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allocaterallocater Member Posts: 289 Arc User
So when you activate a mine launcher it beams mines around your target. Then they take x sec to activate.

Generally it should be equal 'time-to-impact' as torpedos.

torpedos: launch, flight time x seconds, hit
mines: beam, activate time x seconds, boom

Of course all mines would get a 360? arc. So you can equip them in the back, but beam mines to targets in front of you.

Then maybe they will get used more.
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Can't beam stuff while your shields are up?
  • foundrelicfoundrelic Member Posts: 1,380 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Can't beam stuff while your shields are up?

    But enemy boarding parties can fly through your shields and the borg can beam through them with no problem at all.
  • ajstonerajstoner Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Meh...

    However, if you have something like this, dropping your shields for a couple of seconds while using them would be a good way to balance it out. I would also suggest they be limited to 5km which is the game's established transporter range.
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  • allocaterallocater Member Posts: 289 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Well I hope by now they have figured out how to beam stuff with your own shield frequency! :cool:
  • dma1986dma1986 Member Posts: 541 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Instead of transporters, how about a torpedo launcher that flies a few KM, then splits into mines. However, unlike the Breen cluster torp these don't need a locked target, and even if you had a target it wouldn't follow it. It would just fire straight off the front (or back, depending where you fitted it) of your ship, and then disperse at the appropriate distance. They could even be affected by Dispersal Pattern X.

    They exist in canon as Eagle's Claw Antimatter Mine torpedoes, used by the B'rel BoP (Klingon BoP Haynes manual, pages 44-45), and as the book's licensed by CBS getting permission should be simple enough.
  • ajstonerajstoner Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    That is a pretty good idea on how to handle them actually. It is also not unlike actual mine spreaders that have been built in RL.
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  • hanoverhanover Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I want a "cluster torpedo" version of every warhead types. If not that, then just do it for Quantums.


    Quantum Cluster Torpedoes. Just think about that for a second. Giggity. :cool:
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    allocater wrote: »
    Well I hope by now they have figured out how to beam stuff with your own shield frequency! :cool:

    Except how many times have we seen the Away Team trapped on a planet's surface, and can't be beamed out because the Enterprise is under fire and can't drop its shields?
  • adamkafeiadamkafei Member Posts: 6,539 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Except how many times have we seen the Away Team trapped on a planet's surface, and can't be beamed out because the Enterprise is under fire and can't drop its shields?

    Their point still stands, if you know the shield frequencies there is nothing stopping you beaming stuff through, their transporter operators must have been ensigns...
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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Canon Trek has had Federation ships beaming through their own shields shields at least since Voyager.

    And you do know what the Tactical/Engineering/Science Team abilities are, right? They can be used with shields up, including beaming them to other friendly ships also with shields up. So in STO you can definitely beam through not only your own shields but also allied ships' shields.

    Beaming mines wouldn't be all that useful against moving targets, though. The target would be out of range before the mines activate. Still, a nice option to have as a boff ability. Maybe engineering?
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