EVE General Discussion

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"We are also enabling the ultimate in cross game escapades, Orbital Bombardment, with the first flavor being the Tactical Strike. You may have also noticed some new ammo blueprints on the market (Tactical EMP S, Tactical Laser S, Tactical Hybrid S). Well, now you can load up these special long range, high precision munitions into suitable small turret weapons and rain fire from the skies. This will be available to Faction Warfare battles in low security space and we’ll leave it up to you to arrange the details of this with your new fleet-footed buddies. As one might assume, more guns are just better, so I recommend the destroyer hull as the best compromise between damage, mobility and cost for this particular task."

Much more fun to logon and find changes that way ^_^

It does seam a bit weird ... I know CCP are probably doing it so we don't have to train for a new weapon system (Which is nice of them.) But part of me would like to see some old school "YOU MUST TRAIN THIS NEW ORBITAL WEAPON SYSTEM FOR 3 YEARS!!" harshness.

Why would a battleship waste time firing into a 24 man skirmish?

DUST is not Planetside 2, the scale is tiny.

My argument is from a gameplay perspective primarily, but additionally the massive range of the shells is far out of the realms of what i assumed to be small turret capability and small ship capability.

If the 24 man skirmish is for somewhere important the skirmish is more than the numbers involved. Thought that was the difference between DUST and call of duty, meaning to the conflict.

When i think "Orbital Bombardment" i think of mealstroms, not atrons.

"your main battle tank recieved 100,000 Damage from Keno Skirs Iteron 1 and was vapourized..."

well if we used Abaddon and fired lasers from orbit , the atmosphere would negates most of the EM .
Fun Fact :
Lunar Laser Ranging experiment , 1GigW lasers are fired from earth for 0.0000001 seconds , less than 10^8 photons actually return back to earth. Atmosphere and with their diverse composition, lasers would just be defracted ,refracted and generally dispersed in the atmosphere before they even hit the planet. If you force it down, you'll just waste energy ionizing the atmosphere.

As i said on another thread.

I am disappointed my Moros can't make holes through planets.
Bad CCP.

Now if you use small hybrid ammo (Rails / projectile)
NOW THOSE should be scientifically the BEST orbital bombardment material.
You can aerodynamically shape them so they won't burn up in orbit,and they're more controllable :D

You my friend are closing in on a very good point. That said they could just as well attack a battleship with adjusted damage and keep everyone sweet :P