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Bulak

Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:51 pm

It's time something is done about the grossly deceptive and mislabeled "Eject" button!

When you eject from a ship, the ship is destroyed. All my component were a 0 condition when I checked. Repairing them results in a 10% decay (ie. My reactor was at 78hp, and after repair it's condition was 70.8hp) I can accept this as my ship was severly damaged and unable to move.

However, the wounds you recieve are DOUBLE what they are when you are shot down by another ship!

From my understanding, when you eject from a stricken aircraft, it's to SAVE yourself from serious injury and death. If we were to apply the "eject" button in SWG to real life, then no one would eject from thier aircraft becuase it's certain death... better to take your chances surviving acrash landing. All those bomber crews in WWII would not havesat out the war inprison camps, they would have been burried 6 feet under!

Developers! Please rename the "Eject" button to "Self Destruct" or "Suicide" because that's what it really is!

Green_Arrow

Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:08 pm

#2

I completely agree. I always go down with my ship instead of using the "Eject" button for that reason.

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masterlugi

Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:37 pm

#3

YES i agree, ive gotten a bunch of wounds from that when i could of hit the space station in same amount of time.

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Thunderbyte

Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:15 pm

#4

/sign

The Eject button is a little decieving, perhaps it should be called "I Quit" button

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Feynan

Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:57 pm

#5

Agreed. I brought this issue up in beta as well. In my opinion Eject should save even your ship from further worsening of the parts condition, even though it doesn't technically make sense (since ejecting means your ship is still destroyed). It should be a viable option in combat to save yourself, and it allows those who are a little more gutsy to see if they can stick it out where others would have ejected

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JediNg

Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:47 am

#6

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Vrond

Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:42 am

#7

Always thought the extra wounds where silly. If you eject your ship is destoyed but you should have less wounds not more.

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poopyhead

Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:09 am

#8

Wouldn't it be REALLY nice if you could eject and then be picked up by a group member in who had room in his/her multiplayer ship?

You could avoid space-cloning wounds, stay in the fight and it would encourage group tactics.

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Zeon_Zaku

Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:20 pm

#9

I agree completely.
Not to mention the animation isn't an eject animation... it's a self-destruct animation. For ejecting, it should show either the cockpit detatching and jetting off while the rest of the ship spirals off or explodes, or show your character with an air mask on ejecting from the cockpit (like in X-Wing and X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter).

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Kalano

Mon Mar 21, 2005 1:06 pm

#10

Feynan wrote:

Agreed. I brought this issue up in beta as well. In my opinion Eject should save even your ship from further worsening of the parts condition, even though it doesn't technically make sense (since ejecting means your ship is still destroyed). It should be a viable option in combat to save yourself, and it allows those who are a little more gutsy to see if they can stick it out where others would have ejected

What about the times when your engine and reactor are destroyed but the rest of the ship is intact? Is that still an I quit situation? What am i sticking itout for then?

Please don't fully generalize the situation. I stick it out untill i can't do anything anymore. Thats when i hit the button.

Yeah, i had the button pop up for a booster that was dead, but i did win the fight too, and bloody proud of it.

I do agree that the200 HAMspace wounds is a nasty price for the eject, but when you eject, the 10% only comes off the amount that is repaired. Not the full amount if the whole part is dead. That is the pay off. How much of the 10% are you willing to pay for 200 HAM damage.

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BeigeKnight

Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:19 pm

#11

I've often wondered what would happen if you're flying with a group, get damaged enough to HAVE to eject, but the threat is gone. It might sound silly to some, but I've always thought it'd be cool if you could tow a ship with a multiplayer ship. Might give people a bigger incentive to take those things out of the hanger...

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WornTraveler

Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:03 am

#12

LOL, I was wondering if anyone else was thinking the same thing. Truth is, I never have been shot down, only time I ever use the eject button is when my engine goes dead and I am sitting there waiting for my assailants to destroy me- and when they take such a logn time doing it, I can get a little bored. But I agree taht you should not get more damage ejecting than getting shot down- but maybe they want to reward patient players who are willing to sit there and watch there ship slowly get destroyed

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homelessguy

Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:39 am

#13

how about calling it "blow your self up button"

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