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Thread: Will a ship chassis decay at all if you die?
You don't decay on death anywhere, you decay when you repair.Its a fine linedistinction, but an important one. If you blow up anywhere, Kashyyyk, Dantooine, Dathomir, even Naboo/Rori, you can limp your broken ship to Deep Space, do a quick in andout, and youyou'regolden. As long as your reactor and engine are minimally functional after your die, you can pull this off. If worse case happens, do a minimal repair, just to get mobile, then head out to the Deep Space stations.
I have had decay still kick inagainst me on a Deep Space run. However, the only components I've noticed this on are looted armor. None of my crafted components have ever suffered unrepairable damage coming out of Deep Space.
Stop worrying so much about decay! What are you going to do, leave that shiny new Actis sitting in the hanger because you're afraid to lose a few HP? Big deal. It's a ship, it's meant to blow up.
These threads come up every day, andI don't see the point.
Use it and enjoy it. It only decays to 10 anyhow, and as numerous people have pointed out in the past - at the point your chassis is taking hits, 10 pts or 1000pts, you're likely dead either way.
Components are another story, they can take months to get the perfect setup. But the chassis? Just deal with it and enjoy your ship!
this really annoys me too. you wouldn't believe the # of pilots i talk to that protest dying or PVP or anything else under the sun because they don't want their precious obi wan ship to decay.
can they code a warning box that comes up and says "decay means nothing! don't worry about decay! you'll always have your ship!"?
i'm at the point where i'm ready to say "remove chassis decay from the game entirely". would that hurt SW's who make some business off players unwittingly purchasing new ships because of decay? maybe. would it help get people up in space and fighting? definately.
why don't the devs get that decay on an entire ship (one rare or likely to cost a fortune) is not a fun mechanic and it's keeping players out of space? it doesn't matter that decay really means nothing, because players don't know, and even if you tell them they don't like seeing the #s go down.
It will never decay below 10 chasis points. In deep space it doesn't decay at all; however, on two occaisions I died in deep space and as soon as I respawned I just blew up and then got decay anyways, so there is a rare bug that can cause a decay death, but in general you should be fine.
Failproof: Don't die or don't fly. lol