I know bumping is a fundamental game mechanic that has been expanded on with upgrades and it is certainly unrealistic to change the rule now. But hypothetically speaking, do you think the game would have a more dog fight feel if instead of ships bumping when they overlapped, they would be moved passed each other (still touching and loss of an action)? I think this would need a new set of maneuver templates, like the collision ones in vassal but it would eliminate the incredibly unrealistic traffic jams in space (not that I have ever been in a traffic jam in space).

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Did you mean to say "boost" in the title?

and.... you still looked at it and replied.... I think you need to rethink your use of filters...

Just now, BenDay said:

and.... you still looked at it and replied.... I think you need to rethink your use of filters...

... Or at least my sense of humor.

no not a boost because it would not necessarily be that far. but yeah a similar idea, but you loose your action

thematically it would be like the pilot pushing his ship a little bit harder to save his neck as apposed to putting on the space breaks.

It's just urine.

... Okay, this went to a weirder place than I intended. (TWSS.) Okay, okay, I give up.

EDIT: To actually respond to the OP: I think it would be different, but interesting.

3 hours ago, BenDay said:

no not a boost because it would not necessarily be that far. but yeah a similar idea, but you loose your action

What the **** do you mean by squirted then? Do you mean if they skirted past each other?

Really? The lair of Satan is a censored word here? Yikes!

Bump and Squirt. No further comment needed.

7 minutes ago, Slugrage said:

Bump and Squirt. No further comment needed.

Only if I'm lucky and the wife is in a good mood....

16 minutes ago, Dr Zoidberg said:

Only if I'm lucky and the wife is in a good mood....

With all those 'in' and 'out' threads on the main page, it was just a matter of time before this one came too....

4 hours ago, Jeff Wilder said:

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NSFW?

Ok, I give up!

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This thread is awesome

6 minutes ago, Dr Zoidberg said:

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I see, said the old guy in the corner.

Good idea, poor choice of words (unless you're trolling )

Scoot, skirt, boost, slide... All better descriptions

Which upgrades would be adversely affected by changing to this style? The "overlap" term would apply just as well to this as bumping, you just can't permanently block with Oicunn + ion projector or otherwise fortress. If fortressing becomes a serious issue I think this rule change would be an elegant solution.

I think it would be a pain in the *** if every time you bumped, you had to lift up/proxy the ship you overlapped, to put a template down underneath them, so that you could figure out what facing you should have on the other side.

Now, on the other hand, if they loosened the restrictions on where the ship was placed on the other side, that would be brilliant. With that version, you might not have to fuss around with templates and proxies at ALL, if the rules are written well. You might just place your ship touching one of the other side. As long as it's not possible to abuse somehow, that could be very nice.

I think a alternative mechanic with some kind of cardboard token in the size auf a small/large base, that can be placed underneath would also be a cool solution....as long as no more than lets say 3 ships occupy the same space this would bumping remove completely

1 hour ago, vonstryker said:

This thread is awesome

This is the greatest thread ever.

4 minutes ago, mkevans80 said:

I think it would be a pain in the *** if every time you bumped, you had to lift up/proxy the ship you overlapped, to put a template down underneath them, so that you could figure out what facing you should have on the other side.

Now, on the other hand, if they loosened the restrictions on where the ship was placed on the other side, that would be brilliant. With that version, you might not have to fuss around with templates and proxies at ALL, if the rules are written well. You might just place your ship touching one of the other side. As long as it's not possible to abuse somehow, that could be very nice.

Well, as it is now, you usually end up having to run the "train tracks" and sometimes moving multiple ships.

If you just ran the tracks out the other side, placed the ship on them and then moved the ship back along them so it's touching the ship is squirted past, which by the way, will never get old saying, then it shouldn't be too hard.

It would be interesting to see how this changes certain ship builds, like bumpmasters and Heff Tober. It would break fortressing, which is good imo. Playing near the edge would be even more dangerous, as you could get squirted right off the edge.

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Squirted.

You'd need acrylic range rulers. Cardboard just won't handle the pressure.

wouldn't that render several cards completely pointless?