Weapon Class Proposal

[Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever]

In another game, its similar to FL but not as deep (fleet command sim i think the genre's called)
Anyways.
You know how you can shoot off devices if you have skill and preisicion weaponry? Right now its pretty much impossible, so everyone just goes the old fashoned hull killing way.

But what if there are Laser weapons speicifically designed to kill 'devices' such as weapons, CMS, Mines, ect.

Does very little hull damage but lots of device damage somehow. it would be so presice as to only hit devices.

It would hold the laser for about 2-3 seconds before letting go and a little cooldown time and again. This way lawfull organizatinos could RP better, by 'disabling their ship and boarding to take him into custody'

the lasers would be expensive, 500k each. These could be adapted for capital ships in later versions but fighters and bombers it would be quite usefull...

Light Laser - Holds the laser for little time but light refire time.

Heavy Laser - Holds for a long time, high refire time and high damage.

[SevereTrinity]

For equipment to be damaged, they need to take damage, the same type as hull, and if you hit all equipment, you also do hull, my answer to this proposal: No.

Show me a way to implement it with evidence and I'll be happy.

[Guest]

The overall idea is nice, yet you dont really need it if you have splash damage weapons. 6 javelins can shoot off your weapons easally. 2 dragonflies are enough to kill your SN (sorry bout that, Leeroy c.c) and nukemines can easally disable your ship after a few hits. I had killed a guys shield compleatly, upon scanning it showed a empty slot. since its so easy to do, even easyer when using subtargeting, i dont see any need for such weapons.

[Saigo.Watanabe]

yes, my bomber despite not having the best anti-fighter loadout since the limited energy has 2 slots for missiles and the sole purpose is to shoot off all the fighters guns leaving it vunerable to attack to finish it off.

Again, as sindroms said, with subtargeting, these weapons would not be needed.

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[SevereTrinity]

tbh, you can even shoot shields guns etc. off with guns only, I once had a guy shoot the train CD and shield off of my lib GB..... from his Spyglass, whilst I was dodging >.<

[Ash]

I can see where your coming from on the police point of view but its just too hard to even think of how it can be done.

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[SevereTrinity]

Thats the point, it ain't possible, its impossible without the source code ^.^

[Tenacity]

Some weapon types actually do more component damage than others.

Example - I've flown a lot of fighter characters in my time here, and while flying something that used laser type guns or tachyon type guns or whatnot, I rarely 'blew the wings' off of NPC fighters.

However, when I was repping up my hogosha I used a fighter with their plasma cannons, and could - with one or two shots - blast the wings off of GC npc fighters.

Which leads me to believe that plasma weapons, like missiles, deal more component damage than standard weapons.

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[Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever]

heh, it was just an idea. I think just nuke mining the ship would be better, even though those are extremely overpowered but whatever.

[Saigo.Watanabe]

Some weapon types actually do more component damage than others.

Example - I've flown a lot of fighter characters in my time here, and while flying something that used laser type guns or tachyon type guns or whatnot, I rarely 'blew the wings' off of NPC fighters.

However, when I was repping up my hogosha I used a fighter with their plasma cannons, and could - with one or two shots - blast the wings off of GC npc fighters.

Which leads me to believe that plasma weapons, like missiles, deal more component damage than standard weapons.

on that, it also depends on the difficulty of the npc's you are fighting, for example i could go kill some corsairs and blowing their wings for example is harder then it is blowing up a NPC gc-wings:P

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"Time is too precious to be idle." - Saigo Watanabe
"Death is something that is inevitable, Something you cannot run away from." - Katharina Hildegard
Now going under the gaming name: Seraxia
www.twitter.com/Seraxia