"Boarding ships"

[Hidamari]

*Clicks on enemy battleship from my boarding craft*

/b /board <amount of men to send>

Sending only a maximum number of 50 marines over in one go, (so you cant just dump 300 troops into the enemy ship), it would have to check if the target is capable of being boarded and still has shields. if either one isnt true it should do nothing and give you an error

ERR- target cannot be boarded
ERR- targets shields still active

There should be a chance to resist being boarded, this could be used from 10% of the totall marines aboard your ship, (these would actually be in the dock) if the number of marines in the dock is greater than the amount of marines trying to board then there is a greater chance your ability to repel the attempt will be successfull. which will result in the loss of a few marines from the hostile force, 10% of the ammount you tried to send over, meaning you send over a small amount first to get a foothold in the dock (probably working out 10% of the totall enemy force, and then if its not reppelled you can send in more to attempt a take over the entire ship.

ERR- Target Repelled your boarding attempt
OK- Target was successfully boarded

If the boarding was successful and the person being boarded loses all of their marines then

<name> has been captured by <name>

a blue message would appear indicating the ship was defeated, this player then falls into the 4hours rule of none return, maybe even longer for being successfully boarded.


then you have to wonder what would happen after the boarding if it was successfull.

A successfully Boarded ship has:
no Cruise/Impulse Engine control
no Weapon control

A successful Boarding Party can:
Take anything from the ships hold using /p /pillage <commodity> <amount>
(cant think of anything else)


this would be total ownage. id love it

EDIT:

you also have to think about how close you need to be to do this, Id say 500m

ERR- Target out of range

also, you shouldnt be going any faster than impusle speeds while trying to board sombody

ERR- Exceeding boarding speed

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