a cross but I would still like to see more ship variety. At the moment its good but feels like maybe your gazillions of citizens only had an idea for one ship type.
I want to be immersed by the amazing detail and variety of space in the SOSE universe. I want to see every planet have its own varied idea of space travel. LOL Is that what you were after hearing? Imagine every planet you conquered having a fleet if its own design and absorbing them into your own. Capturing the tech .
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
when your throwing a fleet together. you build and design everything you can think of.

and my ram ship would not have taken out a cap ship at least not one by itself.
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
Sorry, I can't seem to recall any ramming ships in homeworld 2.

I am not against the ideas of ramming and boarding, as long as it can be done in a balanced way.

However, most of the 'suggestions' given are not at all balanced. They generally go something like "wouldn't it be cool if I could take my almost dead capital ship and ram it into my opponents full health capital ship, and both ships blow up".

Then the lame arguements start over realism. At this point, one of the devs step in and tells us that there will be no boarding or ramming. Eventually, the thread dies out.

One month later, somebody starts the whole topic up again. Rinse and repeat.