Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Oh you mean the Doomsday device???

So you just agreed with him, and you are sorry? (bold mine)

Just had a thought, since our ships can fly through stars (close your eyes), wouldn't plasma not do much?

I wouldn't do a always on plasma stream I don't think the game.could take it. I was thinking either a real fast rof so it seems.more like a stream. Or my fav would be a turret that when activated last 3-5 seconds and did damage over that time time period

So it would shoot and last for 5 seconds and hit maby like 3 times in that 5 seconds.
Opens the field for mods to increase the time it last or how much it hits within given time.

He said that there is nothing in the real world that uses "magnetically contained ball of subatomic particles" and I said that There is and i gave an example...

got it?

+1 for plasma based weapons!

I mean ... the Blood Raiders need *something* special for their ships...

I like the idea of a plasma weapon but agree with the folks that suggest there area already turrets of a similar concept.

That being said...what about some sort of plasma bomb or AoE object? Or maybe plasma missile or torpedo that when detonated does splash AoE damage?

Would be useful against frig and drone swarms. The danger with AoE though is that High Sec use will be limited.

Such turrets aren´t really needed, are they? And if what faction should use them.

Beside plasma don´t need to be hot, they are more highly charged phase of matter. Like solid is the phase with a lot interactions and a gas is a phase with nearly no interaction, plasmas are normally charged gases. So their main damage should be EM. The only thing plasma has to do with thermal is, that heat is easiest and natural way of producing a plasma, cause the atoms (any interactions needed for molecules are already destroyed) are moving fast enough to charge each other.
But EM is already the main damage of lasers. If you just want to have a turret which deals primary thermal damage, you should get onother idea, beside Thermal is already secondary damage of nearly all turrets.

Idea: Short range: space flamethrower (much less range then AC and fall-off is as high as the optimal range, but higher DPS, ROF, bigger ammo storage and tracking)
Long range: space flare thrower (the same abiliteis like a pulse laser, but uses ammo instead of cap)

What about a plasma field weapon, like a smart bomb?

Make it thermal damage, double the range of normal smart bombs in exchange for half the typical damage.
(The ship module sprays out a cloud of plasma particles and simply ignites them. A buffer field around the ship keeps it from toasting itself along with the others)

Possibly a sustained field around the ship, draining fuel each cycle.

(A new kind of heavy dictor inspired cruiser: Nova class cruisers could have this weak artificial star around them so long as they had fuel to keep it going)

Hostile little fella, I know I know you're pixel can kill my pixels yaah for you.
If this game had no ideas witch ppl thought were cool it wouldn't have a players.

I do like the idea of a aoe weapon. And a particle stream would.kinda be.flame thrower. But.it would.just be plasma.


Edit: and no I never said my idea was brilliant, if you do read the original post I believe I did mention that is was mainly for fun.