A Trick Idea

posted on June 30th, 2004, 11:12 am

... called the "Riker Maneuver". Good idea. Perhaps something you could get by choosing a special avatar?

posted on June 30th, 2004, 3:28 pm

Didn't he suck in explosive gas into his ship and release it, not warp plasma? I thought the Riker manuver was when you go to warp right before torpedos hit to make it look like you exploded.

posted on June 30th, 2004, 8:37 pm

No, that was (if any) the Picard maneuver.

posted on June 30th, 2004, 8:48 pm

The Riker Maneuver is where you take a explosive gas in a nebula into the collectors in the naccel. Then release it infront of an emeny and fire a torpedo into it. Venting warp pasma is usually done to cool down the warp core during an overload. I think you could do the samething with the Riker Maneuver with warp pasma instead. But it would probably damage the engines. It would be interesting to see in Fleet Ops.

posted on June 30th, 2004, 10:47 pm

First is getting a nebula with explosive gas, second the ability to let starships suck it up and third trying to find a place to release it and blamo!

posted on July 2nd, 2004, 6:55 pm

Well if youre doing this with warp plasma you wont need a nebula to suck it in from. Ships make warp plasma.

posted on July 2nd, 2004, 7:03 pm

Yeah but without warp plasma your ship isn't going anywhere quickly and this riker manuver involved explosive gas from the briar patch.

posted on July 3rd, 2004, 5:13 am

What yall are thinking of is a latinum bomb. (It was a mod for A2) It was were you take this ship and mine latinum, then you take it to an enemy's base and detenate it before your enemy sees the ship. But this would be a nice little asset to FleetOps.

posted on July 3rd, 2004, 11:56 pm

Ahh yes, this is real easy to do in a mod too, i've seen the coding.... Lol not bad.

posted on July 4th, 2004, 9:27 am

i dont like that bombing thing, specially cause latinum is not that type of gas that explodes that damn way like in that mod... i dont want to say i hate that tactic, but its kinda like that... beside that it just would make sense for the romulans or ppl of the marquee...

btw destroyin a warpcore would do greater damage, i think...

posted on July 9th, 2004, 5:46 pm

Releasing yoru warp core and blowing it up would be like throwing the batteries out of a toy car and throwing them into a fire.. now, you could vent plasma and ignite it once the ship passes through, boomo. If you vent it whilst extremelyyyy hot, you'll fuse your warp coils *watched the tng episode yesterday* And warp isnt used in fo, so it doesnt matter

posted on July 9th, 2004, 6:17 pm

Uh you can't vent warp plasma or no warp, you need explosive gas from a nebula... I just perfer a few Photons anyway, tryign to use gas would be too time consuming and not have the best results.