Burst Fire Torpedo Idea

posted on May 24th, 2005, 9:45 pm

It CAN still be a passive special ability not costing any spec energy, like it is now. But im not for all this burst thing, I mean every race has that, its just photon burst is more known because the feds are always the focus point of a ST show/movie :S

posted on May 24th, 2005, 11:51 pm

That was the point hypercube...

posted on May 25th, 2005, 11:15 am

okay than ^_^

[Cpt Ryan]

posted on May 25th, 2005, 12:17 pm

Last edited by Cpt Ryan on May 25th, 2005, 12:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.

of course it doesn't have to cost special energy but i believe it should (if even a little) as that woul cause everyone to use their class specific specials much more sparingly ^_^
you can just adjust it yourself with odf editing. (would be easier than making the premonition available in v2)

posted on May 25th, 2005, 2:19 pm

Actually every race does NOT have burst fire tubes ... the Klingons have triple fire I think and that's it. Even the Federation pulse fire tubes are superior to the other races' technologies. The burst fires that were introduced on the Ambassador (thank you, Praetor) and made famous on the Enterprise - D and Galaxies were easily the most powerful individual weapons systems in the galaxy.

These type 3 burst systems (and type 4 on the Sovereign) are eclipsed only by the radid-fire turret on the ventral side of the Sovereign saucer, which can basically burst fire its entire magazine (something like 200 quantums) at a rate of 4 per second.

Obviously this wouldn't work too well in FO because one Sovereign would kill all comers, but speaking from Canon a Sovereign would kill pretty much everything, that's what it's designed to do

posted on May 25th, 2005, 3:42 pm

most powerful in the galaxy... no perhaps most powerful out of anything the rommies, klingons and cardies had at the time... but what about the borg cube's weapons. :tank:
there were ambassadors at Wolf 359.. many of them but they ended up like everything else when i first submitted this idea it was for the feds, i said other race weapon ideas to come....

heres one for the borg remember first contact? the cube often fired some sort of pulse at the fed ships (destroying a saber and heavily damaging a steamrunner)
that instead of a burst of gravimetric torps perhaps???

for the klingons you said they have a triple fire tube. well i think its safe to assume that would fire 3 at a time ...no? so for the proposed fed photon burst of 3 torps it would be the same except for textures.

posted on May 25th, 2005, 4:43 pm

alaxies were easily the most powerful individual weapons systems in the galaxy.

Oh plizz



About the burst, Rommies have it, Borg have it, Dominion has it, and as u said Klingons have a burst of 3 photons, thats about every race in FO


So all races have it, I am sure of it. Maybe not a burst of 200 quantums as u said sovie has, but a burst nontheless

Im for the idea that we leave this burst only for the quantums as it is ok now I think

posted on May 25th, 2005, 5:32 pm

I know romulans have burst fire tubes too, but not for their plasma torpedos I don't think.

posted on May 25th, 2005, 7:53 pm

i say torpedo bursts all round