Proximity damage

Has anyone ever played the star wars flight sims? I.E. X-wing, Tie Fighter, XvT, X-wing Alliance? It occurs to me that when starships are destroyed, they kind of… blow up, as in go boom, and the shockwave/debris from said explosion does damage to whatever is close to it. What I propose is… PROXIMITY DAMAGE from things blowing up in space, i.e. pirate ships, starfighters, mines, destroyed enemy starships, etc.
Proximity damage, in a nutshell, will deal damage depending on how close a vessel is to the destroyed ship.

Furthermore, i’d like to see ships crash into each other if they are both at the same x/y/z coord. In those flight sims you could crash into other ships without instantly blowing up; knock you off course and cause heavy damage

That used to be in the game, Walldo. It was terrible. I accidentally flew into so many capships.

If implemented, I think collisions should only happen when two capital ships are in the same coordinate; there would be enough space for two fighters or freighters to sneak by eachother (possible implementation of a ram skill to override this). However, I think that battlegroup should override any collisions from ships being at the same coord, as should low speed (half of the ship’s max; for docking).
As for proximity damage… I like the idea, but it could be difficult to implement, and even harder to balance (sending 20 fighters modded up to 200 hull at a capital and WTFPWNing it just by selfdestructing them, etc).

A big, big yes for the ram skill.

I’ve been a proponent of ‘ram’ for a while now. But I’m not going into that. You have a point about using remote fighters as unblockable missiles, though. Even though it’s pisspoor roleplay to do so, the twink’s’d be abusing that six ways from monday. Maybe put in a cap per ship size class to how much proximity damage is done? Or implement a ‘mine’ shipclass that is exclusively responsible for causing proximity damage?

edit: ok, not exclusively, but would have a multiplier attached to it.

How is that piss pooor roleplay you have droid flown fighters loaded with explosives that ram ships, I think its brilliant rp!

I think that perhaps anything larger than a small spacecraft should cause some proximity damage. And as for ramming, make it so that only player piloted vessels can do it. And I agree RenegadeJedi when it comes down to only 2+ capitol ships can collide if at the same coordinates. Though, we’d have to make it so that they can orbit a planet without crashing into each other. Heh.

An X-wing smashing into a corvette would be awesome though.

Terrible idea. That’s time that could be better used sorting out some sort of starfighter battlegroup system that’ll allow one pilot to lead a squadron of unmanned (by players) fighters into a battle (and not be useless for it)

Or time better spent just recoding the whole space system.

ALL I HAVE TO SAY IF YOU PUT IN PROXIMITY DAMAGE PUT IN RAMMING. I ALWAYS WANTED TO RAM AN ENTIRE X-WING SQUADRON INTO AN ISD AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.