/lockdown

[pipsqueak]

OK I took my time and read through the all the pages and I am looking at it from a few different perspectives...

1. Wishful thinking?.. Maybe, this one will be tough to pull off...
hook wise you want the program to scan and find all objects within 14k distance and then "damage" them till they are off (may be keep damaging them for 1 and a half minute) EEEKKKKK... good luck with that CANNON. Please give the poor guy a break.

2. Balance wise..(Favors liberty police significantly)
What are you willing to give up? can rogues /Gunboat an NPC patrol when they are outnumbered away from tradelanes?...just pondering...

I propose a simpler solution.

**LOCK DOWN MISSLE***
Hull Damage= 210 (Same as Reinforced Cruise Disruptor/ 2nd Best for CD)
Shield Damage= 128 (Same as Mosquito Cruise Disruptor/ Best for a CD)
Refire = 0.50 (Yup this will be a slow refire because of its definate advantage to prevent spamming)
Range= 3,850 m (350 more than Reinforced Cruise Disruptor/ Best for a CD)
Speed= 522 m/s (Same as Mosquito / Slowest for a CD)
Energy = Uses a quarter of a Class 9 Light fighter like liberator's energy. ( you will be using this to stop a ship not fight it any way, also this makes it less used in a PvP.)
Turn Rate= 4.36 (Think firestalker agility but give the transport a better chance of escaping)
Area of effect = 500m (50 less than Reinforced, 100 more than a train CD/ This will be best for small ships)
*Make sure you dont have NPC friendlies around you.

**Requirements**
House GUARD police faction affiliation and a House GUARD police faction ID.
Atleast one red flashing light on your light fighter class ship.
Atleast one blue flashing light on your light fighter class ship.
(the idea is if you use this missle, you should have a tough time blowing a transport up)
**What it will do***
Disrupts the cruise of a ship for 45 seconds (9x the normal amount).

This will be a little tougher tough to connect but if you hit, the trader is dead in the water with only thruster and with 45 seconds for you to charge up cruise and get to it, RP Away and plug him with another dose on 43'rd second.

Any reaction to this approach ?

PS. Since I had started a different thread with /lockdown aspect, I will add that here to avoid duplication
Ok here is an idea brewing in my head.

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Local police ships can mount color lights to simulate a cop ship but they are on all the time.

Can CANNON please make a fl hook the can change certain hardpoints in game to docking lights and back ?

I am assuming that information will need to be buffered what the hard points were (transfer to lights 127 & 128 on the ship data ?). but ghtsoff would change the flashing lights to dock lights that would stay off....then revert back if I typed ghtson it would go back to the original ?
LSF would fly with ghtsoff till they spot trouble

Imagine a smugglar going silent (ghtsoff) before trying to sneak into liberty..

My thoughts on the command
<ghts> (on/off) (NUM)
where NUM is corresponding to your lights (you can have multiple NUM with spaces. eg. ghtsoff 1 2 3 4 5 would change lights 1 through 5 to docking lights.
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So cop sees ship, turns on lights to activate the CD (remember ? need one red and one blue), shoots the smugglar bugger and then rp's away.

PEACE (WHOA long post)

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