What war barge? EVE did away with most npc crap early on, DUST should too. OBs should be from player ships only, not a made up war barge. Or does it come from an invisible pink unicorn shooting rainbows out its butt? With that said OBs should totally be multicolored and touched up with some sparkles and glitter. Hell, rain down some pixies while your at it. They'll magically heal all troops on the battlefield.

What war barge? EVE did away with most npc crap early on, DUST should too. OBs should be from player ships only, not a made up war barge. Or does it come from an invisible pink unicorn shooting rainbows out its butt? With that said OBs should totally be multicolored and touched up with some sparkles and glitter. Hell, rain down some pixies while your at it. They'll magically heal all troops on the battlefield.

Orbital strikes are one of the best parts of this game... When you hear the trumpet sound and see the beams start spinning it either gives you a feeling of "oh **** run" or "YEAH GET'EM!!" Perfect in my opinion... Shouldn't have time to run from them they would be pointless a squad with 2500 wp is deserving of the power to take out AT LEAST a expensive tank with an orbital... just my opinion though.

We're still in beta, and most EVE players are dubious as to what possible reason they should give a crap about supporting us, so the standard OB is a placeholder mechanic. Once we start getting regular orbital support, the OBs will be even more nightmarish, because EVE warship guns hit harder than the NPC warbarge guns.

A LOT harder.

What war barge? EVE did away with most npc crap early on, DUST should too. OBs should be from player ships only, not a made up war barge. Or does it come from an invisible pink unicorn shooting rainbows out its butt? With that said OBs should totally be multicolored and touched up with some sparkles and glitter. Hell, rain down some pixies while your at it. They'll magically heal all troops on the battlefield.

I hope in endgame that there will be someone actually piloting the war barge and dropping off soldiers/installations.

Okay, here's a question: Do they exist in new eden space and vulnerable to attack?

Just like the npc ran market in 2003, I believe this system should and will be replaced.

So I want to start a real thread about this. Here are my thoughts from the first topic which was locked indefinitely:



As someone who has lost several well-built tanks to OBs, I don't like being torched by magically placed beams of destruction with imaginary points.

I wouldn't be annoyed if I at least knew the OB came from an EVE ship hanging in orbit 100% of the times I get striked. A little effort and coordination to match what I put into driving tanks.

Right now they seem over used and unrealistic. They literally appear from nowhere, come from nothing, and destroy everything. Gay.

Just wait until they start letting caps OB.

We're talking wiping out divisions of tanks with those.

Shells from an XL gun are larger than some tanks.

Sure....doubt many high sec corps are going to buy their own warbarges. But, if you have pub matches. And there will be pub matches. Who supplies the warbarge for the strikes?

Dust already supports the functions you are insisting are nonexistent.

You need to be participating in corp battles/factional warfair, in witch (to my understanding, corecct me I am wrong) all OB's are player originated.

What you are suggesting isn't ever going to happen in pub matches, so get over it.

Your "real thread" doesn't seem very realistic to me, not even in the slightest.

Well then, lets hope public matches are removed. Right now they're a necessary evil to acquire sufficient sp and isk.

depends on the corp, it doesn't take much to fit a catalyst or another type of destroyer class ship with small guns.

i'm already printing hybrid ammunition for mine. and we had 8 in orbit for a corp battle. shame the enemy corp was a single player and we couldn't earn enough WP to get the ability to use it. we even ignored him and try to let him cap points but he just sat on the red line and sniped.

Except in that case you end up pushing people out of the game that may not be interested in joining a corp or getting into meaningful major fights.

depends on the corp, it doesn't take much to fit a catalyst or another type of destroyer class ship with small guns.

i'm already printing hybrid ammunition for mine. and we had 8 in orbit for a corp battle. shame the enemy corp was a single player and we couldn't earn enough WP to get the ability to use it. we even ignored him and try to let him cap points but he just sat on the red line and sniped.

Except he wants the warbarges player operated. That means manufacturing or buying one. Or having it so the player has access to the npc corps barge, which in the end would make no sense anyways.