Ship Destruction

I find that the effects when you destroy ships in this game are rather anti climatic. Anyone have thoughts on what mod resources we may have to make ship explosions/debris a bit more, well, violent? I'd prefer to see Capital ships slowly blast themselves apart and leave floating hulks for 10-20 seconds. Right now I just dont feel like I accomplish anything when I blow up a "massive resource investment" in one quick bang

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Well, when they give us the ability to edit the .entity files, presumably we could put the Novalith shot impact animation in place of the existing capital ship explosion, but that might be a bit overkill

Even that wouldn't give you your "hulled ship" floating around. But they already have debris models, so making "bigger debris" models should be possible.

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Couldn't you add a buff to all ships that spawns an animated death clone on..death? (I know this is a buff type). Failing that, just make a giant particle explosion and end up having the death clone just sit there and float around.

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Wrecks certainly would add a nice touch. At the very least there should be ones for capital ships and cruisers. Maybe just small chunks for the frigates.

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