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Epegi Givo
Amarr Moral Equivalent Of War
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Posted - 2009.06.06 19:17:00 -
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what if, instead of firing a huge blast to wipe out all <BS sized craft (making non-cap ships close to obsolete) the titan would fire a death-star style shot to blast through 2 carriers? Or destroy a dread? Or if you get a couple of them, blast a hole straight through another titan.
It pretty much firing single shot that goes a certain distance, and dealing a certain amount of damage along the way.
(Note, I have no clue what actual healths are.) Lets say an avatar fires a huge laser, which deals 1 million damage. There is a poor cruiser sitting in front of the titan, it gets destroyed, podded, and wreck blown up. it took 30k damage to do all that so the super-laser now has 970k damage left.
The laser then hits a dread, taking 500k to kill, pod, and destroy the wreck. The laser now has 470k damage left.
then it hits a mothership, which has more 600k HP. The super-laser will hit it, deal severe damage to the enemy Mom, and then stop there leaving the Mom with 170k HP left.
The super-laser will then recharge again in 5 minutes, ready to cause more chaos.
Of coarse the number will need some tweaking, but you should get my general idea.
Yes, it can be used against POSs too.
Also it deals a 5th damage type, which only POSs can fit resists for, and get 99 resists in Reinforced. |
Mr Unpleasant
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Posted - 2009.06.06 22:05:00 -
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it won't happen because weapons are not line of sight based in eve.
they'd have to completely redo code to make your idea work... |
Lanze Karides
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Posted - 2009.06.06 23:54:00 -
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Well, I think you would not need to give it this piercing effect, but rather just a weapon that blasts its single target away ?
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AtheistOfDoom
Amarr The Athiest Syndicate Advocated Destruction
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Posted - 2009.06.07 00:01:00 -
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Your idea doesnt work in theory or practice. And then, he killed the dog... |
Epegi Givo
Amarr Moral Equivalent Of War
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Posted - 2009.06.07 02:59:00 -
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you could just program a certain kind of weapon that is LOS based.
And it should be piercing because it is meant to turn the titan into an anti-cap/POS, not an anti fighter.
and mind explaining why it won't work? ------------------------------------- My other alt is a Ferrari |
Dalton West
Minmatar Corp 1 Allstars
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Posted - 2009.06.07 07:16:00 -
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i think u watched to much stargate, no this wouldn't work, 1 server issues with calculating the direction of the laser, the laser damage, whats being destroyed (i think) also this would really really boost the need of multiple titans where now titans can take out battleships and slower like that, ruin the whole purpose of a titan of being a big bomb :) |
Mohenna
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Posted - 2009.06.07 08:29:00 -
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I sign
Originally by: Dalton West ruin the whole purpose of a titan of being a big bomb :)
I think that's the point of the OP (as well as the desire of many, like the guys who did the conga line...)
The cost of firing the weapon should be higher than the cost of a cruiser (perhaps even a battlecruiser?) to make the shot not worth it against noobs. |
Clansworth
Farstrider Industries MARS WARFARE CENTRE
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Posted - 2009.06.07 10:10:00 -
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Not so much LOS based, but to base this on the 'super weapon' in the recent pre-apocrypha chronicles, this could be a leaper type weapon. It is fired at a primary target, and from there, it 'leaps' to nearby targets, with the leftover energy leaping around until it is all consumed (like your proposal). This would have a 'leap range' that would ensure it focuses on a smaller area of the battlefield. This would also lead it to being more anti-blob, and more spread out targets would be less impacted by it. Also, it would look pretty cool to boot. |
Epegi Givo
Amarr Moral Equivalent Of War
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Posted - 2009.06.07 18:54:00 -
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Originally by: Clansworth Not so much LOS based, but to base this on the 'super weapon' in the recent pre-apocrypha chronicles, this could be a leaper type weapon. It is fired at a primary target, and from there, it 'leaps' to nearby targets, with the leftover energy leaping around until it is all consumed (like your proposal). This would have a 'leap range' that would ensure it focuses on a smaller area of the battlefield. This would also lead it to being more anti-blob, and more spread out targets would be less impacted by it. Also, it would look pretty cool to boot.
If LOS doesn't work (which I think it still can, just would not be easy) then leaper would still be good, but would be awesome is if it only jumped to targets within in X distance (Like 10 km to 20km, preferring who is closest) so it would jsut randomly kill people, but not be able to kill them all.
But it would be much better as a huge beam because this gives the titan a role of anti-cap ship. And it would make having multiple titans helpful, but not horribly overpowered. |
Epegi Givo
Amarr Moral Equivalent Of War
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Posted - 2009.06.09 02:21:00 -
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nothing else to add? ------------------------------------- My other alt is a Ferrari
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Pvt Public7
Amarr Imperial Academy
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Posted - 2009.06.09 02:41:00 -
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Make DD scriptable for a single target, just like hictor fields went focused. *NOD Obelisk of Light sound effect goes here* --- SWA was here IAC is a loser |
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Posted - 2009.06.09 02:42:00 -
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Originally by: Epegi Givo
The laser then hits a dread, taking 500k to kill, pod, and destroy the wreck. The laser now has 470k damage left.
then it hits a mothership, which has more 600k HP.
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Epegi Givo
Amarr Moral Equivalent Of War
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Posted - 2009.06.09 20:23:00 -
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Originally by: bandwidth
Originally by: Epegi Givo
The laser then hits a dread, taking 500k to kill, pod, and destroy the wreck. The laser now has 470k damage left.
then it hits a mothership, which has more 600k HP.
like I said, I haven't got the slightest clue what actual numbers are.
Also the purpose is to make it so 2 titans can't defend a cyno-jammed on their own against hundreds of little guys.
So having it as a script just defeats the whole purpose of it, and will only make the DDD more overpowered.
What having it as a beam will do is keep the number of cap ships in check, because anything sub-cap that pays attention will be able to avoid the shot, but capital ships will be almost completely helpless against its beam of death. |
Xailz
Godless Horizon.
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Posted - 2009.06.09 20:36:00 -
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I would love the leap idea but then I, too, watch too much stargate
Xz ------ I came, i saw, i posted **** ITT.
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Epegi Givo
Amarr Moral Equivalent Of War
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Posted - 2009.06.14 05:30:00 -
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Nothing else to add? |
TedJanitor
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Posted - 2009.06.14 14:05:00 -
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Love the leap idea, seems like there are practicality issues with LOS weapons, but leap idea could be refined - what if it gave a proportion of it's energy up based on the ship's mass or signature radias, meaning frigs should eascape mostly, whereas battleships and caps will suffer to a much greater degree - yet again this agrees with CCP's goal of making frigs and cruisers more attactive alternatives to battleships etc.
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