Strange combat behaviour

[ppeter82]

Hi All,

I tried to find a relevant thread for no avail, so forgive me if I missed the right place, this is my first post here, getting out from the read-only state

Yesterday I ran into a strange combat situation, when my captain was flying his ship back to the closest Indie planet after a very successful but exhaustive (ship-wise) blockading. I had some nice cargo obiously and it attracted a pirate with very good ship stats and from a somewhat hostile faction. I was trying to escape, but despite my high Pilot skills (approx. 180 % of my level) I miserably failed. So I decided to oppose them and manage to torp and gun them down a little bit, then tried to get close and board trying to exploit my Warrior skills.

After several shots to their engines and decks I saw that they were not really scratched and my ship started to look really bad. As I was playing on Challenging I knew that this is an "All in, you bastards!" moment.

So I went for advancing and boarding. After several attempts and some further damage to my ship (Engine levels dropped to 3) I managed to Duel several times with the enemy captain and filed in some injuries for him. Then I had to board again as they tried to get away and on the second attempt a message said that I killed the enemy captain and at the same time, my Engines dropped to zero. Also Victory appeared on the screen.

Needless to say, I was really happy that I won the fight as the opposing ship was more stronger than mine and was planning to take it over. 

Then on the next screen I was shocked to face the fact that my engines were destroyed, I had run out of oxygen and the opposing ship looted mine. Then got back to my original ship (which had a few points in Engines again, I can't recall if only one or more) and managed to get to the Indie planet with an empty hold

Is this normal behaviour, did anyone run into this before? Maybe a bug?
(For me it would be logical if I board and kill the enemy captain and know that my ship's engines are dead I would stay on the new ship, transfer the cargo from my old one and sail further with the new.)

I am playing the Elite version on a Sony Z1 Compact.

Greetings from Hungary!

Peter

[Cory Trese]

Sounds like normal behavior -- and an edge case.

In this case you killed the Enemy Captain but lost Engines. You can check the Ship Log for the exact sequence.

Your ship was considered Defeated in a Sector and a Stealth check was made. Again, check the Ship's Log for that info.

I've considered removing this set of rules, but ST RPG is really surprisingly complex and I haven't figured out a better way to implement this condition without causing crashes.

Glad your disabled ship was found by Pirates, not a hostile BH =)

[poryg]

Same thing happened to me against a smuggler, I totally destroyed his hull, but he got my engines, so the debris looted my ship by force

[Cory Trese]

LOL, funny funny ... just FYI, it was the Sector owner that looted your ship by force.