EVE General Discussion

cut to 4:25 in this video. ignore the music... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzdAb-kY5_g


when i saw melee ships i immediately thought of that scene


would be cool to implement in the frigate/dessie/cruiser classes ingame but I can't see how without it hurting the game as current mechanics work

Just fly a hauler with cargo expanders, open up the cargo bay doors and eat the ship in space!

I think you're looking for this:

Ramming Warp Core Overcharger

This module works in a similar form to the Microwarpdrive, making use of the ship's warp core to accelerate it to ballistic speeds in the direction it faces, effectively converting it into a projectile that can be slightly directed in-flight for smashing on other ships. The greater the ship's mass, the greater the kinetic energy it gets. Of course, hitting other ships at such speeds also damages (heavily) the ramming ship, granting this module some sort of 'suicide attack' nature. However, since larger ships are usually more resilient than their smaller cousins, and also accumulate more kinetic energy due to their enormous mass, they are sometimes used for literally digging a tunnel through smaller ships' fleets, in a similar way a ground rail transport would traverse through smaller vehicles that happened to be on its way.

Traits:

- Only one can be fitted at the same ship.
- As MWD's, reduces maximum capacitor capacity and can be shut off by Warp Scramblers.
- Has a maximum, constant range of about... 50 km?
- High capacitor usage.
- The damage caused to both ramming and rammed ships can be calculed in a similar way to this one: they both receive damage equivalent to the mass (in kg) of the other ship, with perhaps a small reducement. This may be too much, but if you realise that shells accelerated by Projectile and Hybrid turrets have much smaller mass, while having similar speed, you'll see a whole ship has much greater kinetic energy, therefor causing much more damage. For nerfing things a bit, damage could be equal to ship's mass in tons, or in kg*10^2, for example.
- Once an entity has been hit (may it be a ship, an asteroid or even a space station), if the ramming ship is not destroyed it will continue its way but with reduced kinetic energy, proportional to the mass hit (real life energy equations could be used for determining all of this, but results could be pretty much apocalyptic), therefor causing less damage to the next entity it hits.

Potential uses:

- Using your almost-wrecked little Frigate to deal a glancing, heroic (read: suicide) blow to that nasty Battleship.
- Finishing that guy's ship the same size to yours, while getting yourself a painful HP drop.
- Cleaning Jita's undock from pirates using your Freighter as a monstrous, km-wide train/seaship to dig a tunnel through those little nasties, and getting yourself the rank of Hero from the traders.
- Wreacking havoc on some crowded highsec gate with your Battleship.
- Accelerating your Titan to... oh gods, that would be so apocalyptic.

Fun assured!

I've got a massive post in both F&I and assembly hall about ramming ships/damage. Look for it.

CONCORD.

The EVE equivalent is tacklers.

This. Is just.... beautiful... I'd suicide a freighter every day on the undock to punish the wannabePvPers that send you duel requests there...

if any ship goes melee, it should be the Incursus.

Actually I don't think the idea is bad at all, I've thought of it many times myself. For the naysayers, don't think of traditional "melee" - you have to adapt the idea to ships. Imagine some big capital ship with a maw on the front that could open up and swallow other ships whole. Imagine a ship with close range flamethrowers. Sky's the limit.

Does this mean I can now reach out of a my pod and hit miners with my ceremonial sword while we gank them with anti-matter?

"Navcomp! Get closer. I want to hit them with my sword!"