Tallen Ellecon
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Posted - 2014.02.12 16:51:00 -
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Why not set up vehicles and vehicle skills like EVE ships?
Give each level of a vehicle's skill a bonus which can be capacitor oriented, and racially towards racial weapons.
Why not change all cooldown bonuses to capacitor use bonuses?
For those who don't know, ships in EVE have capacitors which use charge to fire weapons and activate modules. It's similar in practice to the setup we have now, but instead of having multiple hardeners and alternating you would be limited to the length of time any high powered module would run. On top of that making hybrid and laser based weaponry tied to capacitors it give an interesting setup for future Minmatar and Amarr vehicles using Projectile and Laser setups in EVE.
Projectile Weapons use no capacitor but are ammo based.
Laser weapons are capacitor heavy, but require no ammo.
Hybrid weapons are ammo based, but require less capacitor than Amarr.
By tying skill bonuses to the racial vehicle skills like they are in EVE you separate the level 1 tanks from the level 5 tanks, making pub tank spam require more SP investment. By adding capacitors you open up new weapon modules ideas and EWAR. What if there was an EMP nade or equipment that worked similar to a flux that neutralized a capacitor, making it impossible for a vehicle to activate any module until their capacitor recharged?
This idea also helps balance the future Mimatar and Amarr vehicles. Minmatar would have less health but greater speed and be far less capacitor reliant, while inversely the Amarr would have the most but be the slowest.
Setup in the future would be similar to set up now, tanks would only be able to sustain max power for a short amount of time, but they wouldn't be able get around it by having multiples of the same modules. Rail spam from hills would cut into more than Ammo, there could even be capacitor neutralizing dropship weapons, bringing ewar to vehicle combat.
I know we just had a vehicle rework, but I always figured there would be another one when they introduced the other races vehicles. I know it's been brought up before, just thought I'd bring it up again.
Where is my Gallente sidearm? 1.8? When is that? SoonGäó514
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