Player Features and Ideas Discussion

FIrst is a new turret, i'm aware turret types are somewhat unique per race. We already have Railguns/Blasters, Lasers, Projectiles or bullet firing weapons, missiles, torpedoes, rockets , smart bombs, bombs and doomsday weapons.


The Plasma turret:

Comes in two forms, Plasma Cannon (shortrange) and Plasma Lance (long range)

They run on gas canisters, (which are still made from minerals like all ammo) The gas gets compressed, charged and ionized before being fired. The gas types have different properties making different ammo types for range and falloff, some doing more or less thermal or explosive damage but always both.

It fires a white hot bolt of explosive plasma fire causing only Thermal/Explosive damage being the only damage combo i can see that isn't currently used.

The "shot" I see it as a very bright white core with a deep red outer glow fireball.

The Plasma Cannon is large bulky turret with a open mouth not unlike the civilian railgun but with 4 close firing arms (almost like upside down chair or table legs. Close up it's made of shiny shiny chrome like metal with glowing red and blue lights (Orange for T2) It makes a large almost slow-mo looking burning muzzle flash and the "shot" is a fast moving round-ish white red fireball. Making a big fiery explosion!

The Plasma Lance is a cone shaped turret also shiny shiny chrome with a wide base and ending in a sharp point. Not like a closed umbrella but more like a traffic cone. Unlike the Cannon the shot comes from the base of the cone. The "shot" is different than the Plasma Cannon more narrow like a hyper speed flaming arrow. Making a big fiery explosion too.

Ranges of both are comparable to Projectiles turrets.

Comes in sizes small to citadel! And race ships that can use it? Caldari, Amarr, Gallente primarily. Following the basic EVE fitting rules.

Overall it should use less cap than Rails and Blasters but more than Projectiles and nowhere near as much as lasers.

The Weapon upgrade for it is a Compressor Coil.



The other is more of a random idea but here it is:

The other is a Low Slot, ammo using, Countermeasure launcher. Only for med sized ships and up.

Not unlike real world flares and chaff it sends out a single short lived glowing probe like device that attracts turrets attacks and missles. The Countermeasure has little to no EHP so it's only good for a single use with a very slow (60-90 sec) release rate. It would be good for evasion before you get say 1400mm Tornado alpha killed. So if things go **** up you can warp out without being turned into molten slag. If you're caught in a warp or dictor bubble or scrammed, well then, you ever see piranha eat prey? Yeah like that.

The ammo for it, the countermeasures, are very big and take up alot of cargo space with only 5 being able to be fitted to the launcher. Because it only drops it, it uses almost no cap and minimal CPU, but a good amount of powergrid.

It would be handy for industrials and transports even cruisers and battleships. Since it's demanding it can't be used by frigates.



P.S the Plasma Turret is the idea i'd really like to see come to life. I mean who doesn't like fiery plasma? Never mind the credit for the idea, for me i'd like it to go down as a Caldari invention

"That's a spicy meat-a-ball!"

If you read the description of hybrid weapons especially blasters you will see that we already have plasma type weapons.

Isnt what you described called a blaster cannon?

Acid cannon? Because what you've described is a world of warcraft rogue class ship. Which would be ridiculous.

Blaster turn solid ammunition into particles, then uses a rail like system to fire it. What I've described is completely different. Hence the running on gases for ammuniton.

It's essentially a very fancy and precise flame thrower.

Dots! More Dots!

we have a rogue class ship- the stealth bomber!

While the thought of adding more weapons into the game is nice what would it's purpose be? What would it add to the game that we don't already have?

Unless a new weapon system was introduced that came with it's own set of unique mechanics, you are just as well adding new ammo types to cover the dmg type combo.

personally when i think of all of the weapons currently in play, i think it is hard to find something else to fit in. The only real thing that comes to mind would be some description of stream weapon that offered very low alpha but high sustained dps. but then which race would use it? which ships would bonus it?

If i had the skills to draw and design i would of. It's the best i can do. Unless i take courses in graphic design or autocad.

Indeed a flamethrower in space would be awesome. Refer to picture link for how awesome it would look like.

http://i.imgur.com/b7YJ9gi.gif