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Kani Prost
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-03-09 00:50:05 UTC
hey all

just wandering if a CIWS type system was ever thought of in the game .... im interested to know

i.e. .... pesky frigate ..... un-target main guns (pre-req) ..... target peskies ..... hit the CIWS icon - high slot ..... POP ...... re-acquire previous target ... open up main guns

/regards


disclamer - yeah it could be a stoopid idea
Jesus Rambo
Criterion.
Minmatar Fleet Alliance
#2 - 2012-03-09 01:19:07 UTC
Well you could just fit smaller guns. You can put frig size guns on a battleship, if you REALLY hate frigates that much.

There are also FoF missiles, but... *shudder*
Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
#3 - 2012-03-09 01:24:26 UTC
Jesus Rambo wrote:
Well you could just fit smaller guns. You can put frig size guns on a battleship, if you REALLY hate frigates that much.


If you want to suck and die, maybe.

Anyway, yes, it's been proposed many times in the past, and rejected for game balance reasons. Realism-wise it's incredibly stupid that a battleship has no point defense weapons. Given the size differences between small and large guns it would be a trivial engineering problem to arm a battleship with enough small guns to instantly kill any frigate without any noticeable sacrifice in large gun firepower (just like every real-world battleship). However, this would absolutely destroy game balance, since there would be little or no reason to bring anything other than the biggest possible ship you can fly.
Daneel Trevize
Give my 11percent back
#4 - 2012-03-09 01:46:44 UTC
Drones, (heavy) neuts, more mids for tackle, the good ship friendship.
Unimaginative Guy
Dutch Squad
#5 - 2012-03-10 03:17:31 UTC
Eve would require a huge-ass rebalance of the entire core mechanics of the game for that to work. Although having some beastly super gun maelstrom with guns all over it shooting crap in a blazing fury while tanking 85 cruisers 100f rigs and 2 battleships sounds damn awsome...it would break the game lol
Skorpynekomimi
#6 - 2012-03-10 04:43:50 UTC
Defender missiles.
Otherwise, you don't have CIWS for two reasons:
#1: To give smaller ships a chance against big ships.
#2: It'd only work against missiles.
Now, maybe if they were FRICKEN LAZER BEAMS, it'd be effective against projectiles, but not lasers and hybrids.

Generally, I feel that CIWS was replaced with shields and drones. Small ships like frigs can be handled with drones, especially in fleets.

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Kusum Fawn
Perkone
Caldari State
#7 - 2012-03-10 05:45:18 UTC
smartbombs?

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Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#8 - 2012-03-10 07:20:08 UTC
neuts, webs, smartbombs, drones. All of these really mess with a frig.

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Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#9 - 2012-03-10 10:41:19 UTC
Kani Prost wrote:
hey all

just wandering if a CIWS type system was ever thought of in the game .... im interested to know

i.e. .... pesky frigate ..... un-target main guns (pre-req) ..... target peskies ..... hit the CIWS icon - high slot ..... POP ...... re-acquire previous target ... open up main guns

/regards


disclamer - yeah it could be a stoopid idea



Here's a thought:



No

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