We consider the dynamics of finite system of spherical particles where a fraction of the kenetic energy may be lost during collisions. We present a simple demonstration that the set of initial condiguration leading to infinitely many collisions in finite time can have positive measure, contrary to the hard collision (energy conservation) case, in which this particular set is claimed to be empty. We also show that after sufficient time a system will decouple into maximal substems. This generalizes proofs that in the hard sphere case there can be at most finitely many collisions for almost all initial configurations.