Does destroying a ship's engines have any effect?

He answered the question as it pertains to physics (be it right or wrong). He never said he liked or disliked the mini-game at all.

Cut down on the coffee.

its beena long day and I have a lot of hate towards this minigame-- I'll tone it down

The extra targets on ships do give bonus experience while levelling, and as you outlevel space combat levels more bonus missions are added if you go back, lastly I love the space combat, it would be cool to have ships explode if you destroy every target, maybe something for the future.

Destroying all the turrets doesnt do much either, ive destroyed all shield generators, turrets, and engines on a ship and it still flies and shoots at me like I didnt do anything..I guess just extra experience :/

Just to counter some of the hate in this thread, I actually really like the space combat. It's quick, easy and gives decent xp at lower levels. And blowing up engines is a bonus mission on some of the maps, that's it.

Please make this happen BW. Space is a lot of fun but it would be so much better if the capital ships would explode and go away. It looks like everything is a 3d object in the game so it should be possible to create an explosion that covers the object the remove it from the mission. It's disappointing to destroy every single spot on a ship and not get that big explosion we deserve. It'd also be fun to have different ways to take out ships. If you wanted to destroy all the turrets and the engines that could make it explode, or if you destroyed both shield generators and then the engines maybe that would make it explode?

The fighter tenders in the mine mission, make those blow up, preferably break apart at that mid point you have to hit. Same with the mine layer. That huge capital ship in sarapin/clouds mission, once you take out the bridge maybe have that beast start burning up in the atmosphere?

Something should happen to the space station in that cartel/something mission where you have to attack the space station.

And in the end of that aeten defense mission (bombers attacking station, you're on defense) that last ship you get to fire at that warps out, that should not warp out if you take out the engines. Let us tear that up and have it blow up, would be a satisfying end to that mission.

Destroying turrets has a huge impact, but you are right that if all are destroyed it still has one turbolaser that cannot be destroyed, or even seen. The bolt seems to just come out of the ship itself.

If you don't like the space combat mini-game, don't play it. It's completely, 100% optional. Why anyone thought space combat was going to be some huge, free-form thing is beyond me. SWtOR was never about space combat, it's a little something extra they added to the game. I, personally, think it's pretty fun, although there are certainly improvements that could be made.

They're not ever going to devote huge resources into the space combat, as well they shouldn't. It's a gosh darn mini-game. It's not the game.

As to the OP's point... I haven't noticed destroying the engines of a ship having any real impact, no.

Edit: LOL at word filter changing "g0ddamn" to "gosh darn".

Hmm, I haven't seen a single post in this thread saying that if you blow up the engines, the ship gradually falls out of the mission. That's what happens when I blow up their engines when I play anyway.

Cheers.

Is going back, torpedoing those hard targets dozens of levels later, even worth it though?

Do they actually give experience enough, to compensate for getting nothing for the rest of the mission?