Yes. What we need is a weapon that reminds me of Star Control for some reason. While we are at it, let's add some shields which recharge via incoming enemy fire & giant spinning space blades.

To reply more seriously, you should clarify exactly what you intend. A smartbomb that ignores all damage resistance is not really an idea that makes any sense - there is no way that can be balanced, unless it has pathetic damage.

Now, if you are talking about a module that works like a smartbomb, but only pulls or pushes ships within it's (small) radius, that might make a bit more sense, I suppose.

P.S. Now I have to find and listen the to Ur-Quan theme from SCII...

Check what dryson suggested above.I was thinking something like that with nice graphics that you could see the spheres or fields you launched at the opponent.Of course you could have counter measure for that.

So it basicaly would be a Smartbomb?

But wasnt the Damage bypassing all resists the main point of this idea?

But wasnt the Damage bypassing all resists the main point of this idea?

Can you think of a way to balance that? I can't.

Please look up how railguns work.

EDIT: Btw, the Armor of spaceships usually is not made out of any kind of metal.

Here is another way the mechanic could work. Earlier at the corps POS in .2 I ran into a parked Iteron IV at full speed with a Venture. The Venture nearly flipped the Iteron IV end over end. I then approached the Iteron IV at a close range of 500m and the Venture still cause the Iteron IV's engines to turn on and move several meters.

The same mechanics involved with bumping could be used in a module where the field extends around the ship at various distances and would bump the attacked ship in various magnitudes.

Magnetic fields drop as an inverse square of distance. More likely would be an electromagnetic lance that interacts with the target's shields and armour energy fields to push/pull as required. I doubt magnetics would work against the ship itself as most materials would likely be very light non ferrous alloys , ceramics, and plastics.

Oh, and rail guns aren't magnetic weapons as such, they are high amp elctromagnetic weapons. An enormous charge passes across the ammo (usually saboted) which induces a velocity on the ammo slug via the three-finger rule in physics (can't remember the proper name). These weapons exist now and are under test for naval applications

Yes something like that.The idea is to have new weapons and not make eve more complex.

railguns use magnetic fields to shoot plasma.........the OP proposes something akin to an smartbomb........you activate it and send a magnetic puls, TBH that sounds more like an EWAR module than a weapon......