Can you blast and damage hangars? This question has been around as long as Hardwar. The controversy began quite a while back when it was noticed by several players that the faction facilities being bombed in Reservoir always seemed to have ConstMat being delivered to them.

My initial thoughts were that if the buildings could be damaged, they could be destroyed. I tried with everything to destroy buildings and couldn't. I also noticed that no ConstMat was being delivered to the hangars I blasted. Based on those early results, I posted that buildings cannot be destroyed and that a player shooting at them had no effect.

I've been proven wrong by recent experiments by both FireSlash and Flap. Buildings cannot be destroyed, but they do order ConstMat when bombed. The Tactical Nukes, Big Bob, and Blaster (U3.00 only) are the missiles to do this with. The others have little effect on a building.

From FireSlash:

I tinkered with the idea [of blasting buildings]. So, I did the following:

Bought a hanger.
Deposited it with 7000cr
set the damage to full in the TI.

Sure enough, a silver-y came along with some constmat. He took a while, and I began to wonder a bit, so I checked on the hanger's funds. Sure enough, they were dropping at a constant rate. So, it appears that nuking buildings does cost a bit. I didn't check if the constmat gets unloaded into the hangar or not, but I doubt it.

With this, I bet you could drive a business bankrupt with a few dozen nukes. I'm going to do some checks on what damages buildings in a day or so (aka as I have time), but I thought this might interest you.

One more note, If you withdraw all of the money from the hangar, the silver-y leaves, so if a hangar has no money, it won't be repaired, but access to the hangar (as far as I could tell) is not hampered by the damage.

FireSlash used the Terminal Interface of the U3.00 betas to monitor the game. Flap used game logs and sent me a saved game.

I got to experimenting with blasting buildings again with new results. I used game logs on my original version F2.1. I first nuked random businesses, and sure enough, ConstMat was eventually delivered to them.

Next I found something even more interesting. I began nuking pirate hangars. In the original version of the game, private hangars cannot buy things from traders. They can't order ConstMat! So, the pirate himself went out for some, which I pirated.

The next pirate spawned in that hangar also tried to make a ConstMat run. Normally, AI pirates only buy weapons (and hangars). I'm anxious to see where this leads.

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