There should be a kamikaze ship. Obviously, it would be for tactical usage in group operations. Or just for fun.
It should do like 10000 damage and have a radius of 200m.

*imagines a queen hunt with only kamikaze ships*
LOL

You think what people did with /explode before it had a timer? :)

As for your suggestion, too much damage with huge splash wouldn't be very good i'd say.

Hmm...you could only give the ship really litte amour, like 500 maybe :p or even...100!

One ship with no /explode timer and almost no armor? Could be fun...

That's practically a remotely guided missile.
Hmm a cap ship weapon? (assuming you can respawn in one)

we already have kamikaze ships...any ship I happen to be flying on the BS mission that runs out of ammo and is about to blow anyways.

I know all ships can have this functionality as a last desperate resort...
But this ship would be specially designed for that.
The damage of the explosion would be greater than the explosion of a normal ship.

Or.....instead of a kamikaze ship, how about a kamikaze wep...
It would have to be large port. One click and your ship goes BOOM with an awesome explosion, larger than we you get killed.
How about that?

I can hear the complaints rolling in already: "He ruined our event!", "That's cheap!", and so on.

it's not cheap if there's material cost to it. making a ship go boom usually means expensive ships.

i doubt a free gov bus could pursue anything for self-disembowelment.

use chaos swarms, target your self, go faster than the speed of the swarms, fire them, and then let them catch you. boom.

I meant "cheap" as in tactics. Regarding cost, if the ship costs a few million credits, I'm for it. Less than a million will have little financial effect on many players.

i meant cheap as in tactic too.

but if one's cheapness has a cost to it, they negate.

(or do they? i dont know but at least there's a retribution somewhere)

it shouldnt be worth that much. I mean, every ship costs less than 30k, most expensive being the XC. (Im not sure though, is it 17k or 27k?)
Anyways, this tactic would mean that that there would also be one less player in the battle when used. So, its not really a cheap tactic.
This ship could have very low armor to make it very fast. So, it would be easier to destroy, though harder to hit. A decent number of players would be able to destroy it before it go any closer, so the pilot would have to use more sneaky tactics to get to someone.

It would be like those zerg flying suicidal things from starcraft (dont remember their name)
They were easy to kill, and did decent damage.

so a flagship fragship.

I don't like this idea.

i do :)

bacily...powerful boom when you crash, fast speeds....problem is that just 1 hit from anything makes it go boom :p

Even a concusion mine could destroy it :D

hell if your desperate give it 1 amour :p

Concussion mines do no direct damage.

I still don't like the idea.

back in alpha, there was an exploit with the ragnarok, lightning mines and avalons.

basically, the avalon would crash into the l-mine, instantly detonating when you fire it. everybody hated it, thought it was cheap, and ostracized the pilots who used it- even though it basically destroyed the ship that used it.

if you're suggesting we bring back the "insta-nuke" of a kamikaze ship, it's just a bad idea- avalon torpedos were removed with that as the main reason, but they were considerably stronger (350m splash, 12k damage) than this suggestion... and still failed to be of any use (not killing targets outside a 150m range or so) in the majority of situations whilst being a royal pain in the ass.

maybe when the game grows a bit more.

0.o

Uncle.

Efffing.

Dave!