Bait to boarding

[nerezzar]

Hi,

Considering that there are dedicated crew combat strategies and pirates out there I feel like the game's missing an option to lure the opponent onto your ship to start crew combat.

E.g. I'm a merchant and facing a pirate. I don't want to do ship combat because repair with shitty modules is expensive af. But if I surrender all my cargo is gone.

Imo, a skill "Let them come" from BH/merchant/smuggler would be nice. From the random encounter screen you go straight to crew combat. If you win, you get another combat with the option to sabotage the enemy ship. After that, it's ship combat.
Your ship probably needs a debuff like "emergency engine start up" because noone in their right mind will Board a ship ready for combat unless forcing it.

I just find it weird that you can't set traps for the enemy like that.

Obviously only works against enemies that WANT to board, e.g. enemy zealot, pirate and so on.

[fallen]

Thanks for the suggestion! If the enemy wants to board you, they will try to do so in ship combat.

[nerezzar]

And how do they get my cargo if I surrender?

[fallen]

You surrender, shut down your void engine and they board your ship.

[thanatos1311]

I believe he is referring to the time honored tradition of the false surrender/ambush scenario. would require a new mechanic for starting the ship combat and a number of other changes, but it is not a bad idea. a special talent lets you store a charge in your weapons bays to open fire as they prepare to board, or a talent that lets you ambush that boarding team, then leads to combat at range 1 with half reactor points or some such. the equivalent of an old sail navy closing the cannon ports and dropping sail only to fire through the port hatches and mob across the deck. even just a smuggler skill to booby trap the cargo, causing it to blow up in their hold, though i suppose any of these changes would be potentially complicated

[fallen]

Oh yah, I do know what we're talking about

Sounds like suicide in the void.