hi people! so I saw someone messing with explosives with the new continuous momentum thing on a server im on sometimes and I was wondering if you could make torpedoes from this, after some messing around with several deaths from premature detonations (ahem) i found some basic rules regarding this idea.
I found that;
- torps 'misfire' at speeds greater than 20 and do eventually lose all momentum, so you need to be close and fairly slow
- they dont go through shields - meaning if you shield your ship the 'misfire' thing shouldnt effect you much, possibly throw you around a bit.
- a standard size torp (for me 6 high with all sides covered with another coloumn of 6) goes through 5-6 layers of hardened hull and 8-9 layers of normal hull. this doesnt seem to change unless you increase the amount of explosive blocks massivly - such as making the torp stupidly large.
- torps only work if the core you use to make them has all the explosive blocks on top of it so when you dock they face the right way - because when you dock the bottom of the core attaches to the dock; incase people didnt know.
Im still messing with this idea - and im sure others have had such ideas in the past and I am in no way trying to bellitle or claim credit, im just trying to get ideas out there for the people and fire torps at ships!
what have people found when experimenting with this concept? feel free to share if you found anything i missed or if something i said worked differently or better for you... and try to be civil.
I found that;
- torps 'misfire' at speeds greater than 20 and do eventually lose all momentum, so you need to be close and fairly slow
- they dont go through shields - meaning if you shield your ship the 'misfire' thing shouldnt effect you much, possibly throw you around a bit.
- a standard size torp (for me 6 high with all sides covered with another coloumn of 6) goes through 5-6 layers of hardened hull and 8-9 layers of normal hull. this doesnt seem to change unless you increase the amount of explosive blocks massivly - such as making the torp stupidly large.
- torps only work if the core you use to make them has all the explosive blocks on top of it so when you dock they face the right way - because when you dock the bottom of the core attaches to the dock; incase people didnt know.
Im still messing with this idea - and im sure others have had such ideas in the past and I am in no way trying to bellitle or claim credit, im just trying to get ideas out there for the people and fire torps at ships!
what have people found when experimenting with this concept? feel free to share if you found anything i missed or if something i said worked differently or better for you... and try to be civil.
