I was thinking just how when we die we get "returned to home station". My idea is some sort of physical thing that has to be returned before one can resawn. A "cargo" object maybe, that can be picked up by another player and brought to a station where the person respawns. This would make dying a lot more serious.

-outrider

ps if the cargo isn't picked up for like 5 minutes the person auto respawns?

Cool idea. Then maybe you could have players charging you for the rescue. "I'll pick you up if you give me 5k." Or you could get captured and held POW by an opposing government. Heh heh...

Would be kinda boring just sitting there though, especially if no-one else was in the system. Maybe the ejection seat would have a tiny engine that could inch along at 10 m/s.

You mean like an escape pod (#47)? ;)

Seriously though, I have issues with how this would be implemented as well. I don't want a player bored to death because his character died in the middle of nowhere.

just to ressurect an old thread on this:

http://vendetta.guildsoftware.com/?action=msgboard&thread=1092&page=11

If they implement ejections seats, then I think it would be really fun to start killing people directly underneath large asteroids...

LOL!

give the ejection seat sort of a limited maneuverability, like you look down while going forward or something, and make them leave HUGE radar signals.

If you can get back to a station you get your ship like with 75% off or something. Except for specials, you neeed to go to a station that sells those.

Yeah, imagine travelling 10 m/s across multiple sectors to get to 18 or a nation sector. thats over about 50,000 m. Lets see 50,000 divided by 10, is 5,000 seconds to travel that far, which is approximatly 83.3 minutes, which is about 1 hour and 23 minutes. Fun.

yeah very fun :(

pffff

Maybe if they went 50 m/s but had no turbo.

that will still be 15 minutes (take a few and give a few :D).

If you die 5 times in a short period, oh happy me :(

cheers

PS: Me sees the newbies already getting their busses shot and then being followed by a couple more newbiekillers to shoot the ejectionseat, which in itself opens another ejectionseat which will be shot again and which opens another ejectionseat :D.

No fun, no fun at all :D

No, if your escape pod is destroyed, you are really dead. And equipping your ship with an escape pod should be opitional. You aren't forced to cruise around if you don't want to, only if you want to avoid whatever penalty comes with death (as of yet nothing). And you could always /explode if you feel you are lost in too deep of space to recover in the time you want to.

Aaaah, now I get it.

Me wonders if it would be possible if pirates picked you up, typing in /explode, instant pirate fragfest :D

cheers

LOL Rene.

Good one.
Outrider - Being stranded for 5 minutes is not my idea of fun. Flying around in a pod would be well funny. And maybe if it was armed with a small Ion blaster (Say half rate fire) Then in a massive combat all is not lost..hehehe.

But the idea is a good one. but does require a lot of thought.

Cheers.

WM.

YEAH! BUT BLASTERS ON THEM! SCREW BUS PARTIES! EJECTION SEAT PARTIES! PEOPLE FLYING AROUND IN CHAIRS!!!! EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!


/me goes insane.

I think getting a discount on your next ship if you eject is a great idea.

you have to make it to the station though, and your eject seat should have plans for your ship, so a special ship would cost a bit more than normal to make at a station without a "Blackmarket" or your home station that sells it.

In another thread it was mentioned that you would be cloned from a small piece of dna left in a pod after you die, i liked that idea. or maybe you can just take a suicide pill if u feel u cant wait for someone to rescue u. then if someone finds and brings in your pod, they get a bonus or something, while if u take the suicidal approach, u respawn at ur home base at some fee or something :)