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be nice to see a set of 180 torpedos in several varieties
shadowheartt
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like 180 degree plasma, photon, tricolbalt, and transphasic can be made as c-store or dilithium store purchase
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Otherwise, I disagree. I mean, why stop at 180? Why not ask for a torpedo turret?
personally i hope they will never increase the torp's arc.
That wouldnt work with plasmas, though, which have no onboard guidance systems (considering they're just a ball of energy).
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There's already two. (Rapid-Fire Missile Launcher and the Regent's Wide-Angle Quantum Torpedo)
Personally, if more 180-degree torpedoes were released, I'd want them to be linked to owning the Regent, much like the Andorian Phasers are. Or as Elite Fleet Torpedoes.
Admiral Dananra Lekall - R.R.W. Teverresh, Deihu-class Warbird
General J'Kar son of K'tsulan - I.K.S. Dlahath, Vo'devwl-class Carrier
Deep Space 9 has rapid firing torpedo turrets. However, torpedo tubes with better than 90' should be restricted to BIG ships, as the reason only DS9 has them is because they are probably star base level weapons. Starbases in this game may be wimps, but in Star Fleet command games star bases have phasers a whole class above starships.
Wide-arc standard torpedo launcher for basic supporting damage, narrow-arc heavy torpedo launcher for precision strikes.
Short of putting in a ridiculous cooldown, I don't see a way to make those balanced. Even then, correctly setup torpedo boats would be absolutely monstrous. 10k + salvos every second? Yes please.
10K every other second. Don't forget GCD on torp. So, about 5K per second, not forgetting that this is kinetic damage which is only effective on hulls. As opposed to the sustained 6 or 7K per second from antiproton dual heavy cannon boats, which is effective on both shields and hulls...
If you're only getting 5k per hit form your torpedoes, you're doing it very, very wrong. My personal record on a single photon is 72k. My torpedo setup can fire those every 1.5 seconds (the torpedo GCD). Now imagine what a ship that can fire two of those every torpedo GCD, while still putting out more than enough energy damage to batter down shields can do.
In short, you thought trico bombing was nuts? This is just an invitation for ridiculousness.
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What you're asking here is to make it common, not special.
It might be worth using if it had the lowest possible firing priority so real torpedoes got to go first, and if it was either buffed so that tactical abilities gave good results with it, or removed from the list of weapons that High Yield/Spread work with.
(More hilariously, make the Ferengi launcher respond to Cannon abilities)
As to torpedo priority, I've found (not 100% mind you) that the weapons on the left-most slots have higher priority over the right-most slots. Put your zero downtime torpedo on the far right and you generally have it only going off when your other torps are on cd.
In fact the Ferengi missile works great as a chaser on slow reload torp builds since it can still proc PWOs (like the Omega should, but Cryptic couldn't debug the interaction so they instead got lazy and turned it off).
That would be really great! Now we would just need dual heavy beam banks and perhaps a beam turret
Something like that, yeah, but in different weapon types so as to profit from specialized projectile consoles and mountable in the aft as well. And, available for at least dilithium for chrissake. Torpedo tubes do have a priority, by the way. It's left-to-right, just as with energy weapons in their own way. The ferengi missile launcher should never "steal" priority -- and as a consequence, bugger HYT/TS the least -- so long as it's in the rightmost weapons slot.
And, a word about the wide-angle launcher and the photon PDS: the former is a fully-realized quantum torpedo, and the latter is its own thing (with a three-minute cooldown, no less). Neither would compare to a micro-torpedo launcher as I imagine it.
Spock's Brain.
You're assuming of course there isn't a device in the middle of that plasma ball keeping the torpedo from dissipating in space. I see no reason why that couldn't also contain guidance and propulsion components.