Fireships...should they live on after explosion ?

[Skully]

You shouldn't be able to survive a fireship explosion, regardless of how much crew you start with. The crew penalty modifier should be high though, a fireship should be capable of fully maneuvering and the odd couple of shots.

 

What definitely should not be an option is blowing up a tower and then capping it with your remaining ~10 crew.

 

TL;DR: BOOM, Dead.

[Skully]

I think admin will just love seeing a fireship light up with green-to-green shots. We might as well say, that if you disable survival you initiate your own fire (may or may not be limited to fireships).

[DeRuyter]

IMO the problem is that fireships have been implemented by a Module which does not really account for how fireships were actually used. Should be a cratfable commsuable to turn a regular ship into a fire ship for example. Even if the Fireship Fitting module remains it should have penalties such as:

 

- remove guns.

- reduce crew to minimum to sail ship.

- no survival or putting out fire once lit.

-fireship captain should be able to set fire with a timer or someone suggested make it like boarding prep.

 

Now there is no worries about green v green to set the fireship alight.  

[Skully]

Once you reduce crew to say 50% or 40% you already have a big penalty. Reduce cannons by 50% as well, so you can still shoot just a bit. Survival works as always, but turned off it will initiate a fire.

I think turning it back on with those crew penalties not save you anyway, especially under fire. While it does give you enough control to ensure a nice explosion position.

[EL LOCO]

Just had a fire ship experience and thought it was the most stupid stuff I have ever seen in this game.  

 

I am on a fast stripped down over crewed frigate with 340 men.   theres a 4 to 4 fight and I chose to try to board a enemy frigate.   He has fireship mod and explodes near me killing 270 men but he still has 270 men on his frigate.   I am now forced to crew with only 70 men and can barely escape as he chains me and then boards me.

He easily wins.        Don't get it.   I have extra hammocks, grogs, swords and marines , boarding parties...all exceptional.  

 

Plain stupid if you ask me.    If he lost most of his men (90%) then it might be fun but this is just plain stupid.

 

I saw a Victory go down the same way by a Consti and the consti boarded and won.   stupid.

[maturin]

Just had a fire ship experience and thought it was the most stupid stuff I have ever seen in this game.  

 

I am on a fast stripped down over crewed frigate with 340 men.   theres a 4 to 4 fight and I chose to try to board a enemy frigate.   He has fireship mod and explodes near me killing 270 men but he still has 270 men on his frigate.   I am now forced to crew with only 70 men and can barely escape as he chains me and then boards me.

He easily wins.        Don't get it.   I have extra hammocks, grogs, swords and marines , boarding parties...all exceptional.  

 

Plain stupid if you ask me.    If he lost most of his men (90%) then it might be fun but this is just plain stupid.

 

I saw a Victory go down the same way by a Consti and the consti boarded and won.   stupid.

That sort of situation warrants hotfixing out AoE damage entirely.