Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I would like to see a new Model for Stealth Bombers being in the Destroyer sized range would make more sense with the new missile bays and would give more variety to the game. I also would want to have 4 launcher bays on the ship with 2 highs for the cloak and bomb launcher. Or allow for a set up to be either 4 launchers with a cloak or 3 launchers with a bomb and a cloak. or make it so it could have 2 bomb launchers with a cloak. to give this ship more variety of how it is flown.

In another game, that might be a great idea.

People already consider the SB marginally acceptable, because it can cloak and do damage. Just not enough to insta pop ships usually.

Anything bigger than a frigate, could effectively duplicate what takes multiple frigates. Now when you add cloaking to that, you have the space equivalent of backstabbing insta-pop kill-mail harvest time.

It was just an idea I had as IRL stealth bombers are slower and align more slowly plus i dont feel the damage that the ship does now is what it should be. This ship should be a glass cannon and as it stand a AF can out DPS it.

So what your saying is because a ship is powerful it shouldn't be in the game. It wouldn't be all that more powerful with the idea i have as torps still have massive explosion radius. So if your dumb enough to Carebear and get caught by this you deserve to get popped. Also with the larger size it would be easier to hit by most ships so it would be more vulnerable also. It would be a even trade off. If your saying any ship that can cloak is OP then Recons, T3's and Black OP's should be removed from the game also.

What you're smoking, can I has?

Against small stuff, sure an AF can out dps an SB, but against say, a battleship, where both will being doing max damage, a completely gank fit (rigs and all) Ishkur with t2 blasters firing void ammo 'only' has 369 dps while a Nemisis, with T2 torp launchers firing rage torps, and nothing else fitted at all puts out 400 dps, and 631 dps when gank fit (does not include bombs)

HINT HINT: Lose the cloak, and keep the damage potential below T2 cruiser output, and you might have something.

(Assuming we are talking about a T2 destroyer)

Anything this powerful won't need the cloak anyways. Think warthog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II

Armor it up, so it fits between the AF and the HAC, and you have your beast. A destroyer in the word's true meaning...

But your hedgehog idea is good?

Yeah, I think it is. The Hedgehog has nothing to do with cloaking as a design attribute either.

Plus, if you had not noticed, it is considered underpowered and vulnerable, as far as ship designs go.

Now, this is not my thread, so I will try to avoid inflicting more of that idea here.

Dual bomb launchers, assault destroyer... that could be interesting. But I think losing the cloak makes sense here, it is powerful and people will object a lot less if they can see it coming.

Yes I think this would add an interesting game play for Alliances that like to blob large cap fleet if you sent in the heavy bombers you could set up bomb run against these and try to take them out this way or orbit them and hit them with your torps as only med and light drones would be able to hit you. I think the target DPS of the launchers should be around 500 as that is a fair amount from a destroyer but not as much as HACs can put out. With the resist and AB speed take this would make me really like some help fleshing out this idea more if more people like this.

With the change from SB being destroyer sized ships to a T2 Destroyer Called a Heavy Bomber should I start a new thread on this With the heading Heavy Bomber?