A Trick Idea

posted on June 24th, 2004, 5:47 pm

if you make a ship have the abilaty to reles a plama trale be hind the ship.
so ships folowing it will have damege dun to thare enages.

posted on June 24th, 2004, 5:54 pm

And what happens when someone used 20 odd starships and renders your defense force immoble? Not very fair or fun.

posted on June 24th, 2004, 5:55 pm

the whay this can be used is if you have a fleet being folowed by anuther fleet you can disabul the enamy fleet and atact thare bace

posted on June 24th, 2004, 5:57 pm

by ajusting haw log it releses for you can make it as afetive as you wontet.

and haw much of a afect it has on ships that or ferther a whay.

[Lt.Cdr.White]

posted on June 24th, 2004, 6:07 pm

Last edited by Lt.Cdr.White on June 24th, 2004, 7:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Do you write that way on purpose?

It's really difficult (not impossible, but difficult) to get the sense of your posts.

If you don't write that way on purpose, I didn't say anything.



However, plasma trails should be no problem for a starship.

And what is more: Releasing enough plasma (i.e. superheated gas) to damage a shielded starship would render your ship immobile, because no plasma for the engines is left.

I'm leaving out the problem, that we have no real warp in FO. That would be another discussion. We have to assume that fleets go at warp 'symbolically', as distances in FO are not to scale.

(Sorry for writing so much nonsense, I catched a cold. )

posted on June 24th, 2004, 6:12 pm

ya i am a bad speller i am t lasy to use spell chek i gess i shood start agin.

posted on June 24th, 2004, 7:10 pm

I don't mind plasma trails if a ship is damaged, even looks cool, but not sure if I like it as a weapon.

posted on June 25th, 2004, 6:39 pm

Well i guess that 8472 nebula creation weapon could be easily modified to do this....

posted on June 25th, 2004, 7:22 pm

Mabye.

posted on June 25th, 2004, 7:36 pm

plasma discharge.... hmmm isn't that the same effect as engine overload from the steamrunner in A2 version?

that can be used in the game. But i don't think it would balance the game out well.

posted on June 26th, 2004, 1:39 pm

Plasma and smoke already comes out of ships when they become derelicts, if we can modify it so it comes out when a ship is damaged too...

posted on June 28th, 2004, 10:02 pm

Perhaps. It might be possible, i'm not sure.

posted on June 29th, 2004, 4:06 pm

hmmm good idea

posted on June 29th, 2004, 7:03 pm

As I said above:

What do starships have shields for? That little bit of heated gas shouldn't be so much of a problem. The attacker would have to release so much plasma that the warp drive would fail.

posted on June 29th, 2004, 11:20 pm

What about collecting some gas with your buzzard (think thats it) collectors, now that would be neat and drop it in the enemys face and BLAMO.