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Audri Fisher
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Posted - 2006.03.02 21:50:00 -
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I know that it will probably never come to pass for several reasons, most importantly that it would take a long time to code, and it would require a complete rebalance. It is still fun to speculate though.
These ideas would do several things; It would give frigates, destroyers, and intercepters a new and very valuble role in fleet combat. It would also open up a door for tech II Battleships that wouldn't be a "wtfpwnmobile"
One final thing before I get into the meat and potatoes, I am a US Marine, which is a branch of the naval service, so I use standard Naval designations for ships.
CVA = Fleet carrier
BB = Battleship
CL = Cruiser
DD = destroyer
FF or FFG = frigate
We already have stealth bombers in eve, and used correctly, they can be very useful in scirmish and ambush warfare. They are the eve equilivent of B-2's and F-117's. Long before Airforces around the war started toying with these ideas though Navies had used there NAutical equilivent, the submarine, which comes in 2 flavors, attack submarines, and Missle boats.
Attack submarines, are large ships worst nightmare that make them wish for the four horseman to come instead. They are very hard to detect, and require constant viligence in case they might be out there. That is why destroyers and to a lesser extent frigates exist, to protect your cruisers, Battleships, and carriers from these monsters from the deep.
Balistic Missle submarines avoid contact with othe naval units at all cost, there only mission is to wreak havoc on the support structure that supports the enemies navy. In Eve that would be POS and stations.
Destroyers are small escort ships that are primarily tasked with anti sumbarine warefar. Right now, tech I destroyers do one thing well, they are effiecint tech I frig killers, however, that role is extremely limited. similer to the bonuses that stealth bombers get to cruise missle launchers, destroyers could get bonuses to large or extra large smart bombs. maybe they could get a bonus to extend a smartbombs range as well... It is a very crude method, and like depth charges, "smart"bombs are pretty indiscriminate, but hey, they get the job done.
A destroyer dedicated to anti sub work is very vulnerable to other threats, that is why they are escorted in turn by frigates, who's job is to keep drones and intercepters off of them.
There has to be balance in these new "sub" classes, so here is a rough outline.
Attack subs: can carry torpedo racks, say up to 4-5, very long reload time though, they also can fit a special module that allows them to reduce ther sig radious drasticaly, this however can't be used withen 30 seconds of fireing....
Ballistic Missle submarines: can carry up 20, yes I said 20 citidel torpedo's and they get bonuses to range. There are however no reloads. once the bolt is shot, its shot, you have to redock to reload. they naturaly have a tiny sig radious, smaller than an inties, but they can't recloak with 5 mins of shooting there torpedoes, that many launchers going off at one is the biggest neon sighn in the world.
anyway, these are very rough ideas, but like I said, it is fun to specualte isn't it?
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Kyozoku
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Posted - 2006.03.02 22:00:00 -
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I coudln't be bothered to read that but can I have a giant space squid to counter the submarines?
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Daivasth
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Posted - 2006.03.02 22:41:00 -
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wrong forum, post in ideas forum.
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Abraxas Glyf
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Posted - 2006.03.02 22:55:00 -
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I really like your idea about giving destroyers a bonus to smartbombs; it would go a long way to making this ship a viable member of a gang/FB and not an amusing detour from frigate to cruiser.
But the previous poster was right, it's in the wrong forum 
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Alan Freshley
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Posted - 2006.03.02 23:16:00 -
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Finally I find someone else who uses BB for battleship. Been waiting long for that one.
Semper Fi |
The Knight
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Posted - 2006.03.02 23:19:00 -
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 Originally by: Kyozoku
I coudln't be bothered to read that but can I have a giant space squid to counter the submarines?
Its too bad you couldn't be bothered to move onto another thread instead of making a dumb comment in this one.
