This week I worked on the “Partial damage”
I tried to give player a little more chance to survive and this is what I come up to: if the player's ship is sideswiped it doesn't explode, instead only the hitten wing is damaged.
This partial damage is automatically recovered in a few seconds BUT during this time the player can only rotate using the intact wing.
In other words he must endure rotating only in one direction till the recover is fully completed.