Malachon Draco
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Posted - 2007.05.07 15:50:00 -
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 Originally by: Earthan
I still propose my solution wich everybody seemed to hate at its first show on fourms:) :
Intoroduce penalties of shooting more then for example x ships of each class shooting at same target of y class.
lets say x for bs for shooting at y=bs class is 5
lets say cruisers is 2 time more when shooting at bs.So its 10 cruisers shooting at bs without penlty.
So for example if 5 bs shoot at a full dmg they do full dmg if sixth join it does less dmg if seeventh even less etc.
It would force, even if big blobs meet, to have divisions of 10-12 ships wich would target one enemy target, because fring with 40 persons on one target would be very wasteful as the 10th and further bs would do hardly any dmg.
In long term imho it woudl discourage blobs as it would be nearly same to fight 12 us 12 suqadron as would be 100 us 100.And propably even a squad of 12 against 100 would kill some enemy ships before going down.
Its complicated yes and seem artifical but its my only idea and i believe it could work.
Ofc it could also prove to calculation hvy for servers...
1. Takes too much server power to calculate, now you'd have to keep track of exactly who is shooting at who, how many of them there are and which number of attacker it is. May not seem like much calculations, unless you tie it in with point 2. below...
2. How do you determine who is firing at who exactly? If I and 5 buddies shoot at mr X in the first second, and then 8 seconds later 6 other guys fire at mr X, do they get a penalty? You'd have to decide on timers (how long do I have to stop shooting at mr X to exclude me from the calculations of being one of the shooters at him?) and keep track of them.
3. I can envision some exploits by doing ineffective friendly fire to protect some ships. For example, what happens if I try to shoot one of my own frigs at 200km range with Quake L ammo. I won't ever hit him (optimal + falloff is like 70km) but I would take one of the 'slots' to shoot at the frig. Depending on how you do it, there can/will be abuse.
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