As noted in this thread, warheads are used for a large variety of things other than griefing (ramming ships with a cheap torpedo ship). They can be used as the standard torpedo (torpedo launcher), but I have used them in several other ways previously.
I feel like if someone kills them self in order to get a ship, they should get the ship.
Trust me, griefing isn't an option with a torpedo bomber.
Your average griefer has the time and patience to make a cloaker, put some warheads on it, and punch some holes in someone's shiny new ship.
It's players like that who deserve to be smashed with the banhammer. If you're going to use a strategy like that to actually gain some thing from the attack, then fine, all's fair in love and war. It's the ones who laugh about it and log off to avoid being hunted down and properly blown to hell and back that deserve to be violated with an unlubricated pineapple.
I couldn't say it better myself; personally, I believe that is a server's problem, not a game problem...
I disagree. Warheads being buffed a bit is fine. Through my own testing, as well as Dr. Whammy's, I have discovered that buffed warheads mounted on a ship are at times MORE dangerous to the parent ship than the target. Through sp testing against an alpha pirate station at 50,000 damage a warhead, I found the torpedoes were targeted while still in the magazines and firing tube. The front half of my stealthed torp bomber prototype was vaporized when I tried a dive bombing attack on a turret on said station. With cloakers/jammers disabled on the torpedoes, it's fair. If a player wants to kill himself using a stealthed kamakaze, then he should be able to. But we also have scanners, so...... Warheads should be usable, regardless of grief ability. If every griefer tool was removed, we would have salvagers, and no combat. Complaining about a useful gameplay feature because it might lead to griefing is like saying you can't eat that pizza because I'm on a diet. I very much doubt that warheads will at anytime be a griefers go-to weapon due to the inherit dangers of having a bomb on a ship. Look at the torpedo thread in general discussion to see 500,000 damage warhead impacts. Then imagine that inside your ship, potentially many detonations as your magazine also blows.
This is why I setup a minelayer to drop mines far enough apart so they don't kill each other.
Here's a link to a minefield I made a while back. It cloaks and is quite deadly. Although I will admit that it could be used easily for greifing...
