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Focused Bombs

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Gareth deKunnis
Absolute Order
Absolute Honor
#1 - 2017-05-24 19:17:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Gareth deKunnis
I'd like to see some sort of focused bomb made legal in Empire.

Maybe it would be require a target lock to launch but lock would not have to be maintained after launch? Maybe it would be only about as powerful as a volley of torps but would allow the SB to GTFO after launch as is the current tactic with bombs.

Anyway bombers have been nerffed and buffed and tweaked for a long time. Most of the changes seem to have been good. I'd just like to see a tool added to the bombers which could allow similar tactics in Empire as are common in NULL but which did not give so much advantage to bombers that they are again in need of some sort of nerf. It seems to me that focused bombs or fire and forget targeting might be an answer to that.

Maybe even just fire and forget torps?
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#2 - 2017-05-24 19:24:47 UTC
it would be straight up silly for freighter ganking, I'm going with no

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Gareth deKunnis
Absolute Order
Absolute Honor
#3 - 2017-05-24 19:29:48 UTC
Yeah, hadn't thought about that.
Beast of Revelations
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#4 - 2017-05-24 20:39:39 UTC
I don't know why bombs aren't already legal in high sec. It should be just like anything else - attack someone without 'good reason' (they are suspect, they are wardec'ed, etc) you pay the price. All the nuances (no capships, no bombs, no this, no that) are dumb.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#5 - 2017-05-24 20:54:03 UTC
Beast of Revelations wrote:
I don't know why bombs aren't already legal in high sec. It should be just like anything else - attack someone without 'good reason' (they are suspect, they are wardec'ed, etc) you pay the price. All the nuances (no capships, no bombs, no this, no that) are dumb.

If X is allowed, then counters to X have to be allowed.

Pretty soon you have nulsec.
ISD Bubblemoon
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ISD Alliance
#6 - 2017-05-24 21:02:22 UTC
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Lugh Crow-Slave
#7 - 2017-05-24 22:03:27 UTC
... this would ONLY be used for freighter ganking how can you not have thought of that? have you ever even once tried to hit a sub cap with a focused bomb?

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grgjegb gergerg
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#8 - 2017-05-25 06:21:15 UTC
Beast of Revelations wrote:
I don't know why bombs aren't already legal in high sec. It should be just like anything else - attack someone without 'good reason' (they are suspect, they are wardec'ed, etc) you pay the price. All the nuances (no capships, no bombs, no this, no that) are dumb.

Because people would probably do things like bomb the Jita undock pretty regularly. Like, fill a Bowhead or Orca with SBs, fit with, well, probably just a bomb launcher and a single bomb each, probably not even bother with cloaks.

Pop in, probably already at -10 (and if not then, then soon), grab a SB, land and fire. Then they wait for lulz, maybe scoop some loot with an alt. Repeat 15 minutes later and CONCORD eats the SBs each time. Maybe profit, definitely lulz.

I'd like to see capitals moving through hisec, myself, as it would just be neat-looking. Just disable their ability to affect anything besides themselves. Unfortunately that changes a LOT of things with force projection and lets people stash things in hisec.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#9 - 2017-05-25 18:16:05 UTC
Beast of Revelations wrote:
I don't know why bombs aren't already legal in high sec. It should be just like anything else - attack someone without 'good reason' (they are suspect, they are wardec'ed, etc) you pay the price. All the nuances (no capships, no bombs, no this, no that) are dumb.




Because there would be one going off on the Jita 4-4 undock every 10 seconds

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