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Snoop Dong
Oruze Cruise
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Posted - 2015.04.11 19:23:21 -
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I feel these would be an interesting addiction to the game.
You could have neut smartbomb battleships as a counter to capital blobs.
ECM burst smartbombs to help disengage or lower the dps of your opposing fleet. Of course they should differ from the standard ecm burst, perhaps larger range.
They would have to be balanced somehow, lower tank / high fitting requirement, to get the risk/reward right.
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Alric Rosenthal
Caliburn Company
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Posted - 2015.04.11 20:03:19 -
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Problem is that you could not use neut smart bombs in a group of battleships. You would neut and be neuted out every time your battleship group pulsed their smart bombs. Also since they are not a targeted module and they are aoe, they would need to be considerably less effective when taking a single target into account. With the reduced effectiveness and inability to work in a smart bombing group I just don't see how neut smart bombs would be a viable item to fit.
If the ECM smartbomb would be like the ECM burst then why do we need it? There is already a device in the game that fills said role and is balanced based on the current research, meta, and game dynamics. You could not just increase the range as this would make ECM smart bombs more effective than ECM burst and people would completely stop using ECM bursts.
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Snoop Dong
Oruze Cruise
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Posted - 2015.04.11 22:07:12 -
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Alric Rosenthal wrote:Problem is that you could not use neut smart bombs in a group of battleships. You would neut and be neuted out every time your battleship group pulsed their smart bombs.
This is a good point. However say it would not be possible to group the battleships due to this, you could still use them solo/one after the other, to a decent effect. Or you could do the neut amount as a percentage, so it will not immediately neut out your group and they can get some good pulses in.
Alric Rosenthal wrote:If the ECM smartbomb would be like the ECM burst then why do we need it? There is already a device in the game that fills said role and is balanced based on the current research, meta, and game dynamics. You could not just increase the range as this would make ECM smart bombs more effective than ECM burst and people would completely stop using ECM bursts.
Ideally the ecm smartbomb would not be identical to the burst. Perhaps one could be short range higher strength, the other long range lower strength? It would also be nice for the smartbomb type to match up with the bomb types, nice and neat. |
Icebears
ThinkTank Industries II
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Posted - 2015.04.11 22:13:22 -
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Vampire Smartbombs maybe?
ECM Smartbomb.
I don't see how it can be different than a regular ECM Burst or Target Breaker Spectrum, even if it's just a buffed ECM Burst, it's still a ECM Burst |
Snoop Dong
Oruze Cruise
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Posted - 2015.04.11 22:31:12 -
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Icebears wrote:Vampire Smartbombs maybe?
Could be a possibility. ECM smartbombs not looking so hot now.
I wonder if the engine would allow area of effect tracking disrupting /sensor damping? Obviously it would have to be less effective than its targeted brother but could be interesting. Maybe even aoe painting.
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FireFrenzy
Satan's Unicorns
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Posted - 2015.04.12 08:55:32 -
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vampire smartbombs... :-|
SO MUCH WIN |
Lugh Crow-Slave
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Posted - 2015.04.12 11:24:14 -
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Snoop Dong wrote:
It would also be nice for the smartbomb type to match up with the bomb types, nice and neat.
oooh its just another "everything needs to be the same" no need for a reason
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