Ten-Sidhe
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
454
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Posted - 2013.04.09 03:56:00 -
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Grenades can't be put away, it has to be thrown. Real grenades can have the pin put back in if the handle isn't released yet. If a digital timer is used it could be aborted and reset once cooking is started.
The scope button is unused with grenades. I suggest using this with grenades to pause the cooking, and if scope is held when grenade button is released the grenade timer is reset and grenade stowed to switch back to original weapon.
This would allow for grenade timer skills that are not used now. I don't have any clever skill names unfortunately.
A fast cooking skill could allow the timer to reduce at a multiple of the time it is held, so say 1 second hold cooks two seconds off the grenade timer. This would be very dangerous without ability to stop timer.
A extended timer skill. This would add time to the grenade timer. Not very useful by itself, but with good timing and few ranks of the fast cook skill you could get few grenades to go off at same time. The fast cook skill would be a good prereq skill.
A back up safety fuse skill, this would make the grenade switch to a back up fuse instead of detonating when cooked to zero. This back up fuse would make it a contact +6 seconds, and -1 second off the fuse per level. So at Lv5 it would be impact +2 seconds if thrown after it was cooked to zero. So, if trained to level 5 and grenade is fully cooked it would act like the last version did as standard. The sp need and need to cook should avoid the spam issue. The extended timer skill would be a good prereq skill.
Some more obvious skills, +5%/lv throw distance, +5%/lv blast radius, +2%/level damage(if weaponry doesn't apply already), -5% cpu needed. |
Ten-Sidhe
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
454
|
Posted - 2013.04.09 04:13:00 -
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A U.S. Marine has also made a new design. A lever is turned at top of grenade, then spoon is held down, lever can be turned back while spoon is still held to re-safe the grenade.
Both designs allow putting the grenade away if not needed.
The grenades we have seem to be electronic, cpu is needed for them, so they would be able to have even more options for timing/re-safeing built it. |