Nikk Narrel
Infinite Improbability Inc
Mordus Angels
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Posted - 2012.01.20 03:09:00 -
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Thread name: Seawolf in space
New Cap ship proposed: Size of a cruiser, but has all cap disadvantages:
A lot of skill points needed
Slow speed
Turns slowly when aligning (it won't warp quickly)
Very expensive
Requires a cyno to change systems, (covert or regular).
Advantages:
Has a special cloak instead of a shield, cannot be decloaked by proximity as regular CovOps types. As long as shield is above 5% the vessel is cloaked.
Has a high damage weapon. (Unspecified, but maybe something like multiple bomb launchers, 3 or 4)
Fires weapon while cloaked.
Counter: A destroyer type was suggested, using a new probe type similar to interdiction probes, but would instead strip the cloaking shields from anything within 15 KM. This effect provisionally would also pop any regular cloaks, but this may be cancelled by balance issues, or just tweaked to not make gate camps free death traps to CovOps.
If anyone has ever played the simulations for submarine warfare, most commonly from world war 2, you are familiar with this class of naval vessel.
Not a big ship, like a battle ship, but very dangerous, and focusing on strategies not found currently in EVE.
In naval warfare, these subs would try to sneak up on an enemy. They would observe the ship's progress, and then shoot torpedoes at the ship. The weapon has no eve equivalent, since nothing a cruiser sized vessel can fire will destroy a battleship in a single volley.
If the target survived, the sub did not make their life easier by sticking around on the surface, they stayed hidden and tried to finish the job.
Now, why am I referring to this?
I am suggesting a new type of capital ship. Smaller, (cruiser sized), and more likely to be undetectable as it never decloaks.
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Detail, if explanation needed: This really is not a traditional cloak. It put's the ship out of phase with other objects, making the familiar 2,000 meter decloaking effect meaningless to it.
This is why damage is exclusive to the shield cloak initially, as it is the only thing the rest of the universe can interact with.
(Yes, it can fire outwards, but only projectiles / missiles since they need to pass through the shield to reenter the universe with their targets. Beam weapons and hybrids do not have the needed time to reenter realspace before hitting a viable target) |