more realistic deaths

[JIVA]

@Enoch:

you may mistake it for dropping 3.000 individual units of scrap metal floatnig in space - which would indeed nearly crash the server...

but it can also be one single "container" containing 3.000 units of scrap. - which is no stress at all...

how is that different to now? - right now.... ships just pulverize and have no tactical value in space anymore after they are gone..... also a huge battlefield is nothing but empty space at the end.

if wrecks stayed around to dodge around, ram into or else.... it may add to the tactical enviroment... and a battlefield ... unless the combat moved off... might actually look quite scary in the end.

its the difference between imagining a ww1 frontline with thousands of dead bodies... or a ww1 frontline that is simply void of any corpses. - a matter of visuals.



about masses of life ejection systems - what puts the server under stress is tracking mobile objects and or defining their location in the grid. - the more you have, the more the server needs to work. - so spilling out an appropriate number of life pods - even if they have a rather short half life can freeze the fluidness of combat. - its like we cannot have battleships break up into too many ( or rather an appropriate number of actual chunks ) - but if they just turn into one immobile wreck - the server is not under too much stress.

it can also be RPed that the winner can interact with such a wreck.

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