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Orbital Bombardment

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Nexus Day
Lustrevik Trade and Travel Bureau
#41 - 2013-01-09 02:13:10 UTC
I want to treat them to a show of fireworks and snowballs. Then I want to rain torpedoes on their worthless heads.
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#42 - 2013-01-09 02:16:50 UTC
Jamyl Khanid wrote:
Missile Bombardment mechanics are already in game.

Moon probing could act as the template.

Shot the Missile and wait for a mail 5 or 10 minutes later saying you missed the target but took out an orphanage in a near by town.


Moon Probing should never act as the template for anything.

Well, it might be a good template for a torture device, but I think War Crimes are against the EULA.

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths." -Abrazzar "the risk of having your day ruined by other people is the cornerstone with which EVE was built" -CCP Solomon
Zol Interbottom
Blimp Requisition Services
#43 - 2013-01-09 03:16:17 UTC
Altrue wrote:
I think it's the right time to bring this video back :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pg1dzAvL2M

What is it ? Where does it comes from ? Why CCP never talked about it ? It's been posted 6 years ago ! :D


suddenly flying into the atmosphere in titans parting the seas so dust bunnies can cross and escape from their slavemaster hordes

Istvaan Shogaatsu wrote:
I demand the ability to use obscure market items as well as plain ol' ammunition to conduct orbital bombardment. Drop a bunch of livestock on someone, maybe.


i have a few thousand exotic dancers left over from Christmas, imagine it, thousands of exotic dancers dropping into a planet at incredible speed

"If you're quitting for the 3rd time you clearly ain't quitting" - Chribba
stoicfaux
#44 - 2013-01-09 03:39:09 UTC
Octoven wrote:
I am just curios, why have missiles been omitted from the orbital bombardment ammo? I know guns are more instant but come on every other weapon type is represented.

Lasers
Hybrids
Projectiles

The only one that is being ignored here is missiles and Id like to know why, I mean a missile strike from orbit isn't that insane an idea.


Screw missiles. I want planet bumping.

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#45 - 2013-01-09 05:21:00 UTC
Probably something to do with Velocity and distance. No point in firing a volley of missiles to bombard a planet well after the battle has ended and everyone has moved on.

They could have a projected missile though. A triple stage idea, where the first round travels out very quickly, then separates and fires a second stage into atmosphere, which then separates and launches a 3rd stage at the target area in the form of 9 gravity assisted projectiles or something.

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Coffee Leingod
Rockscaping Services
#46 - 2013-01-09 06:26:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Coffee Leingod
Mars Theran wrote:
Probably something to do with Velocity and distance. No point in firing a volley of missiles to bombard a planet well after the battle has ended and everyone has moved on.

They could have a projected missile though. A triple stage idea, where the first round travels out very quickly, then separates and fires a second stage into atmosphere, which then separates and launches a 3rd stage at the target area in the form of 9 gravity assisted projectiles or something.



Warp drive missiles or jump drive smart bombs Twisted

A dozen of missiles flying at 18au/s would surely make some huge craters don't you think? Twisted
Beta Miner
COBRA Logistics
#47 - 2013-01-09 06:50:19 UTC
Octoven wrote:
We don't require some stupid clearance code to engage a player in eve. If there are two parties fighting each other, you can fly up and shoot whoever the hell you want without them giving you permission. Hell you can even shoot both parties. I want that level of freedom with DUST too, as I understand it they can shootback with anti-space weapons. Let's have some good ol orbit-ground wafare instead of just arial assault support.


I like the idea of just warping in and carpet bombing everything, the enemies PI infrastructure and everything else... if i want to take it intact, i'll send in mercs. Otherwise, it would be much more satisfying to fit a bomblauncher and do the job myself in a SB; Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

AFK Cloaking? An afk cloaker has never ganked me. In fact a cloaker at his keybourd has never ganked me either.
Grey Azorria
Federation Industries
#48 - 2013-01-09 06:54:57 UTC
Octoven wrote:
RubyPorto wrote:
I vote Orbital Bombardmant Leviathan.

At least it'll be useful for one thing other than Bridging. 'Course, I'm not sure how much fun it'll be for the DUST Bunnies to suddenly be playing on a flat sheet of glass.


Please don't give CCP another reason to nerf Titans again. They are already **** as it stands, may as well just chop them from the game.

I also agree on the whole fire at will stance. I want to have the ability to randomly fly up to a planet and bomb the hell out of it without some stupid command codes. Why? Because EVE is a sandbox and in a sandbox you would be able to do pretty much any action. If they think they can take my destroyer out with their planet side doomsday beam...go for it!

We don't require some stupid clearance code to engage a player in eve. If there are two parties fighting each other, you can fly up and shoot whoever the hell you want without them giving you permission. Hell you can even shoot both parties. I want that level of freedom with DUST too, as I understand it they can shootback with anti-space weapons. Let's have some good ol orbit-ground wafare instead of just arial assault support.

Yes lets grief all the dust players out of the game before it even launches, seems like a good plan...

