[Snail]

I was playing some missions just now (well INFASA to be exact) and I killed which smashed into the side of a destroyer. It bounced off and exploded with some of DaBrain's pretty effects.

But I was thinking, wouldn't it be cool if instead of bumping off, how about making it so that if a fighter or bomber hits something with a larger mass than it, it instantly explodes instead of going bzzzzzzzzzboom. It would make for some cool moments.

What do you think? Would it be easy to implement?

[Trivial Psychic]

There'd need to be a way to disable death-roll.  Sounds like either an ai_profiles.tbl addition, or something for objecttypes.tbl, which would cause a ship to breakup on impact, something like kamikaze behavior.

[Snail]

But only when it hits something. Yeah, like kamikaze.

[Trivial Psychic]

I had thought that there was an option added recently to control impact damage, but a quick check through the Wiki tables section, doesn't seem to locate it.  I bring this up because I wasn't sure if you wanted a fighter to be destroyed when it hits a cap-ship, regardless of its hull strength.

[Snail]

If its rolling to its death and it hits a capship, it usually bounces off. I thought it would be better if it instantly blows up when it is death rolling and hits a capship.

[Goober5000]

There'd need to be a way to disable death-roll.

That's easy.  What's hard is coding the AI so the fighters don't hit the capships.

[Turey]

There'd need to be a way to disable death-roll.

That's easy.  What's hard is coding the AI so the fighters don't hit the capships.

 

Yeah, "Protect" seems to be more like "Attack by Ramming".

[Agentbolt]

One of the old FSport missions has exactly what you're talking about though.  I forget the name of it, you need to proctect the GTD Galatea from Kamikaze fighters.  The fighters will just fly right into the ship and explode on impact with a small shockwave.  It looks a little rough but it certainly seems do-able. 

[Dark Hunter]

That's easy.  What's hard is coding the AI so the fighters don't hit the capships.

But that's the funny part!

[Snail]

The Plato hit one of my wingmen like a baseball in "Out of the Dark, Into the Night".

[Dark Hunter]

A CommNode whacked an Astaroth once... that was absolutely hilarious and I wish I'd recorded a vid of it.