This would allow snipers to find creative perches
...So? What do you think?? Feel free to add your own suggestions to this as well

This idea sounds like I would keep redlining myself out of the battlezone and end up suiciding all the time. Or knowing my luck I would get hit by a dropship as I flew through the air.

+1 Though

I support this idea.

Although I'd love to see it implemented as a minmatarrian device. Maybe a catapult or a giant rubber band. ;)

I'd suggest this equipment be established as a Minmatar deployable device to "compete" against the Amarr Drop Uplink. Upon deployment, the operator sets the trajectory and angle using the interface provided by OP. This way the "Inertial Capacitor" is set up and can be used by anyone on the team. Drop uplinks allow clones to insert tactically using warp technology, while "Inertial Capacitors" allow clones to move across the field rapidly and incredibly recklessly.

Personnel simply walk up to the device, hold the "interact" button/key to charge the potential energy/inertia until it reaches maximum then it flings them in the established destination. However this equipment only has a certain amount of charges depending on its meta level and ceases to function once all charges have been depleted.

In reverse engineering Amarrian warp technologies, Minmatar engineers developed a method of creating a miniature tear in the continuum that allows instantaneous acceleration by eliminating the time lapse and distance traveled to reach top speeds. This provides a rapid means of traversing terrain by launching personnel through the atmosphere, albeit recklessly.

For example, you want to reach a top speed, but in order to reach that speed, one needs to accelerate over a certain distance and for a certain period of time. By travelling through a rift in the time/space continuum, you can travel that distance and time in a relative instant.

I'd suggest this equipment be established as a Minmatar deployable device to "compete" against the Amarr Drop Uplink. Upon deployment, the operator sets the trajectory and angle using the interface provided by OP. This way the "Inertial Capacitor" is set up and can be used by anyone on the team. Drop uplinks allow clones to insert tactically using warp technology, while "Inertial Capacitors" allow clones to move across the field rapidly and incredibly recklessly.

Personnel simply walk up to the device, hold the "interact" button/key to charge the potential energy/inertia until it reaches maximum then it flings them in the established destination. However this equipment only has a certain amount of charges depending on its meta level and ceases to function once all charges have been depleted.

In reverse engineering Amarrian warp technologies, Minmatar engineers developed a method of creating a miniature tear in the continuum that allows instantaneous acceleration by eliminating the time lapse and distance traveled to reach top speeds. This provides a rapid means of traversing terrain by launching personnel through the atmosphere, albeit recklessly.

For example, you want to reach a top speed, but in order to reach that speed, one needs to accelerate over a certain distance and for a certain period of time. By travelling through a rift in the time/space continuum, you can travel that distance and time in a relative instant.

Further details:

I whipped up a picture of what this device looked like when I was first picturing it (though it could look like all kinds of things and still work fine)

http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/89187i0AA384D1A8931EE4/image-size/original/is-moderation-mode/true?px=-1&v=mpbl-1

This is what it could look like in first person view. The center ring would spin rapidly as you charge it up, pouring glowing streams of energy into a plasma-like ball of sci-fy energy that grows bigger with time until it is fully charged. Then when the device is fired it would unleash a small explosion of inertia-dampener-like energy, somehow manipulating or altering the laws of physics and even space itself for a brief moment that sends the user hurtling through the air in the direction the device was aimed.



Edit on 9-23-13:
"Ti Joad" suggested the great sci-fy explanation I was looking for. I still picture it looking the same, but this sounds much better

"In reverse engineering Amarrian warp technologies, Minmatar engineers developed a method of creating a miniature tear in the continuum that allows instantaneous acceleration by eliminating the time lapse and distance traveled to reach top speeds. This provides a rapid means of traversing terrain by launching personnel through the atmosphere, albeit recklessly.

For example, you want to reach a top speed, but in order to reach that speed, one needs to accelerate over a certain distance and for a certain period of time. By travelling through a rift in the time/space continuum, you can travel that distance and time in a relative instant."

Hey guys,

My idea for a future equipment type, the "Inertial Capacitor", would be a tacticians best friend. Essentially the exact opposite of the Inertia Dampener, the Inertial Capacitor would use similar technology to create an momentary inter-spacial disturbance that would fling its user at high speed in whatever direction it is pointed.

Essentially you would take out the device, hold down R1 until it is charged, and then when you release the button there would be a small burst of blue energy that fires to towards your reticle. This would allow snipers to find creative perches, blitzers to close the distance between them and their target, and infiltrators to leap fortress walls. This could of course be balanced by adjusting stats such as cost, range, charge time, cool-down time, resource requirements, etc. as to avoid making it overpowered.

...So? What do you think?? Feel free to add your own suggestions to this as well

How could the Minmatar develop any kind of "reliable" technology?

It can be balanced by requiring the inertia dampner to survive the reentry that way if you drop right in front of someone you have a few seconds of the inertia recovery animation to get wasted, hopefully will disallow massive blitz drops by attackers and give defenders a counter

But then this idea will almost completely change the method of pace setting in this game, might make it too hectic. i for one would like a slower paced dust which would allow more tactical approaches to engagements

Necromancing much?

Oh who am I to judge? We're probably better off necroing threads rather than posting repeat threads.

I have thought about this topic so many times...every time I drop from the mcc I wish I could fling myself to the perfect snipe point and get business. ..bravo my good man...bravo!

Hey guys,

My idea for a future equipment type, the "Inertial Capacitor", would be a tacticians best friend. Essentially the exact opposite of the Inertia Dampener, the Inertial Capacitor would use similar technology to create an momentary inter-spacial disturbance that would fling its user at high speed in whatever direction it is pointed.

Essentially you would take out the device, hold down R1 until it is charged, and then when you release the button there would be a small burst of blue energy that fires to towards your reticle. This would allow snipers to find creative perches, blitzers to close the distance between them and their target, and infiltrators to leap fortress walls. This could of course be balanced by adjusting stats such as cost, range, charge time, cool-down time, resource requirements, etc. as to avoid making it overpowered.

...So? What do you think?? Feel free to add your own suggestions to this as well

Yes but it should be impossible to shoot or throw grenades or do anything else during the jump.