i dont like the idea and this is prob 1 of the specail things about advent

I don't know. I'm a big fan of detail and muti-tasking but that's a little too much, even for me. There's a lot of battles and a lot more ships all over the place at any given time, all the time.

I think it's a cool idea, I've wondered about it myself. It's just in Sins you can't watch commandoes running through the insides of ships shooting the captains and crew like in opening sequences of Halo 1 because Sins is really a grand scale of everything.

no no no! it should be an option for sova carriers, something like mariner carrier, or inflitrator. then you can have 2 little things on the tech tree, one ship boarding, and the other ship boarding defense

what about something where you don't see the insides of a ship, that would be WAY too complicated. i'm saying go on level, if you have a cap (capital) ship has a higher level, then a better chance. maybe limit it to sovas or kols, or another race, and only when they get to a certain level. and you have to limit it to cap ships.

But Yarlen, that doesn't stop TEC players from taking over other TEC faction ships...hehe, just being a smartass.

Still, Nexus: The Jupitor Incident type commandos that board enemies and cause ship system slowdowns/problems would be cool.

I don't think so. There's really no time left to work in a mechanic like this even if we did want it.  Perhaps we'll revisit if there's a Sins expansion pack.

Naw, I've done Room and Boarding when I went to College and University. I really don't want to do that again.

necromance much?

Other than that, the destruction would be neat, maybe weaken it so that the ship's stats/health go down until the team is killed/forced to pull out as the commandos blow chunks out of the hull, but I can see the point of not including it, because it does add micro, and one of the best things about this game is the low degree of micro required.

Maybe not boarding in the traditional since that a group of soldiers blasts their way around the ship but maybe a similar tactic could fit in Sins. I would be warm to the idea of having a computer virus that could infect a vessel and perhaps make it fire at friendly ships or something of that nature.

The idea is not to have an added graphic with the special forces fighting the crew, but only that a transport ship leaves one of your capital ships and docks on the shieldless ship. All that happens is that there will be a bar that shows the status of your special forces teams while they try to bring down the ship. The thing is that you do not know how strong the ships inner defenses are (which could upgraded by the enemy), but you roll the dice anyway.

The balance of the game would not be offset and sending special forces does not guarantee success. It is a two shot deal, you will not have the option to use the teams more than two times (there would only be two teams) and even then they could be captured (which would be pretty cool if a ship had a elite crew that captures the operators, which in turn gives the enemy vital intel on the capital ship they deployed from).

The idea would be like a trump card, you throw it out there and hope for the best, it would add more to the table and is automatic, no micro-managing because once you target the ship and deploy the SF team, they are on their own (you would only get a radio message if they were lost or succeeded). You would be free to attack other targets with more forces, but if the gamble fails, you could end up in a tough situation.

I think this idea could be explored and either modded into the game (or in a patch) or added as an expansion. You would only need one ship model, some text, a gui file for the status bar, and a couple of radio messages.

While borading may be out, I would not be in the least surprised to see a "Mind Control" type ability on one of the Advent cap ships. Perhaps as a super ability to temporarily take control over a lesser frigate/cruiser of the opposition. The Advent have giant ships filled with psychics after all, temporarily making a smaller enemy ship attack their own allies seems plausible.

Or if range concearns are that much of an issue, perhaps an Advent cap ship ability which just causes nearby enemy fighters to turn on each other. Anti-fighter cap ship abilities seem to be everywhere, and if a capital ship full of psychics cannot control the mind of a single pilot in a single fighter... well then they aren't very psychically gifted after all

As for such abilities being antimatter-fueled... I dunno. The Advent could eat it in their candy bars for all we know. Think Dune and spice, something like that.

Well, it would be nice to have a boarding party to at least be able to board a damaged or abandoned ship to gather resources, personnel, or even intel that could be used against a fleet in SP. It would only help to advance a story or even lead to other situations in SP. Actually, I like that idea better than my original statement, because it is not influencing the battles or affecting balance in the game. It is just a way for players to send a team to investigate a enemy ships or even planets (much like how Hegemonia used the spys in that game).

Something to consider.