Combat Zone - Ship Assault

Ship Assault is a space player-vs-player Combat Zone involving two teams. The objective in this zone is for the red team to attack and destroy a large warship defended by the blue team.

Description
The target ship is far more powerful than the average capital ship and is protected by a stronger-than-average deflector shield. The only way to bring the shield down is to either decrease it's hitpoints to zero with concentrated fire or by destroying the shield generators with shield-bypassing weapons such as torpedoes or mass-drivers.

Once the shield is down, attacking ships can then target the remaining hardpoints and sub-systems on the ship. Once all sub-systems have been taken down, the ship itself shall be destroyed.

However, there are other methods of destroying the ship. Once the shield is down, players in small ships such as transports and fighters can land in the hangar. Once onboard, the goal of invaders is to destroy the primary reactor core. To access the reactor, the player must first destroy several ship systems in order to shutdown the reactor defences. Once the defences are down, invaders can set the reactor to overload. Once the overload has been triggered, players shall possess a few seconds to escape the ship before it is destroyed. Player who survive the destruction of the ship shall possess a greater score on the scoreboard.