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Photon Torpedoes move way to slow...

lexusk19lexusk19 Member Posts: 1,415 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
So after rewatching some DS9 and other shows, I noticed that STO's photons move way to slow.. Like easily need a speed boost of 50%. Anyone else agree?
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  • avoozuulavoozuul Member Posts: 3,215 Arc User
    More like tricobalts are too slow.
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  • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    someone said it in another thread, and it bears repeating...the speed at which the kelvin photon travels is the baseline by which ALL non-targetable torpedoes should be set to​​
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  • asuran14asuran14 Member Posts: 2,335 Arc User
    I would say that they should tie the travel time/speed of torpedoes to either your weapon power level, or your aux power level. I can understand not tying the damage of torpedoes to weapon power, but tying the travel speed to a power system makes sense actually, as the more power you dump into the launcher system the faster (and/or quicker) you could launch them at.
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,710 Arc User
    asuran14 wrote: »
    I would say that they should tie the travel time/speed of torpedoes to either your weapon power level, or your aux power level. I can understand not tying the damage of torpedoes to weapon power, but tying the travel speed to a power system makes sense actually, as the more power you dump into the launcher system the faster (and/or quicker) you could launch them at.

    I disagree. Torpedoes are self-propelled not railgun shells. Launchers should at most be kicking them free of a ship before they ignite their own engines.

  • peterconnorfirstpeterconnorfirst Member Posts: 6,225 Arc User
    edited December 2017
    davefenestrator wrote: »

    I disagree. Torpedoes are self-propelled not railgun shells. Launchers should at most be kicking them free of a ship before they ignite their own engines.

    Yea but couldn’t our ship’s supply of aux power not really determine with how much power for propulsion a torpedo gets supplied with b4 firing? I find the idea behind it not that unreasonable and could make up for a pretty interesting new game mechanic. :)
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  • asuran14asuran14 Member Posts: 2,335 Arc User
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    asuran14 wrote: »
    I would say that they should tie the travel time/speed of torpedoes to either your weapon power level, or your aux power level. I can understand not tying the damage of torpedoes to weapon power, but tying the travel speed to a power system makes sense actually, as the more power you dump into the launcher system the faster (and/or quicker) you could launch them at.

    I disagree. Torpedoes are self-propelled not railgun shells. Launchers should at most be kicking them free of a ship before they ignite their own engines.

    Well that is what is weird, as they do have warp-coils (also known as a warp sustainer engine), which grabs an holds onto a hand-off field from the launcher tube's sequential field induction coils. This is why a torpedo fired at warp speed is able to sustain warp travel, and in some ways it feels they function somewhat like a mixture of a rail-gun an self-propelled projectile. I could use the onboard propulsion systems being more of course correction thrusters, while the primary propellent is from the main-launcher.
  • strathkinstrathkin Member Posts: 2,671 Bug Hunter
    Kelvin's Torp's along with most other's can be improved by 33% using Pre-Fire Sequence along with a 12.5% damage boost; yet still I think most Torpedoes need either shorter firing times, slightly increased firing ARC, or a damage boost.

    Torpedoes are supposed to be one of the strongest weapons in an arsenal; yet Wide-Arc Dual Heavy Cannon's, Dual Cannon's, even Normal Cannon's with a 180° firing ARC put them all to shame. :#
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  • asuran14asuran14 Member Posts: 2,335 Arc User
    strathkin wrote: »
    Kelvin's Torp's along with most other's can be improved by 33% using Pre-Fire Sequence along with a 12.5% damage boost; yet still I think most Torpedoes need either shorter firing times, slightly increased firing ARC, or a damage boost.

    Torpedoes are supposed to be one of the strongest weapons in an arsenal; yet Wide-Arc Dual Heavy Cannon's, Dual Cannon's, even Normal Cannon's with a 180° firing ARC put them all to shame. :#

    That is not completely true, as the speed boost from the trait only affects destructible torpedoes, but the damage buff affects all torpedoes.

    Increases your damage with Torpedoes. Your Descructible Torpedoes, such as High-Yield Plasma Torpedoes, fly faster.
    +33% Destructible Torpedo Flight Speed
    +12.5% Torpedo Damage
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,710 Arc User
    asuran14 wrote: »
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    asuran14 wrote: »
    I would say that they should tie the travel time/speed of torpedoes to either your weapon power level, or your aux power level. I can understand not tying the damage of torpedoes to weapon power, but tying the travel speed to a power system makes sense actually, as the more power you dump into the launcher system the faster (and/or quicker) you could launch them at.

    I disagree. Torpedoes are self-propelled not railgun shells. Launchers should at most be kicking them free of a ship before they ignite their own engines.

    Well that is what is weird, as they do have warp-coils (also known as a warp sustainer engine), which grabs an holds onto a hand-off field from the launcher tube's sequential field induction coils. This is why a torpedo fired at warp speed is able to sustain warp travel, and in some ways it feels they function somewhat like a mixture of a rail-gun an self-propelled projectile. I could use the onboard propulsion systems being more of course correction thrusters, while the primary propellent is from the main-launcher.

