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[A1Dasdfsdkli4r2]

The core was almost a separate ship. It wasn't like picking off turbolaser batteries. Are you sure about the ROTJ example. Also, those aren't shield generators, they have the ship's sensors.

If your're talking about the ROTJ core, they STILL targeted hardpoints on the core! And even if they were sensors it's a moot point since those are still a hardpoint.

(pulls out shotgun and kills rabbit before trail continues)
Listen, obviously I'm not advocating having 5000 hardpoints on a SSD, that's ridiculous, but could it be possible for a battery of guns to be disabled when:

a. they take enough damage from the same direction. (or in the same general areas of the ship)
b. each hardpoint is disabled at the same time as a certain amount of health is eaten away by incoming fire. (turbolaser at 5% health, engines at 25%, etc)

I'm obviously not a programmer, so I suggest these ideas and see if somebody with a little better know how than me thinks it's possible.

I'm pretty sure that's impossible. This has been discussed before, and Phoenix is looking into it, but I think that it will be destroyable but not targetable.

I don't care how it gets done but it needs to be done.

[Kaleb Graff]

I don't care how it gets done but it needs to be done.

That's how it likely will be done. However, I bet that things like engines and shields won't be hardpointed.

[TheEmpire]

I hope engines will but not shields. Makes the game to easy.

[A1Dasdfsdkli4r2]

hey empire; Where'd your first quote on your signature come from?

[Kaleb Graff]

I hope engines will but not shields. Makes the game to easy.

The engines wouldn't be too good, because you couldn't target them. I agree on the shields.

hey empire; Where'd your first quote on your signature come from?

It came from new VVG.

[Clubby]

And that acronym stands for?...

[TheEmpire]

New essential Guide to Vehicles & Vessels

[Kaleb Graff]

And that acronym stands for?...

Sorry about that.

[A1Dasdfsdkli4r2]

would that be the big floppy one with color pics or the paperback?

[Kaleb Graff]

would that be the big floppy one with color pics or the paperback?

The latter.

[Phoenix Rising]

The only thing you can do is to tell your targeting priorities to favor a certain hardpoint type over another. You can't really have one hardpoint take out a bank of lasers unless you want everything looking like the MC80s when they fire...