I had this idea a while ago and I threw it at CCP Manifest a few months ago, but I don't know if it got anywhere.

So the idea was to have a ship that did bonus damage to structures.
This would be used full for small alliances and corporations that can't field 70-300 man fleets like the other nullsec power houses.

This would be used full for small alliances and corporations that can't field 70-300 man fleets like the other nullsec power houses.

And large alliances would be able to steamroll that much more effectively.

Dreads are already pretty good for this.

You can't use a dread to shoot at a large POS tower in high sec.


I can attest that shooting a POS in high sec with a small wardec corp fielding 10-15 BS takes a very very very very very long time.

So you want a ship that is more effective than subcaps for shooting structures, but can't be used for anything else? It sounds like you're looking for something called a dreadnought.

I'm trying to address the fact that when you're in a small alliance, that only fields about 20-30 people, and you go to a POS bash in stealth bombers, and it takes about 2-3 hours to take down a large pos, there should be an alternative, a ship that is more efficient than what there is now.

pulse apocs/geddons

I had this idea a while ago and I threw it at CCP Manifest a few months ago, but I don't know if it got anywhere.

So the idea was to have a ship that did bonus damage to structures.
This would be used full for small alliances and corporations that can't field 70-300 man fleets like the other nullsec power houses.

Dreads are only good for this.

I'm trying to address the fact that when you're in a small alliance, that only fields about 20-30 people, and you go to a POS bash in stealth bombers, and it takes about 2-3 hours to take down a large pos, there should be an alternative, a ship that is more efficient than what there is now.

There is. They're called DREADNOUGHTS

You don't need an entire new ship. Simply Release new battleship guns(no missiles unless very high cycle time) with nil tracking, as in when you warp on grid, it takes a few minutes for your gun to get aimed at the target. If someone bumps you, your tracking would take a minute or two to re-adjust.

Bomber's paradise, effectiveness ruined if the targets has the smallest amount of velocity.

And what would stop the not-so-small alliances from fielding bigger fleet of these ships? also, dreads?

Cool concept, but that'd make null sec alliances win that much faster.

I can just see them hot dropping a zerg swarm of them to hit the pos and then run.

What this game actually needs if for capital ships to take more materials and more time to build.

The same should go for POSs too...

You don't need an entire new ship. Simply Release new battleship guns(no missiles unless very high cycle time) with nil tracking, as in when you warp on grid, it takes a few minutes for your gun to get aimed at the target. If someone bumps you, your tracking would take a minute or two to re-adjust.

Bomber's paradise, effectiveness ruined if the targets has the smallest amount of velocity.

Bunker Buster bombs. No area of effect, merely a shaped charge that is tremendously useful against stuctures but useless against anything else (Unless the target is sitting perfectly still, and if you don't want them to be affected have a mass requirement in place that must be met or the bomb won't detonate).

How about a battleship-sized gun with lousy tracking that deals damage on a %-base?
You know, like the sorceress in Diablo II...don't remember how that skill was called, but it zapped about 15% off the total hitpoints of the target with each use.
Of course this would be totally OP against supercapitals...so you could screw the tracking so much that it wouldn't even hit a titan. Or you could welcome it as an opportunity to reduce supercap population.