Planetary Defense Grids

[Irioth]

Some complaints are about the grid having to be indestructible, but I'm pretty sure I've seen objects able to be damaged, but when their health reaches zero they are disabled for a certain amount of time before coming back online. Kinda similar to shields. I don't remember if it was an older version of Discovery or another mod altogether, but I'm fairly certain this kind of thing could be done. This would still allow sieges, but making the grid very difficult to disable would discourage all but the largest of fleets from trying.

[marauder]

Ok, firstly i'm all for upping turret damage on bases and docking rings.
You should need a capship just to get close to a hostile base, plus it'll make sure people don't go OoRP and hang around an enemy station all day.

Second, maltas anti-capship weapons are missiles with MOX warheads. Not nukes, just really big, highly toxic and very nasty warheads.

Third, if people are seiging planets in capships then they're not RPing very well, IMO anyway.

[Unseelie]

Some complaints are about the grid having to be indestructible, but I'm pretty sure I've seen objects able to be damaged, but when their health reaches zero they are disabled for a certain amount of time before coming back online. Kinda similar to shields. I don't remember if it was an older version of Discovery or another mod altogether, but I'm fairly certain this kind of thing could be done. This would still allow sieges, but making the grid very difficult to disable would discourage all but the largest of fleets from trying.

Base turrets and tradelane turrets do this, so its imminently doable.

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[Irioth]

Base turrets and tradelane turrets do this, so its imminently doable.

Heh, didn't think about trade lanes. So, why not make the defense grid (however it'll be implemented) a bunch of "destructible" objects with a slow but powerful shot, a lot of health, and a long repair time surrounding each planet? I don't know how much this would lag capital systems, but it shouldn't be too bad unless a huge attack fleet arrives, but there would be lag if that happened without the grid.

Thoughts?

[jammi]

Why not small satilites dotted around the upper/lower atmoshpere with turrets on them, heavy station turrets perhaps. That way it would be like a network of satilites defending a planet, which is more likely then huge defence stations all over the surface (which in Liberties capitalist mind-set would use up good land that could be better used earning money)

Plus satilites would act as weapon platforms, so they would still be destructable. Similarly like weapon platforms they would re-appear when there are no players around or when the server crashes/shuts down, so seiging a planet would still be possible, just you would have to send in the fast fighter/bombers to take the turrets out before heavy support could move in.

(The idea of taking out the turrets first just made me think of objective based games:

Ok pilot, take out the defence wings, once you've cut through the enemy fighters take out the heavy gun platforms- keep your distance from the fighter platforms. *boom* You got the heavies? Good, heavy support will move in and take out the fighter turrets. *boom* Victory!:P)

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[Xing]

lets make an AEGIS shield like in SRWOG: millions of satelite deploying a huge shield like the nomad one you see in dyson sphere:D

nah joke of course.

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[Unseelie]

Xing, we already have that.
out at about 800k from the suns.
Keeps colonials and nomad superweapons out.
Can't RP it for closer in, because you cannot get through from the outside to the inside.

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