Goonhub
05-22-2015, 10:59 AM
Is this two more minutes on the shuttle in addition to the three minutes it spends at the station? Those three minutes are already either incredibly dangerous or incredibly boring. Lengthening it by two minutes, while making it virtually impossible to return to the shuttle if you get spaced during those final two minutes, sounds pretty nasty, since the shuttle's much too small to be safe for anyone if things get violent.
Three minutes is just short enough that a prudent and prepared person can cling to life out of pure spite until the timer is up - even when somebody bombs the shuttle, somebody else sets the entire thing on fire at the same time, and then a third person wearing space armor and dual-wielding lasers shows up to shoot anyone who's still standing and space everyone that isn't. Bumping the time up to five minutes means more time for the stubborn to die and the best-armed person to get full control over the chaos, and moving through space puts an end to daring capers where you hurl every last thing in your inventory while dodging laser fire to get back onto the shuttle in the nick of time, just to spit in the face of that jerk who spaced you.
Three minutes is just short enough that a prudent and prepared person can cling to life out of pure spite until the timer is up - even when somebody bombs the shuttle, somebody else sets the entire thing on fire at the same time, and then a third person wearing space armor and dual-wielding lasers shows up to shoot anyone who's still standing and space everyone that isn't. Bumping the time up to five minutes means more time for the stubborn to die and the best-armed person to get full control over the chaos, and moving through space puts an end to daring capers where you hurl every last thing in your inventory while dodging laser fire to get back onto the shuttle in the nick of time, just to spit in the face of that jerk who spaced you.