Kamikaze Attacks

[Alexander Seil]

I'm here in the dark concerning calculation of damage from "projectiles" that are in fact ships and whether speed plays a role into it. The matter is, sometimes I find that it's more convenient to ram the enemy cap ship that's shooting at me than to simply try to evade it (if I know that I'm going to die). What interests me is the damage I could do that way versus whatever damage I can inflict using my pulse cannons for another 15 or 20 seconds more.

[TexMurphy]

Crashing your fighter into the launch bay of a carrier... >=)

[Pheagey]

if your a cap ship just get REALLY close to enemy. Like bumping into them. Dont ram them (u'll see why). Just stay close and when u explode the enemy will be close to your ships slash damage. If you ram them theres a chance you'll get reallt damaged but bounce off, thus there will be distance between you two when u go up in that nice ball of flames.

[MishimaYukio]

another idea if you are in a fighter, go for the launch bays, if you are lucky you can hit a fighter as its launching, if not you might prevent launching for a minutes or 2 (or longer)

[DamoclesX]

or you could go home.. and live to fight another day:)

[MishimaYukio]

ah, i was thinking more along the lines of MP combat XD

[DamoclesX]

ah

I dont know how it works in mp I have not had the chance to really try it yet

[Alexander Seil]

I like the idea about the bays [:D], plus I might just create a second player persona to run a couple of tests in the campaign to see how much damage a fighter can do if it crashes into a cap ship. I didn't realize there was any splash damage from explosions though...I'll have to keep that in mind [:)]

[TheDeadlyShoe]

Side note: You can skip shielding by flying into a carrier's launch bay...Risky, though, esp if it moves.

[iconoclast107]

Does anybody know splash damage range of a carrier? I go into the docking bay of the carriers and just blast them til it's at 00 health. Then try and afterburner straight out, hit M to keep my inertia going and then spin around to finish it with a couple shots. If it's more than 12 km or whatever cannon range is i'll just have to start carrying a spare ASM.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

You could always just return to your carrier and come back with more missiles. [:'(]

I'm not sure on the kill-radius. Splash range defaults to something or another based on integrity, but it can also be manually defined.

[Mehrunes]

I think it's 6 times the radius of the ship by default, and it does 50% of the ship's maximum hull value at it's origin and drops linearly to zero at the edge.