What the hell is wrong with you, ship hulls?

[RefocusedLight]

Seriously. Taking down a corvette in a small fighter with ion guns takes a long time, minutes on end purely firing point blank- yet when the captain bails with hull at 30% the remaining hull is taken down in 3 shots.

I'd really like to know what it is that happens to the hull when captain leaves - for that to be possible.

At first i thought it turns into butter.

After a more careful consideration, It's not turning into butter after all - because the physical properties of a massive, 48t shell of butter hardened by cosmic cold would in fact allow more than a couple of piercing/focused shots before the thing falls apart. Also it would have greasy fragments stuck on your ship afterwards.

i give up. What is it?

[otto_deluxe]

I also noticed that when pilots bail,the hull is set to ~1-3%, even if they bail at 50%. Probably some balance nonsense, so you have to laser the thing for longer when you repair it.

[Tomonor]

I also noticed that when pilots bail,the hull is set to ~1-3%, even if they bail at 50%. Probably some balance nonsense, so you have to laser the thing for longer when you repair it.

I think it's more along the lines of if the whole crew bails the ship, the resulting destruction of the ships' modules lower the hull even more (since they explode).

Thus it is possible that the ship self destructs once the escape pods are out.

[RefocusedLight]

nvm, i found out - i think meringue might do it, if it's properly nice - fluffy and brittle. then if we had mouse guns we could switch to those - so each projectile mouse takes only a little bite from the meringue ship instead of shattering it.