Or yoh could throw a locus and kill the people immediately

Good post, but wrong section. It should be in the ideas, portion of the forums

What stops you from setting up a few nanohives with Caldari Logis and spamming them in doorways permanently to block off an objective completely?

What stops you from setting up a few nanohives with Caldari Logis and spamming them in doorways permanently to block off an objective completely?

My fellow MAG raven! Hello! And to be honest, what stops people from spamming grenades in general? Fun factor. Back in 1.6 ambush, the grenade spam was common. I didn't have many problems with it, because I'd just just throw another grenade back at him... of course, it wouldn't do anything because I normally run AV grenades

I appreciate the creativity, but I don't see the point when we have 1-hit-kill locus grenades. Would be more interesting if it was a flashbang, disabled weapons temporarily, slowed down infantry/vehicles hit, or had some other effect besides just doing damage.

In other words incendiary grenade
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Burn Baby Burn

I appreciate the creativity, but I don't see the point when we have 1-hit-kill locus grenades. Would be more interesting if it was a flashbang, disabled weapons temporarily, slowed down infantry/vehicles hit, or had some other effect besides just doing damage.

pretty much but instead of constant damage of the same value that keeps hurt you for a short time after your outside the area of effect it would have a rising damage that contained inside a limited area.
but a incendiary grenade would probably do plasma damage like the AR and be gallente base since fire alone wouldn't damage a dropsuit but plasma would burn like hell

adds more variety too the game
different kind of damage
locus aren't ohk
adds new game mechanics and strategies
why not add a flash bang and laser grenade? This game can have endless weapon varieties not just well this gets the job done so no need for something new like every other fps

The point is Area Denial. To delay the enemy while reinforcements arrive.

Variety is superficial without different roles.
A locus grenade will one-hit-kill in the right distance, and with the right tier.
What you propose does not add any new strategies, it would just the same strategies already existing for locus grenades.
As for a different kind of damage, we already have an anti-shield grenade (flux).

I don't think you understand how lasers work, it actually seems like a lot of people have failed 2nd-3rd grade science on these forums with ideas like 'laser shotgun' and 'laser grenade'... So let me simplify this for you - you have just stated that you want to throw 'high powered' light bulbs at people.

I don't think you understand how lasers work, it actually seems like a lot of people have failed 2nd-3rd grade science on these forums with ideas like 'laser shotgun' and 'laser grenade'... So let me simplify this for you - you have just stated that you want to throw 'high powered' light bulbs at people.

I like the idea and implementation. I only have a problem with the Laser bit. What you describe would be better as a Plasma based weapon. A laser is focused beam of light, while a sphere of light is the opposite of a focused beam.

What if the grenade was like the bouncing betties in borderlands 2. It can be a grenade that sprays lasers everywhere.

Amarr laser grenade
timed grenade i little bit longer then locus grenades

when it goes off it makes an aoe sphere like a nanohive thats bigger the higher the level

enemies inside the sphere take laser damage

the damage would increase the longer the sphere is active

the higher the grenade level the longer it would last

works best to keep enemies away from an area for short periods of time or getting enemies out of cover or held down locations better then a locus grenade would but is more suited for confided areas rather then open ones

instead of higher damage per level they'd all have the same base damage but since the damage increases the longer the grenade is activated (much like the laser rifle) it would have its peak damage right before it goes out making the longer lasting grenades more power

only two can be active at a time and the carry limit is 2 as well

standard
5m sphere
sphere last 5 seconds

advance
6m sphere
sphere last 6 seconds

proto
7m sphere
sphere last 7 seconds

first off you can't use modern science when talking about a fictional place in the FAR future because modern science to them would be so outdated that what is a true us is a false ancient belief to them. like how in the past ppl thought the earth was the center of the universe but if you think that nowadays your an idiot. so can't say what they can make lasers do in the future. i mean really now there was no such thing as lasers a few hundred years ago and touch screens were sci-fi when our parents were kids now there more common then a push mower.

The reason amarr use lasers is because they're reliable - no moving parts, no jams, all you need to do is keep them charged, but the amarr don't have such a hardon for lasers that they think everything should be one. High powered lightbulbs don't work as grenades.

If a laser is powerful enough to damage something, then splitting it divides that power, right? You know how splitters and prisms work I assume? I mean, you can buy them right now, outside of sci-fi.

How do you imagine most people figure shotguns work? Take multiple projectiles that individually have less damage than a single one (pellets vs. slugs for example), but present advantages by giving a "spread" of fire. There's also an advantage at close range where all the projectiles can hit simultaneously. Sounds like the average video game shotgun, right?

Take that principle and apply to a laser. You house a powerful laser that can't fire as fast a scrambler in a gun. You rig splitters to scatter the beam. You've split a big laser into little lasers with a fraction of the energy.

How does this work in a game? Instead of 1 beam, you have several beams. Each does less damage than a single beam? Does that sound like a regular shotgun? It kinda DOES!

Even if it didn't, we don't play sci-fi video games to glom onto reality.

On the subject of not understanding science, here's a catalog describing use of splitters and how you might split a 100 watt laser beam into 2 50 watt beams for special cutting applications. I wonder what they could do with much stronger lasers!!

they are similar but i've never seen yours before. well i have now since you posted that link

Mina knows about people that failed 2nd grade science because she failed it too I guess.

av grenades trick me everytime making me look dumb running from something that won't hurt me

What stops you from setting up a few nanohives with Caldari Logis and spamming them in doorways permanently to block off an objective completely?