    Interesting. I can't recall seeing torpedo fire at warp in any prime timeline show, is this a Kelvin or Discovery thing?
  • psiameesepsiameese Member Posts: 1,650 Arc User
    See Encounter at Farpoint. Enterprise runs from Q at warp velocity. Fires torpedoes at warp as the saucer performs a risky separation.
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  • pottsey5gpottsey5g Member Posts: 4,256 Arc User
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    asuran14 wrote: »
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    asuran14 wrote: »
    I would say that they should tie the travel time/speed of torpedoes to either your weapon power level, or your aux power level. I can understand not tying the damage of torpedoes to weapon power, but tying the travel speed to a power system makes sense actually, as the more power you dump into the launcher system the faster (and/or quicker) you could launch them at.

    I disagree. Torpedoes are self-propelled not railgun shells. Launchers should at most be kicking them free of a ship before they ignite their own engines.

    Well that is what is weird, as they do have warp-coils (also known as a warp sustainer engine), which grabs an holds onto a hand-off field from the launcher tube's sequential field induction coils. This is why a torpedo fired at warp speed is able to sustain warp travel, and in some ways it feels they function somewhat like a mixture of a rail-gun an self-propelled projectile. I could use the onboard propulsion systems being more of course correction thrusters, while the primary propellent is from the main-launcher.

    Interesting. I can't recall seeing torpedo fire at warp in any prime timeline show, is this a Kelvin or Discovery thing?

    There have been a number of cases where torpedo's change speed, even lunched at subwarp then going into warp. Torpdeos come in a lot of different versions and many probes they shoot are just torpedoes configured to warp with a sensor package instead of a payload.
  • asuran14asuran14 Member Posts: 2,335 Arc User
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    asuran14 wrote: »
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    asuran14 wrote: »
    I would say that they should tie the travel time/speed of torpedoes to either your weapon power level, or your aux power level. I can understand not tying the damage of torpedoes to weapon power, but tying the travel speed to a power system makes sense actually, as the more power you dump into the launcher system the faster (and/or quicker) you could launch them at.

    I disagree. Torpedoes are self-propelled not railgun shells. Launchers should at most be kicking them free of a ship before they ignite their own engines.

    Well that is what is weird, as they do have warp-coils (also known as a warp sustainer engine), which grabs an holds onto a hand-off field from the launcher tube's sequential field induction coils. This is why a torpedo fired at warp speed is able to sustain warp travel, and in some ways it feels they function somewhat like a mixture of a rail-gun an self-propelled projectile. I could use the onboard propulsion systems being more of course correction thrusters, while the primary propellent is from the main-launcher.

    Interesting. I can't recall seeing torpedo fire at warp in any prime timeline show, is this a Kelvin or Discovery thing?

    I do believe it has been done, sometimes to drop a ship out of warp that they are chasing. though i would have to go back and rewatch some episodes to see which ones, it might have been in the movies. it was quite rare, though firing torpedoes seemed quite rare too in the shows.
  • darkknightucfdarkknightucf Member Posts: 1,546 Media Corps
    asuran14 wrote: »
    strathkin wrote: »
    Kelvin's Torp's along with most other's can be improved by 33% using Pre-Fire Sequence along with a 12.5% damage boost; yet still I think most Torpedoes need either shorter firing times, slightly increased firing ARC, or a damage boost.

    Torpedoes are supposed to be one of the strongest weapons in an arsenal; yet Wide-Arc Dual Heavy Cannon's, Dual Cannon's, even Normal Cannon's with a 180° firing ARC put them all to shame. :#

    That is not completely true, as the speed boost from the trait only affects destructible torpedoes, but the damage buff affects all torpedoes.

    Increases your damage with Torpedoes. Your Descructible Torpedoes, such as High-Yield Plasma Torpedoes, fly faster.
    +33% Destructible Torpedo Flight Speed
    +12.5% Torpedo Damage

    This is correct. The speed increase only affects "pet"/destructible torpedoes. A fun note from @borticuscryptic who says something about the non-destructible torpedo flight speed being tied into the FX attribute of the torp. Bort, is there any news as to whether the non-destructible flight speed will increase in the future?

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  • lordsteve1lordsteve1 Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    I'd have to fully agree, the Kelvin Photons feel like they should be the baseline speed by which all other torps follow from. When you shoot those off they actually feel like a decent meaty projectile (even if they don't do the most damage), they fly good and fast and match what i'd perceive to be the speed a torp should be going at. Standard torps by comparison feel like you're throwing heavy weights at the enemy and they are flying through mud.
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  • feralaffferalaff Member Posts: 77 Arc User
    As the torpedo lover that i am....yes! I agree that all "non-targetable torpedoes" should move faster, (let's say + 25-30% speed) and also 1 second faster firing rate.
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    Geezus! How many torpedo threads do we need?!? :D
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  • pottsey5gpottsey5g Member Posts: 4,256 Arc User
    The thing I find odd about torpedoes is in the game the big plasma ball torpedoes are super slow the complete opposite to how they are in the TV show. In the show the big plasma ball torpedoes are some of the fastest torpedos around. So fast that they outrun the Enterprise in warp
  • neomodiousneomodious Member Posts: 428 Arc User
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    asuran14 wrote: »
    I would say that they should tie the travel time/speed of torpedoes to either your weapon power level, or your aux power level. I can understand not tying the damage of torpedoes to weapon power, but tying the travel speed to a power system makes sense actually, as the more power you dump into the launcher system the faster (and/or quicker) you could launch them at.

    I disagree. Torpedoes are self-propelled not railgun shells. Launchers should at most be kicking them free of a ship before they ignite their own engines.

    You mean like jets on an aircraft carrier? Especially since there's work being done to change from steam powered to electromagnetic accelerator?
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