yeah I really appreciate that especially schema and criss are willing to have a lengthy discussion. would be nice if people werent so brutal to them because itll discourage schine from interacting with us further.
This was already fixed, actually.
Well, with the new system, 100% shield sharing wouldn't fix it, but it would with the old system. I disagree on being able to shoot turrets off early, since I think they should be treated as part of the main ship and not something extra just slapped on, and since the only way to have that without letting people use turrets as ad hoc docked hull would be to have the main ship's shields take damage past the 25% mark while also doing block damage to the turret, which sounds unfair to me.
Serious question, what benefits of docked hull am I missing besides the shield effect and the momentum effect canceling? Things like the massive debuff to EMP and some other bugs I can't remember off the top of my head have since been fixed. 100% shield sharing and fixing the momentum effect transfer bug would remove all of the benefits of docked hull as far as I can tell, besides maybe being easier to repair than regular hull if ALL that got damaged was your docked hull.
hmmm if that was the case smaller ships would have a better chance against bigger ships which would make carriers a viable weapon
But turrets ARE extra things slapped on a ship. And being able to destroy them before blowing up whole enemy ship is a great feature. Look at World of Warships: you can disable enemy batteries to the point he has to turn his ship to return fire. Turret as an integral part of the ship would not be turret but a sponson.
You can still disable them after the shields are down. You don't have to blow up the whole ship to take them down.
If a turret is inside shield bubble, it is protected by said boubble. If the shield is depleted, the armour (and turret's structere itself) on that turret should protect the turret docking point.
Legit actual bubble shields were the first implementation of shields and it was terrible. Poor performance, couldn't conform to ship size. So long as collision is determined by bounding boxes physical, tangible bubble shields are a pipe dream
Look how the highlight using convex hull is made for dev build reactors. Do the same, expand it by a little bit more and there you go. You have your bubble shield taking any shape you want.
Are you being dense on purpose? By damaging the armor and turret structure until it falls off, the same as now.
That sounds good in theory, but rendering bubble shields across multiple ships in combat becomes a processing nightmare. Some battles in this game have excess of 100 ships engaged in combat.
No wonder Shine does not want to listen to you.
You don't have to render anything, make it glow a little like the outlines when damage happens, only in the damage area, size related to explosion or intensity and it's good, it works for systems great and it should work for that too.
Your point being? You already have to penetrate 75% of their shields in the current system. There's no reason why protection should suddenly drop off at 25% shields, and if you can break through the first 75% you can break through the last 25%.
You give a problem, i give is a simple answer. Nothing more, nothing less.
This would require an invisible bubble that you would render the damage effect on. It's still being calculated.
