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Dagger-Two
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Posted - 2013.05.05 22:10:00 -
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Just wait for battleship-sized weapons doing orbital strikes. |
Dagger-Two
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Posted - 2013.05.06 00:05:00 -
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Ulysses Knapse wrote:Dagger-Two wrote:Just wait for battleship-sized weapons doing orbital strikes. Not even capital-class turrets fire the equivalent of nukes. The closest thing is probably a doomsday weapon from a Titan.
You...you're joking, right?
We CURRENTLY have artilley-fired nuclear shells, like the W33 203mm shell. It has a yeild of 40 kilotons. The largest frigate sized autocannon in EVE is 200mm, and there is nuclear ammo available for it. The goddamn thing fires BURSTS of these shells.
Or the real-life 280mm nuclear howitzer. That was an earlier model though, and only had a 15kt blast. There is also a 280mm frigate sized artilley piece.
Now take those concepts and add extremely futuristic technology.
Hell, in EVE lore it's stated that a battleship's 425mm railguns firing antimatter canisters could wipe out a small city in a single volley.
Capital weaponry, you're looking at things like the dual 1000mm railguns, or 3500mm QUAD artilley. Imagine a futuristic nuke in a 3.5m wide shell. 100 megaton yeild? 200? more? Hard to say, but far more destructive than anything we can presently imagine.
I don't know where you get your extremely flawed info from, but you should refrain from posting about things you have no knowledge about.
And also, the last time a doomsday weapon was activated in a planets atmosphere, it ENDED life on the planet. |
Dagger-Two
Villore Joint Task Force
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Posted - 2013.05.06 02:48:00 -
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Yeah, because the titan's reactors detonated in space, and only the front 7km section fell to the planet, a 7km section that weighed considerably less than, say, a 7km meteorite because it was a ship filled with empty space. (Ships aren't solid hunks of metal, you know).
If the entire thing had fallen, and the reactors had exploded in atmosphere, they specifically stated it would have been an extinction-level event.
I think you have some serious misconceptions about large things crashing into planets.
And what does balance have to do with any of this? |
Dagger-Two
Villore Joint Task Force
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Posted - 2013.05.06 05:06:00 -
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@ Herrick
Oh I agree, there are certain issues with having that kind of destructive power in Dust, but that's not what we were arguing about :P
We were talking about the destructive power of starship weaponry in EVE, and how flawed his understanding of it was.
I found another great example of it. In Templar One, a Revelation dreadnought fires its capital-sized beam laser at the planet for a one-second sweep as it flies above a Minmatar base. The beam itself is focused to 15m wide.
The beam leaves a trench almost 200m wide, and the heat and blast wave severely damage objects and kills people over two kilometers away. A SINGLE BEAM, a laser of all things, a focused beam of light from an Amarrian capital laser has this kind of destructive power. It's pretty ridiculous to say that the closest thing to a nuclear weapon in eve is a titan's superweapon. |
Dagger-Two
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Posted - 2013.05.06 15:35:00 -
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Bren Butchman wrote:Dagger-Two wrote:closest thing to a nuclear weapon in eve is a titan's superweapon. Actually, it isn't. A capital-class weapon in eve is already equivalent to a nuke. A dreadnought-class ship can kill another dreadnought-class ship (in eve) after firing at it for quite some time; on the other hand, a doomsday-class weapon mounted on a titan can (and usually do) one shoot a dreadnought-class ship. In regard to what it may be a real-life (much smaller) cousin of the discharge of a doomsday-class weapon on a planet, try to read this wikepedia article
Wow, you didn't read ANY of the rest of that post did you, or the previous ones. Hell it looks like you barely read that one sentence. Read the whole thing before taking a few words out of context and making a fool of yourself |
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