Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hi guys,
What you think of a new weapon system that create magnetic field pulses against the target?

Like pulses with cycles that work and affect with magnetism ?

Maybe a close range weapon with very limited damage but that bypasses all resists?

Any ideas and proposals are welcome!Thank you!

Please look up how railguns work.

EDIT: Btw, the Armor of spaceships usually is not made out of any kind of metal.

Interesting didn't know that.And what armors are made of?

railguns use magnetic fields to shoot plasma.........the OP proposes something akin to an smartbomb........you activate it and send a magnetic puls, TBH that sounds more like an EWAR module than a weapon......

Yes something like that.The idea is to have new weapons and not make eve more complex.

the thing with the magnetic pulse is that is more likely to be effective against shields, not so much for armor, also, magnetism doesnt produce any harm in fact it protects from solar winds so as a war platform it would enter more in the field of electronic dampening. i mean, damage to electronic systems.......and as an extension it could potentially be used against shield.

but im not sure....

It would have to be either Kinetic, Explosive or Heat in the terms of force applied as all of these forces have a type of Newtonian Physics applied and will remain constant with " when a body has a force placed against it the body will react comparable to the force placed against it."



EM would not be used because it really does not have a physical force multiplier but is geared more towards particle disruption at the atomic level.

Do you know magneto of x-men?Something like that but in a weapon system.Also for your information in real life US military is already making some tests with magnetic weapons that work like that and affect or damage structures .

i once tried to suggest new types of weapons, they got scrapped because they did look similar to other weapon systems. you have to analize the weapon systems we have right now in order to invent something new TBH:

-lasers: cap dependant, semipermanent ammo, instant ammo swap, huge optimal and huge falloff, limited to EM/Therm

-hybrids: not so cap dependant, ammo dependant, good optimal and rate of fire, not so good falloff, limited to Therm/Kin

-projectiles: no cap dependant, ammo dependant, short optimal and really long falloff, all around damage types but limited to Kin/Exp in T2

-missiles: no cap dependant, ammo dependant, damage is equal for all 4 damage types, missiles are an entity and can be
destroyed in flight, long rate of fire..

-drones: no cap dependant, nto so much ammo requirement, damage depends on the drone, all damage types covered, limited by bandwidth and dronebay capacity, sentries depend in omnidirectional tracking links, flying drones depend in navigation computers, maximum of 5 drones, drones can be destroyed, ship gets unbonused weapons as support...

-smartbombs: heavy cap dependant, not so long rate of fire, limited by AoE range, all damage types covered, no bonuses from any hull at this moment, does damage equally to friend and foes, concord penalized

-bombs: huge AoE, huge damage, all damage types covered, short flight time, can be destroyed in flight, banned from empire space.....

from this the only damage combos that hasnt been covered are: EM/Kin, Therm/Explosive and EM/Explosive as a whole......and we have practically covered all the possible weapon doctrines......

What if this new weapon system would bypass resists since it would affect the ships directly with magnetism and the damage though was low?