stylesrj wrote:Unless you end up in a Singularity your Long Range Scanners couldn't detect and you run out of fuel.
Yes, I get it, there is always the possibility of some freak occurance happening that can bring you down.
estel wrote:I meant the situation, when you get hit 3 times in a row by anti-crew laser that shots such volley in one shot, and it's enough to kill your crew member
Oh well, I've played CE only for a few runs so far. Wasn't aware that some anti-person weapons could kill a crewmember in a single volley (sounds pretty strong in the hands of a player...
). Still, I'd argue that psychologically speaking, even when the chances of both things happening would be identical, you would have a better response of "wow look at that, my enemy got SO lucky!" rather than "okay, I got a random event killing me... >_<". Two reasons for that:
1. You can quite easily calculate the chances of 1/2/3 random shots hitting the same location, giving you the solace of an "extremely lucky" shot at least.
2. When encountering the event, you are already in bad luck. Your brain processes the odds "after the fact" and doesn't process how supposedly absurdly low the chances of encountering this event were. It just notices that now, that you've got it, you're probably losing a crewmember.
But in all honesty, if everyone is fine with it I don't want to push my personal opinion further.
One last note concerning statistics though:
Estel wrote:Even more often, you get hit twice, send your crew member to medbay immediately via auto-pause, and he got shot by rest of the volley on his way there.
The chance for that should be identical to three shots hitting the same room. Unless you're counting on-the-edge-between-two-rooms-and-can-be-hit-in-both (I'm not sure if that's possible).