There are too many real world balances that make the capture of a fully crewed starship too difficult to addequately represent in a game.

Not Really if you think about it because dependant on how much the ship has been damaged or evacuated its not and if the Ship's Captian surrenders to you then its feesable.

What part of Imperial military doctrine would make you think that any Imperial ship would surrender?

erm the fact that several did at the end of Endor and in the battle for Coruscant 1.

Both of those events happened after the death of the Emperor. Current (EAW timeline) doctrine would dictate self destruction rather.

Yes but if you were the captian what would you do? destroy your ship and escape then be killed by Vader for it. or surrender and disappear?

Someone else needs to chime in on this thread as it is turning into a delayed chat, but anyway.

 

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tactics/TrekkieCombat-2.html

Click on this link to get a good description of what an attempted capture of an Imperial ship would be like. Skip to the actual engagement and substitute Rebels for Federation. The important piece of this article to pay attention to is how the Imperials react to the boarding and capture attempt.

thats not what it would be like the Empire run on greed. the captian's would sell there own Grandmother for a Credit and sum favour.

destroy yourself and ship and be killed by Vader for it

 

If you killed yourself how could Vader kill you?

Yeah sorry my bad changed it now.

 

Yes but if you were the captian what would you do? destroy your ship and escape then be killed by Vader for it. or surrender and disappear?

It would be likely that destroying your ship would be a quick death versus vader, plus killing yourself won't make Vader want to go after your family.

thats not what it would be like the Empire run on greed. the captian's would sell there own Grandmother for a Credit and sum favour.

 

A few Imperial high commanders did take advantage of the dissaray that the Emperor's death caused to sieze control of areas and basically become warlords (all of this is in EU). But, the normal ISD captain is a soldier, not a beaurocrat. The situation described in that article will be what you will run into in 1999 of the 2000 ISDs you would come across.