Graviton Beam

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 12:31 am

Okay, I was thinking one day, "you know, the Phalanx really is useless (hance why my guide is currently unfinished Sorry about that, Dominous), so wh ynot give it a cool new weapon?" So here's an idea that I've had since 4th Grade: A Graviton Beam! What it does is extreme damage to any ship or station, and deals double damage to Borg Cubes. 50% Health loss for anything but Cubes (and huge ships like Dreadnoughts), and destroys a Cube and other vessels like it instantly. However, it kills the weapon system, cost 1000 Dilithium, 3000 Tritanium, and 300 Supply to research, and costs 500 Dilithium, 100 Tritanium, and 10 Supply to use. Give the your thoughts.

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 9:15 am

I like the idea but what you are implying' is that it's a super weapon... if you ask me I think something like that should be saved for veteran ships only... but a scaled down version would be cool, or something mixed tech.... eh... I just don't see a weapon of that scale being practical... but I do think it could be a feature for late in the game... there isn't much really going on late in the game anymore ( especially on big maps )

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 9:58 am

1) Please tell me about the properties of gravitons and why the result should be a weapon of you proposed properties. If you are unable to explain that conclusivly I must say that it won't fit into the believable style of FO.

2) It's like a supereapon, thus most likly not to be accepted by the mods.

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 10:12 am

Graviton, Tachyon, Omegatronic, whatever. The name is not important for a concept.
I think it is interesting, but not as the 1hit=kill weapon.
I say a very strong weapon that uses a cooldown timer that disables the phaser cannon for a time after.

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 10:21 am

What about a weapon like that ridiculous cannon used by the Victory, from Babylon 5. Strong enough to one-shot most ships, but completly shutting down the ship for a time.

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 10:54 am

Omegatronic

Hey, I like this ... it is not possesed by any realistic properties so you can propose anything you want then.

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 11:03 am

What about a weapon like that ridiculous cannon used by the Victory, from Babylon 5. Strong enough to one-shot most ships, but completly shutting down the ship for a time.

Would fit for the phalanx

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 12:17 pm

I was thinking of a Heavy Quantum Beam. What about that, a huge Quantum Beam that can even devistate a cube!

Cool down time = 80 seconds

Side effects include: 10% chance of damageing the firing ship itself, due to large energy consumption regular weapons have a slow recharge rate.

Special abilities granted: Core Boost, allows an increase of the power available for standard weapons. Consumes 1 supply every 2 seconds and 1 Dilitium every 3 seconds.

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 12:52 pm

I'm in stong favour for a weapon that increses power, the bugger the target is, but I'm clearly against a one hit one kill weapon. A phalanx is much cheaper than a cube and would be able to kill several cubes in tis lifetime, whereas it would be diffikult the other way round. The current suggestion is completly unbalanced.

Further don't mess around with common terms like little kids. Even my pocket laser is a quantum beam, thus the name implies it to be a heavy laser, which is definitive not what you've got in mind. What a bout a pure AM beam, that is emitted directly from the fuel tanks? This would be even realistic! If you insist on a phantasy-tool call it Verteron-Beam ... sunspace turbulences that causes the ship to get instable, as the metrics beyond the ship get crumbled.

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 12:55 pm

Okay... how about an artificial solar flare that is launched at a target? Or is that too much like a Rom weapon?

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 1:01 pm

Well, a sun flare is nothing more than a widespread plasma beam ... quite the same as a non dense plasma-disruptor. This would have quite the same properties as the norways plasma coil, and area of effect damaging weapon. I don't think this is what you are looking for. 

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 1:27 pm

What would be cool is a super weapon with single shot (expensive) and devastating effects, BUT kills your shields...

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 1:41 pm

What do you mean by "BUT kills your shields..." ??

What about a chain of ultra high velocity torpedos (much more than the common ~3km/s we see in FO), that penetrates shieds, and hull and directly advance towards the the AM tanks ... BOOM!!! For balancing reasons, a ship carrying that weapon should at least cost as much as a starbase to be halfway balanced compared to a cube.

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 2:35 pm

Here are some thoughts:

1. The Phalanx is NOT useless, it has high stats, long range, is reasonably fast and those magnan phasers blast whole fleets to hell, at least that was my observation.

2. Please, kills Borg Cubes instantly, i don´t like it, given how much a borg player has to spend on them, a one hit kill weapon is out of the question for me.

3. Graviton Beams hm ? The borg use them, so maybe a special weapon or standard weapon with some twist to it could be on a borg mixed tech vessel, that sounds nice to me.

Otherwise i would like to say that it´s always nice to think about possible improvements, so don´t take my dislike personal. 

[Tyrus]

posted on June 23rd, 2009, 2:52 pm

Last edited by Tyrus on June 23rd, 2009, 2:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.

This sounds quite like the "photonic cannon" the phantasy-über-weapon the holodoc invented...