To set the scene, here's a set of messages from a friend I'm playing with in multiplayer:
"aight
lessons learned
don't put a nuclear reactor where an asteroid might hit
BOOOM"
This sounds quite fun, but he mentioned on Discord after that the experience of the actual destruction was a bit disappointing (his exact words, "a bit lame"). Apparently he only saw maybe a few frames or half a second before the platform just vanished and the camera switched (because the central hub got blown up). It was fairly anti-climatic to what could have quite a grand spectacle.
Games like Kerbal Space Program show that it's possible to make losing fun, if your spacecraft disintegrates in amusing and dramatic ways.
It would be nice to have a proper death / destruction / self-destruct sequence to the space platforms, rather than them simply vanishing instantly into the aether. Other animations that are already in the game are great fun (like the sequence when you launch yourself into orbit), it would be great to have one in this case.
