Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I propose a new ship class which would be anti capital ship and possibly anti structure ship.

Corvette should be roughly the size of a cruiser (or possibly a T2 destroyer variant)

This ships only weapon would be new special x-large cruise missiles.

Each launcher high slot can be fitted with new special x-large cruise missile module that is in fact ONE warhead. Shoot it at the target and the module disappears entirely. When all high slots have been used up, the ship must disengage combat and refit new warheads at Mobile depot (or a special variant of mobile depot). This would add more logistical dimension to cap engagements.

These new warheads should be extra pricey (15-20 m per warhead) and I would like to see a possibility to intercept these with interceptors before they hit their targets, but I am unsure how this could be implemented. On the other hand, these munitions should be extra resilient against smart bombs.

Existence of these ships would have the following impact:

- force big cap fleets to have smaller ships as escorts
- enable smaller entities more means to engage capitals, while also keeping capitals useful (no nerfs)
- expansion of battlefield due to need of logistical base

I will not go into specific ship stats. What do you think of this concept?

Just a thought, if you can stop warheads with frigate sized ships, can't you just do it with a swarm of light drones ? If that's the case, cap fleets wouldn't need a small ships escort, just a drone bay.

This is pretty much why I think I am unsure how it could be implemented. Essentially drone assisting would be able to shoot down these missiles. Light drones couldn't probably land a hit unless the missile would be webbed down.

There would still be need ships to do the targeting for them, though. My idea is that these new special missiles would go around 2.5 - 3 km / s (large enough to hold a small mwd etc) so they'd have sig radius of a destroyer.

Basically it could be a viable strategy to clear enemy fast lockers and then bring in these ships for a bombing run. Ships themselves should be pretty much paper thin and range of missile 40-60 km. Any closer and you get wasted immediately... this range/speed would give decent chance for escorts to do their job.

Cruiser-sized bombers???

Agree! Those pesky noobs out there should tremble in awe and fear if we do an op in our wtfbbqpwnmobiles. Heavenly entity (existing or not) forbid we would have to actually fight neweer players instead of rolling over them with the mighty hammer that is superior skillpoints.
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anti-capital/anti-structure ship?
you mean dreadnought?

how different this ship will be from dreadnought?

b/w There are XL cruise missile, it is called Citadel Cruise Missile

I might suggest a few changes to your idea, first off, by calling a cruiser-sized ship a corvette, your making me crazy.

Second, I would suggest that instead of x-large missiles, they would be called "Unguided siege missiles" And that they would only activate against "super capitals" much like doomsdays only work against capital+ sized hulls now.

The offset being these ships could not fire/defend themselves at all from any other class of ship. (No drone bay either.)

I will admit, I do think the game badly needs an anti-supercapital class of ship, but honestly don't see an issue with normal capitals, they are countered by just about every ship, including themselves.

i understand your wished but it's already have dreadnought that u already say .