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New Weapon Type: Singularity Bomb / Doom's Day
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BoBoZoBo
MGroup9
#1 - 2014-08-14 16:30:50 UTC
A Bomb or Doom's Day weapon which creates a flash singularity / wormhole which sucks everyone in the affected area into it, causing them to be transported to another random system.

Bomb sends many targets a few systems away (5-15)
DD would send the one target across the galaxy (faster recharge time than current destructive DDs)

Pretty much like an involuntary cyno jump.

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Fer'isam K'ahn
SAS Veterinarians
#2 - 2014-08-14 17:13:43 UTC
I believe I heard this before... and consider it a bit (titsy tiny icky litty....) unbalanced. Roll
BoBoZoBo
MGroup9
#3 - 2014-08-14 18:13:06 UTC
Fer'isam K'ahn wrote:
I believe I heard this before... and consider it a bit (titsy tiny icky litty....) unbalanced. Roll


Explain how it is any more unbalanced than being killed?
No Counter?

What is the current Bomb / DD counter?

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Valkin Mordirc
#4 - 2014-08-14 18:49:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Valkin Mordirc
DoomsDays don't have a counter yeah, so why do we need another one? This idea is gimmicky at best, and would be used purely to troll with no real in game use other than that. You can say that, OH I can send an opposing fleet across the glaxay! Or one well placed bomb can send an enemy titan far away shifting the tide of battle!


Yeah you could.


But personally, me and thousand of others are just shooting these bombs at miners laughing hilariously, crossing our fingers hoping they land in a wormhole with no way out, or in some other high combat area.


Also a fleet of stealth bombers could totally clean a grid of an enemy fleet with a few well placed bombs. Just because they don't kill a fleet doesn't means it is balanced when it takes the fleet from J12-k1 or whatever, to god damn Jita. Also if a DD device can send caps away in this WH what will happen when a dread fleet lands in Amarr? Or some other silliness like that?


EDIT: Also bombs can be countered by fire walling I believe
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Valkin Mordirc
#5 - 2014-08-14 18:53:09 UTC
double post. =\
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Celthric Kanerian
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2014-08-14 19:16:14 UTC
What the actual **** is this? OP, you drunk?
Owen Levanth
Sagittarius Unlimited Exploration
#7 - 2014-08-14 19:17:33 UTC
BoBoZoBo wrote:
A Bomb or Doom's Day weapon which creates a flash singularity / wormhole which sucks everyone in the affected area into it, causing them to be transported to another random system.

Bomb sends many targets a few systems away (5-15)
DD would send the one target across the galaxy (faster recharge time than current destructive DDs)

Pretty much like an involuntary cyno jump.


Would like to see Doctor Doom's weapon in action. +1
Christopher Mabata
Northern Accounts and Systems
#8 - 2014-08-14 19:30:14 UTC
BoBoZoBo wrote:
Fer'isam K'ahn wrote:
I believe I heard this before... and consider it a bit (titsy tiny icky litty....) unbalanced. Roll


Explain how it is any more unbalanced than being killed?
No Counter?

What is the current Bomb / DD counter?


MJD away, Jump out, Dock, Turn hardeners to overheat?

This idea is too broken to be applied, some chaos is great, but splammable chaos that could be used in game breaking ways is not

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Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
#9 - 2014-08-14 20:01:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Alvatore DiMarco
So ... Hounds with Singularity Bombs will be the new hard counter to slowcats, PL and Wrecking Balls?
Lugia3
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2014-08-14 22:29:03 UTC
Have an alt bomb yourself = Fast Travel, or even worse, an emergency gtfo button.

Imagine "just in case" falcon alts. But instead of jamming you they teleport you and your enemy far away.

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Daichi Yamato
Jabbersnarks and Wonderglass
#11 - 2014-08-14 23:02:47 UTC
thats just annoying. yes dying would be much better than getting stuck somewhere and have to self destruct anyway.

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Jessica Danikov
Network Danikov
#12 - 2014-08-15 04:51:28 UTC
Hahaha, a wormhole bomb.

You know, even if it just teleported them in system, or just was some kind of force push bomb and could be used to break up tight blobs, that'd still be kinda cool. No idea about balancing and all that jazz and probably never going to happen, but the possibilities still tickle me.