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TooMany Names AlreadyTaken
Going for the gold
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Posted - 2015.03.30 22:26:00 -
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Basically a slow, heavily armored DropShip that, instead of shooting missiles, drops bombs on the targets below, sort of like carpet-bombing.
This DS would be harder to turn and harder to "knock-off" to one side by AV fire because of it's mass.
I'm thinking maybe it should be a Minmatar DS? Because of the explosive nature of the Minmatar? If that can't be done, let it be any race's ship...
No passenger seats, 6 bombs (500 damage each, 6m splash radius) per drop and a 30 second reload time for them.
What do you think about this idea?
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Breakin Stuff
Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2015.03.30 22:39:00 -
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hover.
drop 3000 damage to instagib everything below.
move away. repeat.
somehow I'm finding myself unfond of the idea.
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Soldner VonKuechle
SAM-MIK
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2015.03.30 23:45:00 -
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Breakin Stuff wrote:hover.
drop 3000 damage to instagib everything below.
move away. repeat.
somehow I'm finding myself unfond of the idea.
Already do that in my myo-fit calogi.
i would like a bigger slower DS to farm wp off so, sure?
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TooMany Names AlreadyTaken
Going for the gold
1029
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Posted - 2015.03.31 07:45:00 -
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Breakin Stuff wrote:hover.
drop 3000 damage to instagib everything below.
move away. repeat.
somehow I'm finding myself unfond of the idea.
It would be hard to "move away" because of the slow top speed of the ship. If there's lots of AV underneath, you will most likely die.
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Breakin Stuff
Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2015.03.31 09:43:00 -
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TooMany Names AlreadyTaken wrote:Breakin Stuff wrote:hover.
drop 3000 damage to instagib everything below.
move away. repeat.
somehow I'm finding myself unfond of the idea. It would be hard to "move away" because of the slow top speed of the ship. If there's lots of AV underneath, you will most likely die.
If the AV was underneath they are already dead. You might find an amsent who can survive three of the impacts from above. But in order to make this concept more than a sick joke aimed at dropship pilots the blast radius would have to be huge.
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TooMany Names AlreadyTaken
Going for the gold
1029
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Posted - 2015.03.31 11:34:00 -
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Breakin Stuff wrote:TooMany Names AlreadyTaken wrote:Breakin Stuff wrote:hover.
drop 3000 damage to instagib everything below.
move away. repeat.
somehow I'm finding myself unfond of the idea. It would be hard to "move away" because of the slow top speed of the ship. If there's lots of AV underneath, you will most likely die. If the AV was underneath they are already dead. You might find an amsent who can survive three of the impacts from above. But in order to make this concept more than a sick joke aimed at dropship pilots the blast radius would have to be huge.
Sry, I didn't mean directly underneath, just nearby, shooting swarms and forges...
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Breakin Stuff
Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2015.03.31 11:49:00 -
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Problem with arming a dropship like that is a severe need for mobility. If we were using... an atmospheric version of an EVE fighter or fighter bomber?
You get the speed to do a bombing run. The clunky dropship controls will interfere with doing a bombing run In a fashion cocondusive to the dropship success and survival.
The ability to hover and paste people below with mass damage creates it's own problems with AV escalation.
Hell tge LAV being invulnerable to small arms fire did more to cause AV proliferation than any tank ever did.
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Vyzion Eyri
warravens
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Posted - 2015.03.31 12:29:00 -
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Cool idea, we need to get the Minmatar and Amarr vehicles (and turrets) first though. This seems to be more like a different class of aerial vehicles altogether, and you could make them similar to Stealth Bombers in EVE, where each race has a bomber, and the hull gets bonuses to a specific type of bomb (of which there are also 4).
Would be interesting for dislodging roof camps, piles of enemies that aren't prepared for it, or at the very least scattering them. I'd imagine damage would be somewhere between a minor and major warbarge strike, probably closer to the minor. 3000 damage I'm not so sure of, perhaps similar damage as core locus grenades with max skills (for Minmatar), maybe Caldari could have giant flux bombs, Amarr some kinda crazy flashbang laser bomb, Gallente drops strippers direct from Caille to distract the enemy (lol).
Anyway, as I said above, we need racial parity for the vehicle types we already have in-game. I want laser turrets goddamnit, so I can put 3 on an ADS and start my disco PARTAY!
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Takahiro Kashuken
Red Star.
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Posted - 2015.03.31 12:30:00 -
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I would be fine with this idea if the ADS still had some teeth and could take it down but currently AV does the job far better with less SP/ISK required.
With AV in the picture this will not survive unless it has decent fitting slots and EHP to rival if not more than a HAV since there is no cover in the sky.
Without AV in the picture best way to take it down would be a rail HAV and or a DS with gunners or an ADS but i do feel the bomber DS would also need friendly ADS to escort it and protect it from other ADS and rail HAV or possibly a couple of small turrets.
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TooMany Names AlreadyTaken
Going for the gold
1029
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Posted - 2015.03.31 13:20:00 -
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The idea of it being a dropship with bombs is to avoid adding new vehicles (planes) just for this sort of playstyle to be implemented.
If we could have planes, that would be great.
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