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Astral Viper
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|  Posted: 2003-12-12 09:03
I see people talking about proximity fuses for mines but it would also be a good idea for the other projectile weapons too like missles and torpedos. Much like the missles and torpedos of today. Or is it just me wondering why weapon tech jumped back a little after so many years 
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Tiffy Rando
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| Posted: 2003-12-12 09:10
... good thought, except it would eliminate manual detonation, which would take a certain element away from the game... although proximity fuses on artillery type weapons such as missiles would be nice... or a pain in the arse
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Astral Viper
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| Posted: 2003-12-12 09:22
Im not tryinh to remove an aspect of the game im jut being relistic. What would u do if you were a weapons designer? How would u make your weapons do the most damge even if they missed?
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Rocki
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| Posted: 2003-12-12 09:36
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On 2003-12-12 09:22, Astral_Viper wrote:
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erm yes you are... manual detonation...
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manually detonate them? not that many weapons have proximity sensors to my knowledge...
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Akuma
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| Posted: 2003-12-12 10:32
I say leave them the way they are. It's the future after all..
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Pope
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From: World of tomorrow
| Posted: 2003-12-12 11:01
F should just implement a sandbox cpu with sensor and drive i/o for each projectile so we can write our own smart weapons within the limits of made-available cpu power, sensorics and engine capabilities.
that would certainly get rid of this 2-week interval reanimated topic.
PS: im afraid we might get "pcms need better long-range scanners" whine posts then instead, dang.
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Bobamelius
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| Posted: 2003-12-12 14:08
It makes perfect sense, we have these sort of things Now for Pete's sake, why not 200+ years in the future?
But, it does take away manual detonation, a very important aspect of the game and the only way the otherwise nigh-invincible UGTO Heavy Supply armed with Sabots (my favorite ship) can survive against an AC with AM torps.
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Tbone
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| Posted: 2003-12-12 15:41
On torpedoes: no
On IT missiles and mines: yes
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Astral Viper
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| Posted: 2003-12-12 17:01
its just a suggestion no need to get upset every good idea has wrinkles. So the torps are beter with out fuses im not upset but i think it would an especialy good idead for the missles since not a single surface to air or air to air missle that i know of in our arsenal (US) is designed to blow on impact they all have prox fuses.
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Antdizzle
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| Posted: 2003-12-12 17:09
proxys only on mines (its anooying when ya got to blow them ALL
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Demorian
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| Posted: 2003-12-12 17:25
How about a compromise?
Allow manual detonation of energy weapons like torpedoes, while entirely mechanical missile weapons will detonate automatically as they pass by a ship.
Would suck for playing "Dance of the Sugarplum Scouts" though... so much fun down the drain.
-Dem
PS. As for mines? Please. They're overpowered already, do you really want to increase the risks to your ship when you could instead manage to impressively dodge an invisible minefield?
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Tbone
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| Posted: 2003-12-12 19:14
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As for mines? Please. They're overpowered already, do you really want to increase the risks to your ship when you could instead manage to impressively dodge an invisible minefield?
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Well, with mines as they are now, no I wouldn't want that. When mines are rebalanced and player suggestions can be taken once again, we will see.
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| Posted: 2003-12-12 20:48
Well, this isnt about the proximity stuff, but i think switch brought up a good point. It would be nice if we could detonate the mines of our choice, not all of them at once
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SmellyTerror
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From: Canberra
| Posted: 2003-12-13 01:38
Regarding realism: if this was realistic then we'd be programming and firing drones at ranges that meant we'd never even see the enemy. It'd be a battle of wits, submarine-warfare style. Our "view" would consist of numbers and graphs and statistics. And although it's possible that someone could make that game in a way that was fun (give me another ten years), it just wouldn't be Darkspace.
Realism is never an argument for a change to a game like this - fun is all that counts.
...and it's fun to dodge missiles!
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Teager
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| Posted: 2003-12-13 06:10
This one get's a clear "no" from me.
Torpedos: As already mentioned, it would not need any skill anymore to use them. Just hammering the Spacebar is imho not really skill.
Missiles: you could not distract the planetary defense with smaller ships anymore because they would take damage slthough the missiles miss them.
The only thing which might be nice are proximity mines. Although it makes things alot easier for offensive miners.
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