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Originally Posted by Racerboy

That must be some kind of super ship. Any ship I've ever seen that has a breach in it's hull ultimately sinks....the degree of sinking determined by size of breach. Why are we going backwards here? This is a SIM not a shoot'em up game!
We'll see how much they improve the explosions and the SFX. I'll lay money down saying they will be a minor improvement that will need to be modded (once again).

This is by no means unrealistic!
Ships for instance have a fore-peak (if this the wrong term please correct). It is specifically designed to take hits and survive. A ship can, and have, stay(ed) afloaIf a compartment shears off at a watertight bulkhead, but the bulkhead itself isn't damaged a ship will stay afloat. Case in point: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...IsP3-AaN-pGMAw

Scroll down till you see HMS Exrpess with its -entire bow- blown off and still alive (sort of).

But