disconnected parts float away

[marineten]

make it so if a block is no longer connected to the main ship or structure it will fall off and float into space

 

[erdrik]

Yes please! Seconded!

 

[Ketran]

Physics driven debris would be good. If your ship has been violently blown apart I\'d expect the parts to blast away at varying speeds.

 

[Planr]

The problem with this is that when they become disconnected like that, they have to become a separate entity, like a new ship. If this happened for every bit of the ship that came off, you\'d have literally hundreds or even thousands of entities floating around the ship. It\'s a nice idea and I like it, but I don\'t see how the game could support the stress it would put on it.

 

[Geoarrge]

Could limit it to chunks above a certain size.

Maybe eventually this could be applied to mining-- carve out a giant core sample and tow it away?

 

[Ganelon]

Or you could attach rockets to the asteroids and tow them to some giant ship that automatically reduced them to their resources... Then it would be one giant entity, instead of a thousand.