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Sometimes when I post, I look at my sig and wish that I'd follow my own god damned advice.
Beta Miner
COBRA Logistics
#49 - 2013-01-09 07:02:30 UTC
Grey Azorria wrote:

Yes lets grief all the dust players out of the game before it even launches, seems like a good plan...


Why not, it happens to eve newbies all the time. [/sarcasm]

AFK Cloaking? An afk cloaker has never ganked me. In fact a cloaker at his keybourd has never ganked me either.
Super spikinator
Hegemonous Conscripts
#50 - 2013-01-09 07:28:15 UTC
Vincent R'lyeh wrote:
Sergeant Acht Scultz wrote:
Vincent R'lyeh wrote:
Mizzile trails are too awesome for dust bunnies to experience.....



Given the distance I will not even try to use torps, neither cruise missiles Lol too expensive for rabbits.


To be honest I want to do strafing runs in my Rifter!

Possibly whilst waving a blast pistol out of the cockpit (ok small convenient hatch in my pod) whilst yelling 'Yeah yeah Get some, c'mon, WOOOOO!!!!!)


Fly me closer! I want to swat it with my pistol!
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#51 - 2013-01-09 11:17:54 UTC
Vincent R'lyeh wrote:
Sergeant Acht Scultz wrote:
Vincent R'lyeh wrote:
Mizzile trails are too awesome for dust bunnies to experience.....



Given the distance I will not even try to use torps, neither cruise missiles Lol too expensive for rabbits.


To be honest I want to do strafing runs in my Rifter!

Possibly whilst waving a blast pistol out of the cockpit (ok small convenient hatch in my pod) whilst yelling 'Yeah yeah Get some, c'mon, WOOOOO!!!!!)


But but.... Your Rifter ist still huge! 60metres and more and more... O_O

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.
Fulgin Jet
Independent Trade and Exploration Corporation
#52 - 2013-01-09 11:24:32 UTC
Vinnie's is only small...but the things he can do with it ! P
Seleia O'Sinnor
Drop of Honey
#53 - 2013-01-09 12:36:41 UTC
I want the catapult hi slot module to hurl Livestock at planetary surfaces.

Odyssey: Repacking in POS hangars for modules +1,  but please for other stuff too, especially containers. Make containers openable in POS hangars.
Aria Ta'Rohk
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#54 - 2013-01-09 12:51:53 UTC
Can we shine laser painters down to scare the living crap out of them? How about ECM them so their guns don't work and listen to 12 year old kids raging in comms Lol

I'll take 2 carebears to go, with extra tears
ChromeStriker
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#55 - 2013-01-09 12:53:55 UTC
Fly me closer so i can hit them with my sword!!!

I want to warp a titan into orbit and kill the bunnies with the sudden seismic shift of earthquakes, and tsunamis.

Or projected ecm, so they all have to beat each other with sticks lol

No Worries
TharOkha
0asis Group
#56 - 2013-01-09 14:25:56 UTC
Can we suicide gank those bunnies?

CODE. Venture hunt contest in a nutshell
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#57 - 2013-01-09 15:06:13 UTC
I predict big problems with the start of DUST.
There are simply too much bored capsuleers that have been waiting for ages to carpet bomb planets into the stoneage and too few dustbunnies.
There will be ten times as much ships bombarding the planets as there will be Dust bunnies, every planet will turn into instant totalhelldeath and every dustbunnie will die instantly when he sets foot on a planet.
Heed my words...

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Ginger Barbarella
#58 - 2013-01-09 15:10:40 UTC
Zimmy Zeta wrote:
I predict big problems with the start of DUST.
There are simply too much bored capsuleers that have been waiting for ages to carpet bomb planets into the stoneage and too few dustbunnies.
There will be ten times as much ships bombarding the planets as there will be Dust bunnies, every planet will turn into instant totalhelldeath and every dustbunnie will die instantly when he sets foot on a planet.
Heed my words...


It won't be an issue. I doubt CCP will let the two worlds interact on the level that we (capsuleers) want them to, simply because Air Power wins. From orbit we would be able to devastate any DUSTbunnies, and CCP is conveniently leaving out the mechanic of getting the DUSTbunnies to the planet in the first place. Plenty of us (myself included) drool at the REAL possibility of nuking troup carrier ships in orbit or in transit, but that just isn't possible that they'll allow us to do it.

Mechanics will be put/kept in place to prevent us from doing anything we're talking about in this thread.

"Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#59 - 2013-01-09 15:12:39 UTC
People expecting to be able to just rock up to a planet, shoot a few rounds at it to sterilise a game being played by 30 or 60 DUST players with no way to anticipate or retaliate, and then trololol away into the sunset are going to be tragically disappointed.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#60 - 2013-01-09 15:24:01 UTC
Malcanis wrote:
People expecting to be able to just rock up to a planet, shoot a few rounds at it to sterilise a game being played by 30 or 60 DUST players with no way to anticipate or retaliate, and then trololol away into the sunset are going to be tragically disappointed.


I am tragically disappointed.

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.