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Exogene
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Posted - 2006.03.02 23:49:00 -
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I suppose they don't teach US Marines how to spell 
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War Drumb
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Posted - 2006.03.03 00:03:00 -
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Ok well lets start with your ideas.... I like the smart bomb idea a Desy with MWD and Smart bombs...I can see them now covering an area after a SB has warped in.... trying to hunt it down.... Maybe give them a Ping system that gives a chance to blipping the SB on the scanner for a sec. All in all not to bad. But the rest of it I will leave to CCP as they are always working on the balance of the game.
For the rest of you flammers.... get a life! at least he is thinking. All your flamming takes is a keyboad and no "date night" =¦
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Gray Carmicheal
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Posted - 2006.03.03 00:04:00 -
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Originally by: Exogene
I suppose they don't teach US Marines how to spell(.)
But appearently they've also stopped teaching punctuation in grade school...
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Deja Thoris
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Posted - 2006.03.03 00:15:00 -
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Originally by: Gray Carmicheal
Originally by: Exogene
I suppose they don't teach US Marines how to spell(.)
appearently
Karma police
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Sarmaul
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Posted - 2006.03.03 00:16:00 -
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some good ideas in there
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Exogene
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Posted - 2006.03.03 00:35:00 -
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Originally by: Gray Carmicheal
But appearently they've also stopped teaching punctuation in grade school...
I usually use a smiley for 2 purposes
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Hamatitio
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Posted - 2006.03.03 00:41:00 -
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Ah, the grammar, spelling, and punctuation police have arrived.
But in short, no. This is not the military.
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KittyPilot
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Posted - 2006.03.03 00:54:00 -
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Audri, I posted (on the "Ideas" forum) a quick message asking readers to come here and read this. I applaud your sound thinking about how DDs might be gainfully employed(finally!!) in Eve. Such a 'picket screen' would be extremely effective against ANY cloaked vessels...4 DDs in front of a fleet kicking off SBs would force them to either flee or uncload FAR earlier than they want to...
I hope the Developers make something happen with this...I think it's a great idea.
KittyPilot
now where is my "Destroyer" destroyer?
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Exogene
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Posted - 2006.03.03 00:55:00 -
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It was supposed to be a joke. Guess some people don't have a sense of humour 
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Cade Morrigan
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Posted - 2006.03.03 03:36:00 -
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I'd like to see Defenders used on small ships as a screen to defend larger fleet ships from incoming missiles and torps.
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Joerd Toastius
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Posted - 2006.03.03 10:57:00 -
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Originally by: Gray Carmicheal
Originally by: Exogene
I suppose they don't teach US Marines how to spell(.)
But appearently they've also stopped teaching punctuation in grade school...
Convention is not to use a period when the sentence is ended by a smiley.
WRT the OP, while I'd love destroyers to be more effective, I don't understand the reasons for turning Eve into a modern naval combat sim with space graphics.
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Bbllaarrgg
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Posted - 2006.03.03 11:50:00 -
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Originally by: Exogene
I suppose they don't teach US Marines how to spell
They do teach them how to kick geeky pc nerds arses tho 
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Tyler Lowe
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Posted - 2006.03.03 11:58:00 -
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Well expressed, but I can't agree with the proposed roles for any of the ship classes indicated. I think the "attack sub" role is sufficient for stealth bombers. Thay exist, IMO, to give some punch to covert ops groups so they can take down a large (BB sized) target quickly once a vulnerable target is located by a covert ops frigate, which is very good at scouting, but lacks the firepower neccesary to deal with targets of opportunity it may locate. I'd rather not see a virtually unstoppable first strike capability against POS be put into effect.
I do think the tech I DD needs a real purpose in game beyond giving new players a taste of what a ship with more than 4 high slots can do. I also like the notion of a screen of destroyers clearing out potential hidden menaces in the form of those "attack subs". Perhaps a new high slot module for DD which could disrupt cloak within a burst radius of say, 20km?
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Gariuys
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Posted - 2006.03.03 12:00:00 -
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Originally by: Joerd Toastius
WRT the OP, while I'd love destroyers to be more effective, I don't understand the reasons for turning Eve into a modern naval combat sim with space graphics.
