Capturing vs. Self-Destruct

[BP]

I was just brushing up on this in the manual and it said that you can capture an enemy ship with a successful assault pod attack. A bit later it said that your ships will self-destruct before falling into enemy hands. Does this mean human player can take enemy ships but never the reverse? Hardly seems fair...

[madmax88]

Hum, i think it means as follow:

- A ship with the Self-destruct mechanism has a 90% chance of exploding if taken over by the attacker's pod. So that it doesn't fall into the enemy's hand.
- If the attacker has the bomb disposal mechanism and the defender has the self-destruct mechanism, THEN this chance falls to 50%.
- This is good for both you and the computer

[BP]

Thanks Max, that makes more sense. It doesn't explain it in quite that detail in the manual.

[BP]

Oops, my mistake. If you keep reading it comes back to assault pods about 20 pages later and explains this. Very meandering...