Thats probaly why he sujested it as a very expencive wepon, so thats why not many ppl will have it? But what about it being something like a Countermesure drooper or a type of mine that enabuls all ships desabeld excpt the fighter that launched it?
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A friend of mine had the idea of a 'self-destruct' for ships. I expanded upon that, making it into a mine with a large radius that did alot of damage, but cost alot of money and destroyed the user aswell(Unless the user was able to escape to about 4K away)
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If there was the cloaking ability, well it would be too easy for anybody to scout every movement of your opponents without opening fire even in their clan owned systems which would not be good. I dont think this is a good idea to implement for disco.
Seriously, that IS a good idea, especially if it's applied to capital ships, maybe ONLY to capital ships, since their engines are essentially big hydrogen bombs. We might try to integrate that later.
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Cloaked capital ships.. Do i get it right what you say!? If i do, this would be mad. I cant imagine how much a cloaked battleship would mess the game balance. You infiltrate undetected with a battleship, Hell no way !!
He was talking about the Self-Destruct. I was messing about editing yesterday, I was making an uber-missile and ended up dying most of time time it was used, as I put the Explosion radius to 500 and the Detonation range to 400. Things kept flying to close and blowing me up.
Good for fighters, bad for Capital ships, You would need two, one to lower the shield and one to destroy the hull, The problem with capital ships is they are big so the mine/missile would need massive damage and massive explosion radius, thereby killing all nearby fighters, transports, cruisers etc. Plus, a quick Battleship pilot, could drop/fire one, regen his shield, fire the second one and kill everyone nearby who wasnt expecting it.
Fighter however, hmmm, You could give it high damage so its a threat to battleships(and to make it worth while rather than just use Novas). And a shorter range, like 100m or something. You could also make the weapon cause damage when fired(enough to kill any fighter) so that it causes the fighter to die for sure rather than just lose their shields.
The problem is, a Nova does 44k hull damage per shot, how high can you make a Self Destruct? 100k? 200k? 300k? Kind of unbalanced that a tiny fighter could do that much damage.
I`d rather have a self-destruct for its main purpose, to quicky commit suicide. A Doom mine or something, radius 500m, firing the mine causes enough damage to blow up anyship, and the mine itself has about 30k hull/shield damage.
Hmm, but would not that create suicide bombers which could cause unbalanced power to gain the upperhand in pvp when they are outnumbered? Just think about a skilled pilot in an agile ship. He would be a great threat for grouped ships, with sneaking near them and detonating himself. And there would prolly be so many people up to mourning about this.
You could make the Mine(you only need 1 remember) Hidiously expensive. (for a fighter's ammo). The explosion range could be changed to 100-300, anything. Really a last attempt by a losing fighter to take the life of his enemy at the cost of hit own.
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