Collision damage

[Penpen]

When I first read about the 'feature' regarding the collision damage, I was pretty surprised. Surprised in a positive way. I've thought to myself, it'd be a good idea to stop fighters/bombers from crashing into your trader while flipping you all over the place.
Now, 24hours later, I'm annoyed to no end.

Dear Cannon, please try to imagine the following situation (that's a hard copy of what just happened).
6 LN ships fighting a bunch of Xenos, Phantoms and a Hellfire Legion gunboat. That makes a nice little furball of 13, maybe 14 ships.
Now we add around 10 NPC fighters into that and we have a big furball.
Occasionally NPC traders are passing by, and with every minute our little skirmish grows into a big warzone.

Besides the usual, already very annoying "hitting one startracker NPC" you're now also taking damage.
So after 10 minutes I went down from 63 to 30 Nanobots without being shot at only once.

Now, someone might say "Ye, you're a lousy pilot then!" Oh, that I am. But then, the 15 other people around me would've been bad pilots, too.
The collision damage destroys the fun that we have, fighting in big skirmishes against eachother.
From my point of view it's annoying, not avoidable and makes a skirmish frustrating more than ever.
So I humbly ask if it was possible to a) remove it again or b) make it apply only to big ships.

On an additional note: My [The_Angels] Camers-ship was instantly killed by a passing by Barge, that just wanted to see how much damage he could cause by crashing into me.



This 'feature' needs a review.
Thanks for your time.

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