EVE General Discussion

Oh I don't know. If modern societies don't intervene in a draconian fashion to stop the obesity trend who know how big people are umpteen thousand years hence?

Why is it people want to insist on using stealth bombers for this?

If anything have the stealth bombers SHOVE orbital bombardiers into the atmosphere.

Be the Goon cat encouraging the Test Cat.

Continuing on.

Special Ammo not special guns. Thought I don't mind seeing a 'siege' module for this requiring fuel time and timing and commitment. Make it so that siege engine is explained that its used to get into orbital bombard range without getting stuck in the gravity well.

Please please please had hot zones and points of no return on all massive stellar objects not just dust 514 planets. Hot zones are spots where your ship starts to burn up and take atmospheric damage. Point of no return is instant ship death and should encompass the entire planet inside the hot zone sphere. That way if you have a dreadnought that miswarped inside a planet, well... Like in most sci-fis you just lost that ship.

Aside from that, I can Imagine Dust 514 Players would be far to busy to point and aim stuff in the sky, so anything on their end has to be either automated or activated from space. Automated systems would make it hard for invaders thus I can see larger ships being required to establish a foot hold. Similar to

As for the districts I would like to see them webbed together in a 'network' of sorts. That way if you decide to glass over an entire district you' are more than likely to screw up everything else you have down there. That way it may be a great way to start an invasion of a planet you own nothing on but a bad idea once you got your foothold.

Also if you send down carrier starwing don't make it a 'one strike and I'm done ordeal. allows the VTOL fighter pilots to actively engage them and destroy them. Fighters would suppress sky assets including harassing the MCC. Bombers would only harass ground targets. Fighters most vulnerable from AA from the ground and bombers vice versa.

Also any counter orbital asset available should be AOE to discourage sending in a fleet to bombard it. Dust 514 players are limited to how much damage they can cause in a single match, Eve should also be limited to a point.

Other kinds of bombardment could be like resupplies. Like a dread could possibly drop off a reinforcement clone vat increases the allies time on the map. A vehicle pay load that may contain generic fit dust 514 vehicles.

I also like the idea of delegating controls Lazy MCC commanders will suffer for it.

Finally, don't restrict what sort of strike the eve pilot decides to use based on dust 514 requests. This makes teamwork and cross talking more important to help direct not only the fire but what kinds of dropable and support the ship in orbit maintains.

Allow eve neutrals to participate in the bombardment via quick contract if they just happen to be in the area they pick up the beacon and commit to the bombarding request and then get paid from whatever funds the MCC set aside for neutral droppers.

Use Starbase codes to prevent counter orbital friendly fire if you make the system automated. That way a friendly ship can park without getting shot down by friendly guns. However hostile guns on the planet may still acquire lock and shoot.

Make it possible that any nearby districts counter orbital assets would still work.

-Vix

It would be nice if there was an orbital bombardment 'flavour' for each weapon system.

Artillery bombardment - Huge, single explosion. Anti-armour.
Autocannon bombardment - Massive scattering of millions of bullets/shrapnel for several seconds. Anti-personnel.
Pulse laser bombardment - As shown in video. Pillars of light over the course of several seconds.
Beam laser bombardment - Long-lasting, constant beam of energy. DUST players can trace a path for it to take?

And other variations for blasters, railguns, torpedoes and cruise missiles.

It brings more tactical considerations to a fight. Also, it would be rather silly if each orbital strike behaved exactly the same, but with a different coat of paint.

Question about Warp in location...

Couldn't the eve ships just warp to the Warbarge?

Isn't it in orbit of the planet already? As such, if it's already out there in space, that would seem to make the most sense.

That reminds me, I didn't hear much about the warbarge at all at fanfest and was surprised when the characters started in the space station and not the warbarge. Does this mean running around your warbarge and trophy room is now gone?

As for the bombing itself, I was wondering if anyone recorded the Orbital warfare session and if so - can it be put up on youtube?

I feel that any "shell" based attacks would most likely burn up in an earth like atmosphere. This is why I would suggest all this be "bombs" of some sort and cause splash damage on the surface. Graphic effect of an explosion on the surface of the planet could be seen from eve.

IE - no guns, bombs only.

People need to stop saying this!

EvE Players dont get to aim, watch the vid, DUST bunnies give lock on code, then target paint where THEY want to hit.

And if you have DUSTies shooting themselves on the ground well you can have an auto kick/ban for repeated FF incidents, and its no diff than someone intentionally grenadin teammates....

Will particular planet types (really, their atmospheres) have specific resistances against the various ship-mounted weapon damage types?

Will planet-based infrastructure be able to be hardened against either or both ground and orbital attack?

What will the women and children do when their planet is bombarded?

Good times Dude good times. Once droped a house on my teamates in Battlefeild 3 But yeah OB is Controled by Dust bunnies.

It would be nice if Bunnies could use their air supiriority fighters(shown in the 2009 demo not sure if their still part of the game) to attack OB ships sort of like fighter drones. If you fly high unolf the game gives you a yes or no question on wether you would like to leave the planets atmo.

Say yes and you get a short warplike seen that puits you a few Km from the OB ship alowing you to atack it and manualy doge incoming fire.

Symultanesly carriers can send down their fighters to wreck havec on the battle feild below.

cause they were using artillery... and i think on the dust side theyd only completed one animation for laser OB.

Titan DD big unolf for you? That was a BS and The cam was how far away? I'm sure it was fairly impresive if you were right next to it.

I want harness symmetry on the ground where people on the grounds shields are strongest on the horizontal plane but weakly shielded from the top with structures and bunkers having hardness concentrated on the top for defense against aerial bombardment. The different weapons systems disperse energy in different planes. turret based weapons deliver best energy to the tops of targets. Explosive missiles would radiate a lot of energy sideways but waste some going up., Explosive projectiles radiate explosive energy outward, hybrids radiate some thermal energy outward. Perhaps lasers could have the finest resolution capable of making precision assassinations.

I like the idea of various resolutions in the weapon types, I hope we keep our damage type ideas and make resolution and missle blast radiuses pertinent. but the ground needs to be able to harden against us. I guess they would need to have to know ship identification for a general idea as to what to expect so they can have the fun of trying to defend.

As far as visuals. I always like the heat ripple effect radiating out of explosions before the destructive shockwave hits. SOUND is important, Man I want to hear the crack of thunder rolling down the valley and bouncing of the Seirras del Muerto just like Los Alamos.