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Trident Heavy Cannon

Aug 30, 2015 RoboticMechanicalJeb link
For all the Trident pilots who want a decent Capship weapon

Stats

Damage per shot: 10500 (or 155000, whatever you want)
Velocity: 210
Delay: 1.2 secs -----> Edit: 0.15s
Mass: 30000kg (or what fits a Trident)
Grid: 25
Cost: 100,000c
Auto Aim: Excellent

Tell me what you want adjusted

Note: this is an L-Port weapon
Note #2: Edited to satisfy Capt'N
Aug 30, 2015 Death Fluffy link
Anything for a trident should be 20-25+ grid and weigh at least 50,000kg

I assume you mean this to be for the large port rather than a turret, since there are already pretty good turret weapons. As such, it should also have outstanding auto aim and range due to the poor maneuverability of the trident.

Personally, I'd like something like a rail weapon rather than energy with extremely high impact damage, quick delay and high capacity.
Aug 30, 2015 vskye link
-1.

Seems like you want a one shot per ship kill type weapon. Suggest you go grab a EC-89 with some avalons and park it 50m away from a roid and shoot said roid. After you get done exploding a bunch of times maybe your head will clear up.
Aug 30, 2015 Death Fluffy link
I want a weapon I can attack other tridents with. It should be absurd for a small ship to face off against a trident when you have the entire length and back to attack from
Aug 30, 2015 bojansplash link
We need beam cannons back - make them L port trident exclusive.
Aug 30, 2015 Pizzasgood link
-1. Just make the Teradon guns available.
Aug 30, 2015 RoboticMechanicalJeb link
@Rin
Yeah, I want the TeraGuns too
@bojan
Beem Cannons....Me want
@Capt
Want me to reduce dmg per shot?
Aug 31, 2015 biretak link
reduce the damage to 8000 and give it 25 shots with no more aim than an advanced railgun with deathfluffy's grid and weight. And, let it reload a bit faster than the railguns, but still require a trigger pull per shot. It's be nice if you could get some quick shots fired in succession, but still need a teammate to take down the shields on an enemy trident.

Make a second large port version for smaller ships with four pre-loaded quick firing shots @5000 damage just for fun :)
Aug 31, 2015 CrazySpence link
210 is insanely fast

Make is slow so fighters only can be killed by it by being idiots but likely to hit a dent with a long delay!

It should be like the Phase Transit Cannon from the TCS Concordia!

http://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/Phase-Transit_Cannon
Aug 31, 2015 bojansplash link
Old beam cannons dealt 10k damage per hit, with a range of 2000m.
As energy based weapon, beam cannons do not use ammo.
Their shots look cool and they have a really fun zzzzzing sound.

I don't exactly remember the original stats but Inc knows, he made them. :)

Beam cannons were originally turreted weapons on HACs so I suppose we could have them as a kind of a gat 2 firing cone L port trident weapon.

Having limited shots on a cap ship is a bit far fetched.
Cap ships have armories and can hold infinite ammo for their guns.
Aug 31, 2015 CrazySpence link
The beam cannons had crazy auto aim which makes me hate them. Every thing should be dodge able somehow.

If the beam cannon is straight firing (b5 style) then i'm down with it
Aug 31, 2015 bojansplash link
@CS

If we want a cap weapon to attack other tridents then straight firing should do.

I think that some sort of a small targeting cone should be present, not enough to track a light fighter but maybe a slight chance to catch some heavy missile rag.
Aug 31, 2015 Dr. Lecter link
I don't exactly remember the original stats but Inc knows, he made them. :)

Don't be so sure, they apparently didn't keep track of a number of different things they made and changed/removed over the years. Pre-speed cap ship stats, for one.
Sep 01, 2015 CrazySpence link
beam cannons still exist, go to a newb sector as not a newb heh