EVE General Discussion

More brainfarting.

Make dreads the "nuke it from orbit", ala kills everything friend/foe alike, but takes a long time to spool up and while it is, the opposing team has a chance to stop it with ground-space weapon.

Give people their chance at proper NUKING!!!! but make it RISKY.

more like Doomsday = supper-heat atmosphere and alter planets orbit.

but if i remember right there is something in the lore about titan navigation computers avoiding low orbit over planets due to their massive size causing weird tidal patterns and killing the locals.

That is a good idea if i am understanding it correctly. The dusties only deploy the targeting beacon, in the end, the dust players decide what to fire. Now some parts this could get nasty. They call tactical strike, get the nuke from orbit. The target caller perhaps has warning of incoming. The guns have a spool up delay, much like armor rep. When the spoolup gets cycled on, the person calling target gets the confirmation of incoming _____ so if a nuke from orbit is coming, they got a 15 second of oh sh*t run. Much like how the trailers show the sky glowing, each weapon could have different effects too.

Missile function, already said, guided, the nukes maybe see coming through the clouds as counter times down close range variant such as torpedoes would have placed targets. Guided missiles would stream.

Hybrids: Multifire pulsed. High damage, low impact area, see the glow forming? Rails are precise, blasters not so much, but more damage if they hit. (deviation of shots in other words for precision)

Projectile: low damage impacts, wide area. Hear the shells coming in. BoomBoomBoom, zzzeeeewwwww.... for the artilleries. Autocannons, well that is the rain of fire.

Lasers: The novel describes how lasers burned across the ground. So the beams should form series of burned paths. Doomsday of course the swath of destruction. Pulses being more like the video, and of course much more effective vs shields since they are lasers.

Continuing with the theme, this allows more selection of what type of fire to bring. It makes more sense that high damage precise weapons be more effective vs vehicles. If somebody needs that heavy triage supported tank group brought down, don't want autocannon firestorm, you want the sniping of the rails. Versa, you want the AoE effective stuff to run antipersonnel.

I am no programmer, no idea if any of this is possible, but the level of co-operation between fleet and ground would be amazing. Ground strikes would require co-ordination with eve players on a bigger scale.

Edit: Such would mean an orbit strike available and request would need to be made. Then a confirm. After that, player would have to designate, green light eve and fire.

So...
1. Bombardment request, PW given
2. Available eve players lock in pw
3. Dust players chooses one of the available ships and the weapon type issues fire pattern (center of attack, laser target, fire path, etc)
4. Eve player fires weapon of choice.

I still think a Launchable Orbital Platform by the dust bunnies as well as other forms of strikes that could be forwarded to somone in the warbarge should be possible.

For example nearby district has a missile silo.
Dust bunnies request a tactical nuke and give the launch codes.
Owner of the Missile silo in a war room approves the request and missile is launched.

I also want a battleview tactically available to anyone that requests it in eve or dust, ground commander give code link and requesting player gets to see a icon version of the map being played out or at least rolling logs of how the battle is progressing. Information delay acceptable.

Right now only battleships are confirmed because it was seen as such in the demo. Vids have dreadnoughts so that is probably a sure thing. If you general train for T1 battleships, should be a good place to start. As release approaches, ccp usually has testing on singularity server, and will want to make sure the actual system interface is working prior to release. When this info is known, any required final training can be done. That is my recommendation.

Here's an idea - deployable ECM jamming projectors from the surface that prevent a surface target from being locked. Flimsy as hell and easily taken out by surface troops, but a middle ground between either the ship or the dusters getting smoked.

Should carrier pilots risk having their stuff shot down? Yes.

Will they lose everything in a single run? Probably not. But this depends on the situation on the ground and the firepower to fend of such attacks.

Should they be pinpoint strikes? Lol. No. Friendly fire, strafing runs, missed shots, total carnage. That sort of thing.

All this while the carrier is in orbit, vulnerable... without its drones for defense.

Regarding Some kind of feed-back from the planets surface,

Dream feedback; Preview like window showing the district and semi detailed display to indicate the same location information that the dust players have access to..... Would make me wet to see the little lights go out after a strike... ( 5-10 second update would still be great )


Realistic feedback; Calculate average isk cost of all items brought into the fight at start, Log it on CCPs end; Count what is lost solely to the strike and display it as a value in real time; Perhaps with a log.

IMO

One thing that will forever haunt me: the ground is a lot more than 250km away! How does it shoot that far!?

But infantry have too small a sig radius to take much damage from fighter bombers.