I was thinking, as I watched my corp mate being shredded by a friendly orbital in a PC match, there must be a better option in the far far future for selectively laying waste to one's enemies and cutting out the friendly fire. Obviously, we already have this in pub matches without friendly fire, so what about a completely different approach to bombardment?

I was considering a destroyer overhead with nanite cluster bombs (or missiles) in their bays. Squad commanders could have the option to call these instead of a standard strike. The idea is a resulting cloud of Nantes coded to the friendlies to swing a pitched battle without devastating your own ground force. I imagine the actual effect as maybe a 20 meter radius wyrkomi triage hive - or whatever level of effectiveness would be balanced as an orbital level intervention. Perhaps there could even be a shield rep variant?

What do you think?

I hate to disagree, but no. This takes out the strategy in PC matches. Trying to avoid shooting friendlies, or anything else along those lines, are all the characteristics of PC, and taking them out would make matches even easier.

Well. We already have Projectile Orbitals which only strip the shields. I don't see what would be wrong with a weaker and smaller nanite orbital which doesn't effect friendlies.

I hate to disagree, but no. This takes out the strategy in PC matches. Trying to avoid shooting friendlies, or anything else along those lines, are all the characteristics of PC, and taking them out would make matches even easier.