Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So I like bombs and bomb launchers because you get to trade the ability to lock on to your target for higher damage and splash damage. I think it'd be cool to have more weapons like this. For example, you could have a missile that travels in a straight line for a certain amount of time and doesn't explode unless it hits something.

Pros:

-Higher damage than other missiles and bombs

-Very little CPU usage (compared to launchers of similar size and class)

Cons:

-If it doesn't hit, doesn't explode.

-Will be pretty much imposible to hit anything smaller than a battleship, and even then hitting a moving battleship will take some skill to hit at a great distance

-The farther ahead a moving target is, the more you'll have to lead the shot (though big and slow ships might require little to no leading)

-Lots of powergrid usage

-Large fights will mean that another ship may get in the way and keep you from hitting your intended target.

-Having to align to your target it in order to hit it will keep you from being to easily warp out in case of trouble.

So it'd basically be like bombs are but exchanging the ability to do damage to multiple targets with higher damage to one target. You could even have projectile turrets, hybrid turrets, and lasers that work similarly (don't track targets and can only be fired straight forward) that do good damage too.

Thoughts?

how does someone like you know you will have to rewrite the "entire" game code, are you a dev doesn't look like it.

Poor server hamsters - even with the upgraded wheels they would suffer.

Timed explosion are in game. They are called bombs. The issue is the damage check of bombs is done across the whole explosion radius so a impact only bomb would need to do a double check of "did I hit something" with a 1 meter explosion radius and then a X meter explosion radius damage roll. At that point, you start asking why would someone design such a bomb that only explode on contact and at the end of a fuse when you can make it go boom at the end of the fuse without impact.

You also can't have it "only target immobile targets" because it's not targeted in the first place. It's just launched in space with a hope of scoring a hit.

You are talking about "Line of Sight" mechanics. And no, it is nothing like D-Scan (which is a simple "check-return info").
LoS pretty much require all of the same mechanics that have been talked about above.

Titans will soon be getting a weapon with those kinds of mechanics though... so there is hope.
But due to its gimmicky nature of the weapon looks to be more of a "we would like to put this kind of stuff in, but we want to see how much it would affect the server first... so we're gonna put them ships that people only bring into direct combat every so often."

Have a timer that starts after decloak to where weapons of this class can't be fired until the timer expires? Or maybe not have the shot fire immediately after activation, a "charge up" period if you will. To give the unsuspecting victim enough time to dodge it if they're alert.