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I dont know about you guys, but I love watching the old war movies and seeing the dogfights the pilots have in them. And ive played a good number of flight sims in my time as well because I like those movies so much. I especially loved the parts when the heros plane would take damage and start acting funny, and he had to deal with that and the other guy trying to kill him.But something Ive never seen a game take into effect that I wish they would, is how your ship would handel when damaged.

Lets say your out flying in dathomir space, you get jumped by a swarm of baddies. Here is something I would like to see, the damage they do to you should effect you more.

You ship is surrounded by a sheild, so as long as noone gets thru that, you should be fine. Thou it might be good to have a slight chance for damage after a missle blast, even thou your sheild stops it, it would jar the heck out of your fighter.

Now, im well aware that if they get thru your sheilds and armor, and then hit a componet, that componet will give you less performance. But how about things like this.....

A hit to your engine causes your ship to pull hard one way or the other

A hit to your reactor causes it to go "Critical" you must land within X amount of time to repair it or it will blow up

A hit to your blasters/disrupters/ions could jam the barrel, cuasing them to do damage to your ship

A hit to your ordance could cause them to detonate

A hit to your droid interface could short circit something (droid/controls/I dunno what)


Just little things like that would make it much more interesting, anyone else agree with me or am I crazy lol

Effectively, once you start taking damage it's going to be harder to recover. As-is, you're in deep trouble once you start taking component damage, and this will only make it worse ... if you manage to take the hits and get out of there to safety, anyway.