Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Yes. Nothing could go wrong with allowing any battleship to drop in and do the same DPS as an entire wing of bombers, with no penalties. Nothing could go wrong when two hundred of them appear on the jita undock either.

You are bad at this forum.

You know what I mean >__>

Interesting Ideas

However most of them are probably a non-starter

I can see Scripts working similar to Scan Res Scripts, increase the range but at the same time decrease the damage, or the reverse.

Dual Damage Faction items, also sounds interesting.

Ok, I'll initially take this as though it were a serious suggestion.

Smart bombs do a bit of damage to everything except your ship as they project force away from the originating ship. They don't do much though.

Bombs explode.

If you used bombs as ammo for smart bombs they would really have to act like bomb launchers with a zero delay time.

Therefore, your ship should take the brunt of the damage. ie, your ship should take max damage as though you had a bomb fired right at you.

If this were to be the case I wouldn't have a problem with it. That said, it would make your bomb using smart-bombs all but useless meaning that the time CCP put into developing the concept would be wasted time.

As some have already said, this isn't such a splendid idea.

I would like "smart" smartbombs, ones that can avoid damaging friendly targets (ie, they somehow weaken the pulse radiated in the direction of such ships).

Load with scripts:
Carebear script: only damages reds (safe to use in high sec, but can't suicide gank with this setting) - ie flashy red players and hostile NPCs, doesn't destroy wrecks
"limited" script: Only damges things that concord won't attack you for (ie yellows and red in high sec, anything in low sec) - doesn't destroy wrecks belonging to you.
"Fleet" script: Fleet members and your own drones take no damage

Unscripted: damages everything, as it does now.

When I was a major noob, doing the SOE epic arc, for the burning down the hive mission, after getting killed the first time, I recruited some help.

Some guy in a hurricane came to help me (turns out, he was still a noob too), he fitted smartbombs, he warned me to keep my distance, got the drone aggro, and lit them off. He got concorded

I think the wrecks were registered as belonging to me, and when his smartbombs destroyed them

Of course, I could see the limited and fleet script being a bit OPd.

You could get a bunch of BSs grouped around a gate, just perma-bombing it. Near insta death to anyone that comes through.

Although it would make for some potntial small gang BS doctrines, where those with utlity highs fit smartbombs, and they fly together with overlapping smartbomb radii - such a group would be relatively immune to scrams.

Actually that might be OPd- everything in scram range dies, so they can always MJD...

Meh, it might be interesting.

This sounds like a good idea. Some variation in using smartbombs in the game. That's fun killing

I read the first few comments and the OP and you people made me laugh :D But I really need to get off the forums so stop being funny, thanks...

Just have bombs follow the inverse square law when they do damage.

Put in a long range script and you get more range, but your damage falls off into negligible amounts quicker, even drones can tank you.
Put in a short range script and you get incredibly reduced range (500-1000m), but you concentrate the damage amount in a smaller area.

It solves like 90% of the problems smartbombs regularly face, allows them to use scripts like OP obviously wants, and doesn't break mechanics. Honestly they should have done this years ago, but I guess it was just easier programming wise not to.

Genius tip: If you want dual damage use 2 bombs with different damages.

I have removed a personal attack from this thread.