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Offline thegreenmonk

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Reply #560 on: May 25, 2005, 04:47:22 pm
THis is probably a bit laye or has been said already but here goes...

I think that the idea of torpedoes is a good idea - a full broad side into an enemy ship would be a hell of a sight and a b*******  if you were flying between the ships at the time
 

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Reply #561 on: May 26, 2005, 01:32:09 am
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Originally posted by thegreenmonk
THis is probably a bit laye or has been said already but here goes...

I think that the idea of torpedoes is a good idea - a full broad side into an enemy ship would be a hell of a sight and a b*******  if you were flying between the ships at the time


:wtf:

Torpedoes: ability to change flight pattern and maneuver.
Broadside: Pointing as many guns as possible at the enemy ship for maximum effect.

Where do those two connect?
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Offline FireCrack

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Reply #562 on: May 26, 2005, 02:41:11 am
Torpedos are for full 360 coverage. Long range, slow firing, ut plenty of launchers.


Well i guess this would change depending on the type of torpedo, if your launching ursa sized meson bombs then well whole different ballpark from helios or cyclops size warheads.
actualy, mabye not.
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Offline Flaser

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Reply #563 on: May 26, 2005, 01:17:59 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich


:wtf:

Torpedoes: ability to change flight pattern and maneuver.
Broadside: Pointing as many guns as possible at the enemy ship for maximum effect.

Where do those two connect?


I guess I know.
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Reply #564 on: May 26, 2005, 02:43:34 pm
Torpedos can be broadside armament; and more to the point, we don't currently have the capablity to give a missile launcher 360" coverage in FS and make it look right. Or to truly manuver, for that matter. Play Inferno and watch the cruiser torp launches.

And if you've ever seen a Hapshepshut engage an enemy capital ship above it, you've probably seen something similar because of those Fusion Mortars.
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Offline aldo_14

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Reply #565 on: May 26, 2005, 02:59:38 pm
Just think of a galleon from a few hundred years and subsitute un/guided torpedos for the cannonballs. :D
 

Offline FireCrack

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Reply #566 on: May 26, 2005, 07:02:12 pm
Yeah, i'm aware of engine limitations but that's just how it 'feels'
actualy, mabye not.
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Offline thegreenmonk

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Reply #567 on: June 01, 2005, 01:03:38 pm
The heavier torpeodos will move slower than the weaker torps so their use as a long range armament is limited, as they could be shot down.  However as a close range weapon they have potential, no guidence pakage means more room for more warhead, and also Capital ships would also have to get closer to each other, rather than having them standing off using beams. This would make for interesting combat.
 

Offline thegreenmonk

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Reply #568 on: June 16, 2005, 03:46:42 pm
maybe that post was a bit much - deffinately think to much about these things - better consentrate on exams :)
 

Offline Paragon

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Reply #569 on: June 23, 2005, 10:51:42 am
What about a sort of subspace torpedo boat, like a submarine.  It uses intra-system drives...and chasing those things could also mean more subspace combat...which would be really cool.  The ships would just pop out of subspace in front of their target, squeeze off a few torps, jump back into subspace.

Probably not the best place to suggest this, since you're looking for new destroyer designs......but I'd like to see someone do that nonetheless...
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Offline thegreenmonk

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Reply #570 on: June 23, 2005, 03:51:46 pm
sounds good - a pain to fight against - but good to use against the Shivans.  :) would really need to be a 1 shot tactic to use in the middle of a battle when everybody else is occupied.  

But anyway - to the destroyermobile
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Offline Sandwich

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Reply #571 on: June 23, 2005, 06:38:15 pm
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Originally posted by Paragon
What about a sort of subspace torpedo boat, like a submarine.  It uses intra-system drives...and chasing those things could also mean more subspace combat...which would be really cool.  The ships would just pop out of subspace in front of their target, squeeze off a few torps, jump back into subspace.

Probably not the best place to suggest this, since you're looking for new destroyer designs......but I'd like to see someone do that nonetheless...


I love that idea... so much so, in fact, that I already came up with it a few years back. :p And, at the time, I found out that such a thing had been enables in the SCP a while before my idea. :p
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Paragon

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Reply #572 on: June 23, 2005, 08:41:40 pm
Great minds think alike.
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Offline Sandwich

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Reply #573 on: June 24, 2005, 03:55:48 am
Amen and amen. ;)
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Aquatayne

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Reply #574 on: July 06, 2005, 05:36:35 am
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dude it is an awesome ship. sandwich if i were u, i would choose this ship or one of its 'better' versions
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #575 on: July 06, 2005, 07:41:28 am
do the rear propellers spin, and provide lateral thrust?
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Offline Nico

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Reply #576 on: July 06, 2005, 08:03:13 am
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I love that idea... so much so, in fact, that I already came up with it a few years back. :p And, at the time, I found out that such a thing had been enables in the SCP a while before my idea. :p


You make it sound like the SCP existed 5 years ago :p
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Offline thegreenmonk

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Reply #577 on: July 08, 2005, 12:39:55 pm
Very cool - gotta get me one of them :)
 

Offline TrashMan

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Reply #578 on: January 08, 2006, 04:24:15 pm
Very cool..
but remeber:

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Offline Sandwich

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Reply #579 on: January 08, 2006, 04:33:13 pm
This was bumped 6 months for that? :doubt:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
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