So, bases

[Govedo13]

What we need is a way to destroy bases that involves about as much time and risk as building one in the first place.

This- it is simple and doable. I explained this 100 times already.

1. POB build Capital ship heavy gun that takes as much resource as 2 base cores in order to be produced.
2. Give it:
- short range
- slow speed
- no arc
- long projective life time
- very slow refire rate.
- one shot should cost 7m BS powercore

3. Give it enough DPS to kill level 4 base in 4-5 hours shooting if there are no platforms and no resistance.

4. Make sure that the gun is lost if the battleship that mounts it dies.

5. The gun needs fuel to shot and I mean a LOT of fuel to successfully gun down a base.

6. So you got the full element of the siege including all types of ships both from defenders and attackers side. As result he base killing gun investment should cost as much time and should have the same risk and same benefits as base building.





7. Notes TL:TR:

You can include also small amounts from more different kind of materials to make the gun harder to make, or even nomad powercell as well.

Also all of the suggested stats and shapes are quite possible to be done with just modifying the existing base products without new code, except may be the fueling but in the fuel case Cannon can make it to work with FLHook magic using the existing code from the cloaks.

Note it cannot kill base alone or in team of 1-2 because of the gun platforms. At least 5-6 people team should be required to enable to gun base down that fast and this in case that there are no defenders presented.
If there are defenders presented they could just smite the gun bearer Battleship and destroy your siege gun if you do night actions with smaller crew.

Other prevention of the smaller fast night action team is that the smaller range would require the siege gun ship to come into the weapon platforms scope and that the gun would need proper fuel support- let say 100 000 units of H-fuel to keep it shooting for the needed 4-5 hours.

The huge fuel usage would also prevent the fast base killing by multiple siege guns.Also battleships does not have much cargo space so they must be fed with dropped or transferred fuel- quite hard under the platforms fire and defenders fire.

The transport fuelers are as fragile as the base suppler transports- this would force the both parties to launch multiple types of ships because only capspam is worthless in such situation.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)