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Call for Gunner Ammo Ideas
Richard LeMoon:
A little outside of what is possible, but...
Optical Shot
Highly specialized
Single shot
+80% lift
+200% range
-70% Velocity
-90% damage
Shots never arm.
Gunner gets bullet cam view with view rotation.
Can spot enemies from bullet view.
These shells are hollowed out and the internals replaces with optics and transmitters. Allows you to shoot a single, slow-moving, straight-flying bullet that gives the gunner a safe view from a distance. The rotational fisheye lens camera lets the gunner look sideways for a unique ability to see around corners. They can also spot enemies by clicking like the spyglass.
Benefits to engineer: Low to null
Benefits to pilot: moderate
Benefits to gunner: High
Verbose Mode:
That is a surprisingly cool idea, but might be better suited to a unique gun than a ammunition type.
Saull:
I would very much like to have a discussion of proximity ammo and it's place in GoI's future. If I had my way it'd function closer to loch ammo as a mid/high risk high reward way of turning around 2v1 scenarios when enemy ships are flying real close to each other. Sorta like how grenades work in modern FPS games. But that I suppose is a thread for the Dev app forum
Milevan Faent:
--- Quote from: Richard LeMoon on June 06, 2014, 10:14:54 pm ---A little outside of what is possible, but...
Optical Shot
Highly specialized
Single shot
+80% lift
+200% range
-70% Velocity
-90% damage
Shots never arm.
Gunner gets bullet cam view with view rotation.
Can spot enemies from bullet view.
These shells are hollowed out and the internals replaces with optics and transmitters. Allows you to shoot a single, slow-moving, straight-flying bullet that gives the gunner a safe view from a distance. The rotational fisheye lens camera lets the gunner look sideways for a unique ability to see around corners. They can also spot enemies by clicking like the spyglass.
Benefits to engineer: Low to null
Benefits to pilot: moderate
Benefits to gunner: High
--- End quote ---
While kind of cool in concept, it doesn't make sense as an ammo (as others have said). Also, this kind of technology seems kind of out of place in GoIO.
macmacnick:
Milivan, GOiO is set as if WWI extended for decades beyond 1918, and the world's desolation is a result of this. The camera was invented in the 19th Century, and television sets became commercially available in the 1920s. That is not to say it was invented in the 1920s, but became commercially viable then. Most likely, the early models would have been restricted to government use, in the GoIO setting, or they might not have invented the television, and instead use the precursory Scanning Disk, which was invented around 1824, which was also a component in the early Mechanical Television sets. So, yes, the technology would be in-place.
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