Just an idea

[afoofis]

I have been thinking about it and i thought that it might be a good idea to make missile ships. These can can go along side a battleship and easy destroy enemy shields with emp missiles. The ships would have special missiles to balance. The missile would be mainly emp or with limited damage. Can't have 40 cannonballs flying at you :yahoo:

Anyways i'm making a basic sketch in gmax. If the responses are good i might continue the ship. But my skinning is limited so it doesn't look good.

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[pchwang]

Pretty cool dude... :D I like!

The only problem is: Many non-vanilla ships do not take missile damage, like the Battlestars. And I'm guessing that you intend to use these ships as anti-capship ships, and that is not going to work that well, since most capships are impervious to missiles.

If missile speeds were upgraded, however this kind of ship may serve as an interesting kind of anti-fighter ship.

This, however, depends on the general use of specialized ship roles and the cooperative use of fleets. i.e. Having a main battleship, bombers, VHFs, LFs, Destroyers, and your missile ship.

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[7:42:05 PM][6:51:36 PM] Igor (Smokey): btw terry
[6:51:48 PM] Terrance Cooper: Ye?
[6:52:00 PM] Igor (Smokey): nothin
[6:52:03 PM] Igor (Smokey): just sayin btw
[6:52:05 PM] Terrance Cooper: <_<

Johnny_Haas: you shot anti criuse speed rockets!!!
Johnny_Haas: but why????
Johnny_Haas: ??
Johnny_Haas: why you shoot criuse speed rockets?

[afoofis]

Pretty cool dude... :D I like!

The only problem is: Many non-vanilla ships do not take missile damage, like the Battlestars. And I'm guessing that you intend to use these ships as anti-capship ships, and that is not going to work that well, since most capships are impervious to missiles.

If missile speeds were upgraded, however this kind of ship may serve as an interesting kind of anti-fighter ship.

This, however, depends on the general use of specialized ship roles and the cooperative use of fleets. i.e. Having a main battleship, bombers, VHFs, LFs, Destroyers, and your missile ship.

That's a shame. I was hoping to use it as a shield buster against cap ships. But oh well. Btw that is just a sketch i still need to know if this is a good idea and if i should go ahead. I was hoping to have a small wing that could fly in. The missile boat takes out the BS shields and bombers fly in and finish the job.

BTW that model took about 15 minutes to make

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[pchwang]

Shield busting still works. Missiles just do not damage the hull.

Except the only shield busting missile that is practical is the Paralyzer, which, altough in abundance on wrecks, is not sold on bases.

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[7:42:05 PM][6:51:36 PM] Igor (Smokey): btw terry
[6:51:48 PM] Terrance Cooper: Ye?
[6:52:00 PM] Igor (Smokey): nothin
[6:52:03 PM] Igor (Smokey): just sayin btw
[6:52:05 PM] Terrance Cooper: <_<

Johnny_Haas: you shot anti criuse speed rockets!!!
Johnny_Haas: but why????
Johnny_Haas: ??
Johnny_Haas: why you shoot criuse speed rockets?

[Nightfall]

It is sold on every base (the missile itself), the launcher is sold in a few places.

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov
The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor

[endlessvoid]

Firestalkers (Class 9) and Sidewinders (Class 10) are very good for dodgy fighters. Cannonballs (Class 9) are nice against Gunboats, and Sunslayers torpedoes can kill pretty much any capital ship with a few hits. Shame that possessing mutltiple missile launchers of the same type doesn't increase the number of missiles you can hold, since its capped at 70.:(

However, I have a question concerning the Paralizer, if you look closelly on it's description, you can read that frequent hits with it can disable a ship's engine and power. Anyone has seen this? If so, for how long does it "Paralizes" the foe ship? Does it works with Capital Ships?

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[pchwang]

Really?

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[7:42:05 PM][6:51:36 PM] Igor (Smokey): btw terry
[6:51:48 PM] Terrance Cooper: Ye?
[6:52:00 PM] Igor (Smokey): nothin
[6:52:03 PM] Igor (Smokey): just sayin btw
[6:52:05 PM] Terrance Cooper: <_<

Johnny_Haas: you shot anti criuse speed rockets!!!
Johnny_Haas: but why????
Johnny_Haas: ??
Johnny_Haas: why you shoot criuse speed rockets?

[Koolmo]

it just has the shieldbuster effect of craning power if the shields are down, far as I know. I don't use them, a coloda works much better for my tastes.

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[afoofis]

Erm no offense but you guys went totaly off topic.

I need to know if i sould work on this or not. It's gonna look different don't worry. Much cooler:)

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[Koolmo]

The problem is, this will be an 'Uber ship', not an 'uber weapon'. One ship should not be able to mount specific, very good weapons. I believe the idea of a missle ship was considered and rejected before. Its not fair to have 1 ship that has specific advanteges over others.

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