On 2010-06-16 01:44, James296 wrote:
(basically bigger slut hits harder)

On 2010-06-16 03:23, Diep Luc wrote:
Looks like you guys are dreaming of "INSTANT death".

I dislike it. I prefer long time combat so I can train combat and navigator skill.

On 2010-06-16 02:11, -Shadowalker-™ wrote:

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On 2010-06-16 01:44, James296 wrote: (basically bigger slut hits harder)

I think you mean bigger slug. not the other thing.

On 2010-06-16 02:12, Starcommand of ICC *XO* wrote:
You are thinking of a spinal mount gun, one that fires only the direction the ship is facing, with minimal arc. Such a gun in DS would wipe entire planets in a single go, aka exterminus.

Should one ever be made, it would be a cruiser only wep. The Long Toss Cruiser. A true super-weapon, with a range of 10k, and an extremely fast travel speed so it can it at those ranges. It would require the nav map to even target, and have a min range of 2k. The damage it would do when it reached its target would be massive. Near Killing a station in a single hit, and only 1 of this ships can be spawned at any given time. The recharge rate is a station HMA time, so 2 1/2 min to charge. The ship would hold only 5 shots and these cannot be resupplied, it requires the ship to be in orbit of a planet to reload them. It would have its main gun, 2 heavy railguns, and 6 beams for point defense. If someone could come up with a cool model for it, this would be one awesome ship. ICC would be the ones who would come up with something like this, UGTO MIGHT and it would be unfathomable to the Kluth.

On 2010-06-16 06:22, Zerbubus wrote:
the only thing i never understand in games like this and stuff, Where do you get the idea that more Armour means lower top speed???

Yes Thrust would be effected, but in theory the engines would constantly push a object (ship) at ever increasing speeds to the point that it atleast matches the exit velocity of the escaping thrust particles (weither Ion, Gas, other), thus large speed's over time would be achieved. The same being that slowing down would also take greater levels of thrust for large MASS ships.

So a example being a Scout (low mass) would reach a high speed in maybe a few seconds to low minutes, where a Dreadnought (high mass) would take far longer, even with the extra engines it would have mounted, and would need a huge opposite thrust to then come to a stop, and not having same engines forward facing then from rear facing, would take considerably longed to stop then it would to reach maxium speed.

(sorry to rant, but it always annoys me that game seem to have a dead stop on speed at a set point)

On 2010-06-16 06:22, Zerbubus wrote:
the only thing i never understand in games like this and stuff, Where do you get the idea that more Armour means lower top speed???

Yes Thrust would be effected, but in theory the engines would constantly push a object (ship) at ever increasing speeds to the point that it atleast matches the exit velocity of the escaping thrust particles (weither Ion, Gas, other), thus large speed's over time would be achieved. The same being that slowing down would also take greater levels of thrust for large MASS ships.

So a example being a Scout (low mass) would reach a high speed in maybe a few seconds to low minutes, where a Dreadnought (high mass) would take far longer, even with the extra engines it would have mounted, and would need a huge opposite thrust to then come to a stop, and not having same engines forward facing then from rear facing, would take considerably longed to stop then it would to reach maxium speed.

(sorry to rant, but it always annoys me that game seem to have a dead stop on speed at a set point)