Instead of a uniform distribution, I'd suggest a 10% chance or so of an item taking double damage. I don't like the idea of dying twice and having my shields reduced to 10% functionality.

Weapons, shield, energy, engine, scoop, radar, cloak, tractor... can't recall any others at the moment.

EDIT: orite, not capacitors. But yeah, see Simon's list.

weapons, shields, energy, engines, scoops, tractors, radars, cloaks, and warp devices

my capacitor doesnt.

In parallel to this suggestion:



If I am guaranteed the ability to repair on the fly (for a higher cost than when docked at an AI base), I would be more amenable to your original suggestion. But yeah, capping the damage to 24% would be a decent idea as well.

If Radia's original suggestion went in, it would be possible to take a 75% durability hit to your shields on your first death, and another 25% hit on the second death.

He said 75% TOTAL to ALL items. As in random %'s applied to all your items that would equal 75%.

Again, if they get rid of scraps and mediate the entire system through credits alone, then I would be willing to play along with this idea. However, allowing arbitrary distribution of damage would require either a reduction in the total amount of damage to gear, or a reduction in cost of repair, since you will have people having to repair on the fly more often and hence incurring a greater cost on average. If you limit the amount of damage to a given piece of gear to less than 25%, then this would be less of a factor.

I can't rememeber properly, did admins say they will add scrap parts to AI bases or will it be only from PVP?