Make small arms penetrate shields

[Megacrafter127]

No one is going to eat a Titan with something doing two damage a second. That would take days.

You will be surprised how much time people have.

 

[Zeno9141]

You will be surprised how much time people have.

And how little life they have.

 

[Snk]

It'd be easier to use a ship. No one is going to take 3 days before they do that, I don't care if they're a fedora wearing neck beard living in their moms basement. They'd die of thirst, or you'd log on. Besides, we could make hulls invincible.

 

[Zeno9141]

It'd be easier to use a ship. No one is going to take 3 days before they do that, I don't care if they're a fedora wearing neck beard living in their moms basement. They'd die of thirst, or you'd log on. Besides, we could make hulls invincible.

Then people would exploit by spamming hulls in their hallways and removing them when they get out.

 

[Snk]

Then people would exploit by spamming hulls in their hallways and removing them when they get out.

Eh. These arguments are circular. There are a million ways to grief and defend your ship. Honestly, no one is going to eat a ship with a pistol. He'll, if someone is willing to put days into it, they deserve the ship.

 

[Mariux]

Am I the only one around here getting real tired of those threads sayin' that this and that should ignore shields blah blah blah... Seriously. That's what shields are for in the first place. To protect ships in combat from other ships AND prevent random noobs from randomly damaging your ship (and possibly destroying it with all it's cargo). And for boarding... it would only encourage teamwork if there were no weapons that would ignore shields, for example, one player would keep target ship's shields down while the other one will do the boarding. Because boarding is SUPPOSED to be hard. You get a darned ship if you succeed!

 

[Snk]

Boarding isn't hard, it's impossible and pointless. You can't take down anything with a pistol. They're useless.

 

[Mariux]

Boarding isn't hard, it's impossible and pointless. You can't take down anything with a pistol. They're useless.

Then why make it damage hull in the first place?

 

[Snk]

I meant, it is useless because of shields.

 

[FunnyBunny14]

To all of you who like shields taking all the damage: why would you want that? Especially when it comes to collision damage, that should not let shields take the damage.

 

[NeonSturm]

I want things to penetrate shields if:

You pay for ammo

dis-integrators, though they could do reduced damage to shielded targets
ramming other ships​

If shields get below 10 or 25% and the weapon relies on constantly dropped shields (hand-gun, power drain) to make damage (with support) more reliable.​