Justdaveisfine

I have never been able to successfully talk my friends into playing Starfinder.

Which is so frustrating because I find it interesting.

Oh most definitely. I don't want my players to fail (if I can help it) and generally try to reward creative thinking, but also want their victories to be earned and not just fudged rolls or suddenly dumb NPCs.

I think where the line gets crossed is when they're doing actions their character would never do, or they're trying to poke holes in the set without a clear goal. I usually ask additional questions to see what they expect to happen (in case they are playing 4D chess), but sometimes they're just trying to cause chaos, in which case I got to pull them aside and give them the talk.

In my experiences, every time someone does something incredibly bold like that, they get mad their actions have consequences.

I think some people really just want a DM to roll with their shenanigans all the time.

So actually to add onto this, this was bothering me so I had to look into it further:

I was very incorrect - Hyperspace isn't a pocket dimension per se and you can hit things while moving through hyperspace. The reason they 'sometimes' get past shields is because shields have a refresh rate so it may be able to phase through if you get it just right.

I'm more with you on this now, its a little ridiculous that no ones really tried to weaponize hyperdrive engines.

As far as I know all droids in Star Wars have free will.

Han Solo gambled and won the Falcon from Lando (who appears well off), it was definitely too expensive for him to have bought normally.

I think the hyperspace battering ram is funky, but I believe it was less that it was a good tactical idea and more of the First Order being extremely arrogant by not having their shields up, not using a tractor beam, and not just sending a smaller ship forward to close the gap and blowing it up.

I think the movie wanted to show that they were savoring the victory and were willing to draw it out as they believed the rebels were drowning in hopelessness.

As I recall, hyperspace is like a pocket dimension. They just speed up a whole lot to enter hyperspace. So you can't collide with things 'in hyperspace', but only as you're going really fast while transitioning to hyperspace, which is quite a bit more limited in capability.

Hyperspace drives are expensive, and droids are sentient (so its still suicidal). Using it as a weapon would be like having an shotgun in an fps game, where the first 5 feet is extremely lethal to really big targets, whereas anything after that is a waste of time. Also each shot is $10k.

The real question would be why didn't she just splat against the cruiser's shields as they established that was a problem in the previous movie (when they need to hyperspace through the shielding of that planet), unless they had a Galaxy Quest moment where they forgot to flip the shields on.