Well said.
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Boris2k
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Posted - 2006.03.03 12:21:00 -
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in reply to the destroyer/smartbomb idea, ofcoarse no one in their right mind in an intie or frigate are gonan want to orbit the destroyer... so give the destroyer 2-3 tractors.... and a smart bomb bonus :D and a tank, then nerf its gunning abilities
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War Drumb
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Posted - 2006.03.03 16:07:00 -
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Edited by: War Drumb on 03/03/2006 16:07:14
The cool thing is that a manitore can wipe a DD with one salvo... The dule would be in its favor if it can keep range... cheep and fun on the DD side.... I like it.
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Susa Ou
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Posted - 2006.03.03 17:39:00 -
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Originally by: Alan Freshley
Finally I find someone else who uses BB for battleship. Been waiting long for that one.
Semper Fi
Its Navy speak. Saddly, BB is used to designate the Black Bird EW cruiser a lot here - which throws me off - but once you fell the effects of EW in fleet, you stop asking questions.
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Cierst
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Posted - 2006.03.03 19:42:00 -
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Though I think implementing all of those ideas would be seriously unbalanced (particularly the POS-destroying boomer  ), some of those ideas are really nice.
I would like to see the stealth bomber get a boost in firepower, and if the destroyers also get a ping-like ability, it wouldn't be too unbalanced.
In the spirit of the topic though, I have a new idea. Since you're basing these ideas off real world ships, how about we make pods more like life boats? In other words, a buddy has to come pick you up, you can't really get anywhere on your own power.
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Montero
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Posted - 2006.03.03 20:22:00 -
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Edited by: Montero on 03/03/2006 20:22:31
this isn't the navy, this is imaginary spaceships. remember that guys, this isnt aserious military action it's us pretending we're spacemen. we're all incredibly sad people.
btw i didnt like your ideas much, especially using US navy abreviations for ships, because this isn't the US navy, it's eve.
edit: and you don't get submarines in space.
now leave my sig alone damn ISD |
Audri Fisher
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Posted - 2006.03.03 20:24:00 -
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Originally by: Montero
Edited by: Montero on 03/03/2006 20:22:31
this isn't the navy, this is imaginary spaceships. remember that guys, this isnt aserious military action it's us pretending we're spacemen. we're all incredibly sad people.
btw i didnt like your ideas much, especially using US navy abreviations for ships, because this isn't the US navy, it's eve.
syas the person with a hacked up version of the rifleman's creed in there sig.
edit: and you don't get submarines in space.
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Montero
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Posted - 2006.03.03 20:33:00 -
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Edited by: Montero on 03/03/2006 20:33:37
yea it's a joke dude, im a pacifist in rl ;)
if i ever found myselrf saying that about a rifle and meaning it i'd end myself.
ps. you stacked the quote.
now leave my sig alone damn ISD |
Vandar Broheem
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Posted - 2006.03.03 20:39:00 -
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Originally by: Montero
Edited by: Montero on 03/03/2006 20:22:31
this isn't the navy, this is imaginary spaceships. remember that guys, this isnt aserious military action it's us pretending we're spacemen. we're all incredibly sad people.
btw i didnt like your ideas much, especially using US navy abreviations for ships, because this isn't the US navy, it's eve.
edit: and you don't get submarines in space.
True this isn't the Navy...
However, and this goes for just about everybody, think for a bit about pretty much every space show/game/etc. all use Naval armed forces for a guideline. From ship classes and use to officer designations it all has a Naval theme.
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wierchas noobhunter
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Posted - 2006.03.03 20:45:00 -
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can we have giant space slug plz ?
join soar angelic
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Montero
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Posted - 2006.03.03 21:11:00 -
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i fought a smartbombing dessie in my autoclaw once. i loled him back to his clone vat.
now leave my sig alone damn ISD |
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