Flare Gun

[Kronos Alucard]

Hello everyone, I'll make this quick, I'm Kronos and I suggest a new item/tool, the flare gun.

This gun is for the pilot class, and its purpose is to signal their allies for aid, or to illuminate the sky to get a clearer visual on the enemy. When equipped (instead of range finder or other tool of that slot) you have the gun in your hand, simply left click and a red flare is shot up, a message will appear in the text of your team saying you signaled for aid, and if your team mates are not horrible people, they will come save you :3

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Hope this gets added, if you have any ideas or further purposes for this suggestions, post below and I will edit my post

[Omniraptor]

I'm pretty sure we already have a flare gun in the game.

[Crafeksterty]

And it will be easier to use the captain chat or text team chat for communication.

[Arturo Sanchez]

So basically a tool version of the actual gun.

Too OP for a pilot to use and noobs won't learn to spot if they see a gun as a pilot option. In anycase, a gun of any kind in the personal tools of any class defeats the whole philosophy of the game.

Which is entirely focused on airship dog fighting.


As for a means of communication... guns has so many channels of communication that anymore is redundant.

[Kronos Alucard]

I could always use it to burn my face off ;-;

but yeah I see the problem.... oh well, worth a shot (pun kinda intended)

[Count Plipster]

Actually, my friends and I had this same idea a while ago. I think it would be a cool implementation. And I personally don't think it really takes away from the dogfighting because even though it's a flare "gun" it's not a gun like an offensive weapon. 

[Alistair MacBain]

And I would imagine that this tool would be brought by a crewman instead of a pilot.