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Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#41 - 2013-02-18 21:58:15 UTC
about time ccp addressed this long wanted feature! http://community.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=607249

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Anna Karhunen
Inoue INEXP
#42 - 2013-02-18 22:06:36 UTC
CCP Fozzie wrote:
I WANT THIS SO BAD.

I may or may not have a long-winded rant about how without Corpse Launchers the game will inevitably die that I give to any of my coworkers who aren't fast enough to escape.


That should be out before next International Talk Like a Pirate Day so that pirates (and the rest of us) could celebrate that festival properly. Of course, then you should also distribute a few complimentary corpses so people can test it before they fire away their prized corpsicles.

As my old maths teacher used to say: "Statistics are like bikinis: It's what they don't show that's interesting". -CCP Aporia
Arronicus
State War Academy
Caldari State
#43 - 2013-02-18 22:09:16 UTC
cheese monkey wrote:
Sergeant Acht Scultz wrote:
cheese monkey wrote:
Also... put repair services in the Rens trade hub FFS!!


6 out of 7 stations in Rens have repair facilities, change your home station? Lol


All the other trade hubs have repair. Why should I change, it's just an outdated part of EVE.


There's nothing at all outdated about it. PLAYERS selected the trade hub station, not CCP. If players had really cared about repair services, they would have gone with one of the other stations.

If it were truly outdated, all players would need to do is start trading in one of the other stations. Player Laziness, or general lack of caring, is not just reason, for ccp to change a station, to accomodate a couple.
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#44 - 2013-02-18 22:09:38 UTC
Anna Karhunen wrote:
CCP Fozzie wrote:
I WANT THIS SO BAD.

I may or may not have a long-winded rant about how without Corpse Launchers the game will inevitably die that I give to any of my coworkers who aren't fast enough to escape.


That should be out before next International Talk Like a Pirate Day so that pirates (and the rest of us) could celebrate that festival properly. Of course, then you should also distribute a few complimentary corpses so people can test it before they fire away their prized corpsicles.

Gives 'walking the plank' a whole new meaning. Twisted

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Proletariat Tingtango
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#45 - 2013-02-18 22:11:27 UTC
screw the splat, I want it to hit and bounce off of the hull in a cartoonish and comedic fashion, and i want optimal range/skills/etc. to determine hit or miss, so there's a chance you can just fire a corpse off into space never to be seen again... maybe it can crash-land in the middle of a Dust 514 matchup.

Give us planetary corpse launchers that don't require ridiculous hoops to jump through..
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#46 - 2013-02-18 22:12:53 UTC  |  Edited by: silens vesica
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
silens vesica wrote:
Screw Rens.

But I want the corpsicle* launcher.
+1



*For reasons I won't get into, I have seen what happen when a fozen mammal impacts a solid surface at high velocity. There is no 'splatter' but there *is* a certain amount of 'shatter.'


Would that be similar to the process they use to simulate bird strikes on Jet engines?

Shooting frozen chickens from a "chicken cannon" into working Jet engines sounds like it would be a laugh tbh.

More like bored baby-nucs in an engineering maintenance space - which means high-pressure gasses, cryogenic gasses, tygon hoses, fast-acting valves, and rodent traps.

Put those together in any way you care...

Edit:
BTW: Clean up quick, and it's easy. Wait even a short while, it gets messier.

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Anna Karhunen
Inoue INEXP
#47 - 2013-02-18 22:14:28 UTC
If I could put live ammo (Marines, etc) in it, I would finally have use for al those people I have gathered in missions, but haven't sold for isk. Actually... that'd be fun: Firing away the "boarding party" at the enemy. Space Marines for the win!

As my old maths teacher used to say: "Statistics are like bikinis: It's what they don't show that's interesting". -CCP Aporia
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#48 - 2013-02-18 22:16:10 UTC  |  Edited by: silens vesica
Anna Karhunen wrote:
If I could put live ammo (Marines, etc) in it, I would finally have use for al those people I have gathered in missions, but haven't sold for isk. Actually... that'd be fun: Firing away the "boarding party" at the enemy. Space Marines for the win!

Would we be able to bombard planets with them? Lends a whole new meaning to 'drop troopers.'


"Your reenforcements are on the way, Ground Leader Red.
Oops..!

We need a replacement for Ground Leader Red... He's all... Red."

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#49 - 2013-02-18 22:17:14 UTC
silens vesica wrote:
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
silens vesica wrote:
Screw Rens.

But I want the corpsicle* launcher.
+1



*For reasons I won't get into, I have seen what happen when a fozen mammal impacts a solid surface at high velocity. There is no 'splatter' but there *is* a certain amount of 'shatter.'


Would that be similar to the process they use to simulate bird strikes on Jet engines?

Shooting frozen chickens from a "chicken cannon" into working Jet engines sounds like it would be a laugh tbh.

More like bored baby-nucs in an engineering maintenance space - which means high-pressure gasses, cryogenic gasses, tygon hoses, fast-acting valves, and rodent traps.

Put those together in any way you care...

Edit:
BTW: Clean up quick, and it's easy. Wait even a short while, it gets messier.


