Weapon ideas

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What about stuff like these proof of concepts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGVs68MJ3TE...re=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgKwBpEYK90...feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-P68pLypqk...feature=related
I would love to see these as items to buy, if possible.

Another idea would be a point defense turret that you could use to shoot down missiles, torpedoes, and mines? A gun that has high refire and a small blast radius, but it would be useless against anything else.

First off , the third video, a full visual/radar cloak is a definite no, unless it was Admin Only so that they could sneak around rule breakers and ninja their deaths. (Other games have similiar abilities given to admins to hide them from players so that said player doesnt know hes being watched should he decide to cheat.)

To the Second, Repair guns have been suggested many times. They would make Repair Ships so much more usable as they would have to be active and not just botstorage. In addition it could open up the idea of a Combat Repair Ship (While a Repair Ship would be best at repairing, having more repair turrets that repair more points), an SHF Type ship with 1-2 weaker repair guns, but the added ability of being able to use anti-fighter guns would allow for a more unique roll being able to go offensive against other fighters, or support their own fighters to a [b]small[b] extent with its repair guns.

To the first, Radar cloak would be nice, but only if it still allowed the targetting of the ship.
Instead of being completely untargettable, perhaps make it so that the ship must be within 3500 to target.

In addition to limiting it to certain RP's, perhaps limited to Special Operative RP's where it would benefit the players RP to be hidden from his/her enemy instead of:

Covert Operative: *static is heard over the comms line as the ship begins jamming long-range scanners*
<time passes>
Random Hostile: "Hostile on scanners 14k away, moving in to engage"
<pew pew>

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I've put up a few weapon suggestions in the past, none got much word.
I had a kitbashed mining ship as a Minelayer launching large mines in a slightly scattered pattern that lasted for 2-5 minutes using the Zone-21 Mine model.

Aside from that, I had a Torp-Mounted Shotgun, and a Torp Mounted Swarm Missile Salvo launcher. Both use practically the same concept in terms of how they work, the only difference being the type.

The shotgun, in one triggering, would fire 7 scattered projectiles, should each projectile hit their target it would do a between 2k under, to 2k over Mini Razor damage. Having a 2-5 second refire to counter the slightly lowered aiming requirements.
The Swarm Missile Launcher would, in one triggering as before, fire 7 scattered missiles, doing 2250 damage each (or 13500 damage total if they all hit). Having a 5-10 second refire to counter the ability to blow off guns. (Yes I know theres an issue with missiles and server lag, thats why theres not much interest in this one, but the shotgun is still doable if you ask me)