Peter Powers
FinFleet
Raiden.
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Posted - 2011.05.06 11:19:00 -
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Edited by: Peter Powers on 06/05/2011 11:21:21
 Originally by: Kuronaga
I'm pretty certain even in modern terms, modern railguns trump the hell out of your standard artillery load in terms of "bang".
i think you are confusing two sorts of railguns there,
there is the wwii rail(waygun, which is basically a big artillery on rails - yeah much more bang than smaller artillery,
and then there is whats basically a gun that accelerates a conductive projectile along a pair of metal rails, a so called EMRG (electro magnetic rail gun).
Now the most effective EMRG prototype tested so far, and i wouldnt call a prototype a modern gun, a modern gun should be produced in series,
fired a 3kg projectile which had about the kinetic energy that a projectile fired from a regular leopard 2 tank has.
Now while the leo2 is an impressive tank and has an impressive gun, this is far from the output that a modern artiellery manages.
Originally by: Kuronaga
lasers kind of just have the lolscifi factor to them, realistic
application is sorta gimped unless you count setting lifeboats on fire as a major military achievement.
while it is a prototype with a very specific goal to achive,
the most powerfull laser so far has reached an energy output of 1.3 Petawatt in 1998 - trust me, a lifeboat is not the only thing that you could kill with that amount of energy.
Originally by: Kuronaga
How is it that minmatar crap tech is somehow more terrifying then a railgun firing ANTIMATTER?
I mean, no... you're doing it wrong.
The effects of antimatter are hardly researched nowadays, mostly because the quantities it can be produced, and the containment. Now the question is how much energy puts an eve railgun out?
and about the minmatar crap tech, minmatar can use nuclear ammo, and i believe their missiles mount nukes aswell.
and,
the most important reason for it all:
EVE is a game in a sci-fi setting, each race has their specialities, which makes for a balanced game.
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Peter Powers
FinFleet
Raiden.
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Posted - 2011.05.06 11:25:00 -
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Originally by: Chaos Incarnate
guys, i have a very important question pertinent to this thread
if a borg cube fought a star destroyer, which would win?
seeing at how federation science vessels have defeated the borg on numerous occasions (Enterprise, Voyager..) i assume its pretty safe to say that a war machine like a star destroyer would have the edge here. the question is more, are the opressed star destroyer crews smart enough to modify the phase variance??
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