Science and bored engineers, sounds like a recipe for fun to me.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#50 - 2013-02-18 22:37:40 UTC
I just want to jettison a hold full of corpses and fly through them at high speed. Instant Blood Raider Legion.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#51 - 2013-02-18 22:42:58 UTC
CCP Fozzie wrote:
I WANT THIS SO BAD.

I may or may not have a long-winded rant about how without Corpse Launchers the game will inevitably die that I give to any of my coworkers who aren't fast enough to escape.


Eve, the only game where the Devs even come close to being as sadistic and twisted as the players.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#52 - 2013-02-18 22:55:15 UTC  |  Edited by: FloppieTheBanjoClown
Anna Karhunen wrote:
If I could put live ammo (Marines, etc) in it, I would finally have use for al those people I have gathered in missions, but haven't sold for isk. Actually... that'd be fun: Firing away the "boarding party" at the enemy. Space Marines for the win!

This is the day. After twenty months of grueling training and two weeks in transit, the Fourth Orbital Marine Platoon is engaging in its first drop. We're as ready as humanly possible. A few of the guys have the shakes and I'm pretty sure Johnson was puking behind the bulkhead earlier, but I know when it hits the fan, I can count on these guys. The gear is stowed, we've triple-checked each others' kits and suits, and my squad is loaded in their drop pods. As is the tradition, I walk down the row, giving each hatch a sharp tap to let the boys know we're good to go.

I get in my command pod, the techs lock me in, and the computer fires up. My view is filled with biometrics and tactical data. I go through the final checklist on autopilot, and reach with one finger to flip the switch that signals our squad is good to go.

We're ahead of schedule, and the two minute wait in these titanium bullets stretches on forever. Finally there's the familiar whirring sound that indicates we're being loaded, and the rush of acceleration that no amount of inertial dampening can suppress as we're propelled out the side of an Abaddon-class battleship and toward our destination. Handrix, our resident daredevil, can't resist a hearty "WOO!" as we go ballistic.

I start into a typical sergeant's speech about what to do when we land. Then men know this by heart, but they also know that I'm talking to keep them focused more than I am to tell them anything they don't know. Just as I am saying "check your mates' gear as soon as possible", Johnson's biometrics go dead. Then Ramirez. Then Drabek and two more. I start to call out and see the rest of the squad blinking out one at a time. I switch on my external camera just as the last pod ahead of me smashes into the hull of a Ferox-class battlecruiser. I'm ten seconds behind him.

I just have time to voice my final thought: "F---ing capsuleers."

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Mesacc
New Big Dog Mining
#53 - 2013-02-18 23:52:59 UTC
Would also need some sort of counter mod to balance things out so its not over powered. Maybe a utility drone to clean off the blood splatters.
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#54 - 2013-02-19 00:53:57 UTC
Mesacc wrote:
Would also need some sort of counter mod to balance things out so its not over powered. Maybe a utility drone to clean off the blood splatters.


A High slot mod "Windshield Wipers"

Or the remote version "Car Wash"

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FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#55 - 2013-02-19 01:11:26 UTC
There would inevitably be that one homeless guy in Jita who used his remote "squigi" ship cleaner on everyone who undocked and then got made when they wouldn't pay him.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#56 - 2013-02-19 13:17:52 UTC
Yessssss! For next X-mas. Pleeeeeeeease!
CCP FoxFour
C C P
C C P Alliance
#57 - 2013-02-19 13:47:39 UTC
CCP Fozzie wrote:
I WANT THIS SO BAD.

I may or may not have a long-winded rant about how without Corpse Launchers the game will inevitably die that I give to any of my coworkers who aren't fast enough to escape.


I have been oh so fortunate enough to receive said rant about corpses and corpse launchers. Something about how corpses will eventually destroy EVE if we don't do something about them...

Fozzie makes quite the argument about it.

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Sephira Galamore
Inner Beard Society
Kvitravn.
#58 - 2013-02-19 14:26:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Sephira Galamore
CCP FoxFour wrote:
I have been oh so fortunate enough to receive said rant about corpses and corpse launchers. Something about how corpses will eventually destroy EVE if we don't do something about them...

Fozzie makes quite the argument about it.


Did it involve Zombies?

Or wait, with capsuleers hording the corpses, the biomass salvagers run into trouble providing enough clone-grade material! So fling them around, to keep the recycling business going.
Alayna Le'line
#59 - 2013-02-19 15:08:43 UTC
CCP Fozzie wrote:
I WANT THIS SO BAD.

I may or may not have a long-winded rant about how without Corpse Launchers the game will inevitably die that I give to any of my coworkers who aren't fast enough to escape.


That would explain why CCP Guard had that shotgun handy for the bounty hunting vidblog...
ChromeStriker
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#60 - 2013-02-19 15:57:06 UTC
CCP FoxFour wrote:
CCP Fozzie wrote:
I WANT THIS SO BAD.

I may or may not have a long-winded rant about how without Corpse Launchers the game will inevitably die that I give to any of my coworkers who aren't fast enough to escape.


I have been oh so fortunate enough to receive said rant about corpses and corpse launchers. Something about how corpses will eventually destroy EVE if we don't do something about them...

Fozzie makes quite the argument about it.


Save us from the mounting number of corpse cans!!!!!!!!!!!! Shocked

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