Ship Explosion Damage

[Linkus]

When a big ship goes boom, lets up the radius of the damage it does to other ships.

Why? Well, these things carry around reactors and engines that are capable of transporting the vessel at speeds that we could only dream of right now. The weapons that the ships fire are nothing compared to the powercore that powers them.
Think about a Mortar, it takes up most of the powercore of smaller ships.
Imagine a weapon that takes up all the powercore, in one big go (no recharging even), blasting out from the centre of the ship.

That's pretty damn powerful.

So maybe we should have this reflected ingame.

Big ass ship going boom?
Let's make that boom hurt.

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Facilitating the rise of robotics since 0 A.D.

[Linkus]

Tis the fault of the bombers if they stay that close.
You don't exactly fire an RPG at a tank while you stand right next to it.

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Facilitating the rise of robotics since 0 A.D.

[Tovig]

Completely agreed. When you blow up a battleship and you stay just at 5 meter of it, you don't take any damage. A battleship explosion should devastate anything within 1k minimum.

[Captain]

BS should do 1,5k radius
BC should do 1,0k radius
Cruisers/destroyers 0,75k radius
and GB's 0,4k radius

do yeah

LNS-XXXX has died by LR-something (gun)

random LR died becuase he where too close (explosion range)
random LR died becuase he where too close (explosion range)
random LR died becuase he where too close (explosion range)
random LR died becuase he where too close (explosion range)
random LR died becuase he where too close (explosion range)
random LR died becuase he where too close (explosion range)

would be fun tough

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[schlurbi]

We already have that...I have seen several Fighters popping up directly after the Capital Ship's Explosion. That almost killed me a few Times too.

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"Who is it doing this synthetic type of alpha beta psychedelic funkin'?"

[Sprolf]

I want my Barges to nuke an entire system.








But seriously, I'm in favour of this idea.

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[Tenacity]

I'd say only apply this to battleships, and only a 500m radius around the ship, with damage equivalent to that of a nova torpedo.

It's easy enough to stay 500m from a battleship if you're in a small craft, but at the same time if the bs captain is lucky he can catch an enemy capship in the blast as he goes down.

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[Death.RunningVerminator]

/signed

Would be great. Though, what if a puny starflea was sitting by the ship when it explodes?

It's a good idea, yes, but i wouldn't necessarily enjoy it... Knowing that several bombers (including me) took out 6 caps in liberty.. Two of them were carriers. I mean, seriously. If this was implemented, a carrier being destroyed would be like a system losing power for an hour...

[Not Espi]

somehow reminds me of walker in the sp campaign.

also - i have a feeling this has been proposed before.

[MarvinCZ]

The current values are:

BS
damage: 50k
range: 800m

Cruiser
damage: 15k
range: 500m

GB
damage: 5k
range: 250m

The range should NOT get any higher.
The strength could do with a small increase, though. Also, there may be different values on vanilla caps, that will need further checking.