Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:47 am
Planet Destruction
I was just thinking, since freelancer isnt getting much points in the realism department, why not make 2 extra Base Destruction type missions, 1 that has you attacking and destroying a battleship (paying 200k + and being extremely difficult, but getting a huge item spray from a destroyed ship) and a Planetary Assault, the way i think this would work, is the planet has a HUGE HP meter, even with the best weapons it would require up to 15 minutes of constant hammering, and on the hardest of missions, it could only take damage at certain areas (think fault lines, volcanos, etc). They could stick a bunch of turrets down under its atmosphere, and the cool thing would be, since it has a lot of hp, you could swoop down below the atmosphere and bomb the turrets, im talking planetary defense guns, this could add a whole layer of depth (maybe going through the atmosphere can be like going through a sparse minefield, where you take periodical damage but not enough to kill you off like other atmospheres or sun coronas.
Once you are close enough, its sort of like planetside warfare, you dont take anymore damage and you can fly along side it, destroy turrets, then head back out to space. No loading, nothing, just flying real close, different planets could also have different turret setups, some simple planets could have a few small turrets, and the very biggest could have lots of heavy turrets all over, and 3-4 Weapons Platforms acting as moons with defence stations on them (enlarged a bit, obviously). And when a planet is destroyed, whatever commodities are prominent in that sector of space are dropped en large (im talking packs of 30 such as on freight trains) along with lots of different guns, or most importantly turrets. They could even have a special, super heavy damage class called Planetary Defence Guns that are extremely powerful, used in Planetary Defence but modified to fit a ship. I think this would make the game a ton more fun, and just to add to the chaos, the planet could take a long time to explode.
The actual death of a planet could last up to 3 minutes, it would either starts burning up, spinning crazily, cracking all over the place until it shatters into a ton of pieces, and you know when you destroy a transport? how it leave large pieces of it on fire and floating through space, it would be the same, but it would be huge chunks of planet instead. These would be aimed more towards high levels, their hp could be legendary, very very big, so its a challenge, and their guns could be extremely good aswell (im talking nomad cannon powered for large ones) and their could be small, medium, and large planets. This i think would be a great deal of fun, getting together with a bunch of friends and launching a planetary assault. I just figured it would be a awesome addition as a mission type, its not realistic i know, and i dont care, not many things in freelancer are very space-simmy anyway. They could also put a limit of 3 planets per sector so seperate people can still get planetary assault missions, but to prevent overcrowding there would be a limit of three per sector, when you take a planet assault mission but theres already 3 in there.
It moves the planet to a neighboring sector, such as some missions require 1 or more jumps to get to the intended target. These could simply be explained by superiorly advanced terraforming methods which can turn a artificial core into a planet in a short amount of time.
"I Would Rather Die Standing Than Live On My Knees"
Once you are close enough, its sort of like planetside warfare, you dont take anymore damage and you can fly along side it, destroy turrets, then head back out to space. No loading, nothing, just flying real close, different planets could also have different turret setups, some simple planets could have a few small turrets, and the very biggest could have lots of heavy turrets all over, and 3-4 Weapons Platforms acting as moons with defence stations on them (enlarged a bit, obviously). And when a planet is destroyed, whatever commodities are prominent in that sector of space are dropped en large (im talking packs of 30 such as on freight trains) along with lots of different guns, or most importantly turrets. They could even have a special, super heavy damage class called Planetary Defence Guns that are extremely powerful, used in Planetary Defence but modified to fit a ship. I think this would make the game a ton more fun, and just to add to the chaos, the planet could take a long time to explode.
The actual death of a planet could last up to 3 minutes, it would either starts burning up, spinning crazily, cracking all over the place until it shatters into a ton of pieces, and you know when you destroy a transport? how it leave large pieces of it on fire and floating through space, it would be the same, but it would be huge chunks of planet instead. These would be aimed more towards high levels, their hp could be legendary, very very big, so its a challenge, and their guns could be extremely good aswell (im talking nomad cannon powered for large ones) and their could be small, medium, and large planets. This i think would be a great deal of fun, getting together with a bunch of friends and launching a planetary assault. I just figured it would be a awesome addition as a mission type, its not realistic i know, and i dont care, not many things in freelancer are very space-simmy anyway. They could also put a limit of 3 planets per sector so seperate people can still get planetary assault missions, but to prevent overcrowding there would be a limit of three per sector, when you take a planet assault mission but theres already 3 in there.
It moves the planet to a neighboring sector, such as some missions require 1 or more jumps to get to the intended target. These could simply be explained by superiorly advanced terraforming methods which can turn a artificial core into a planet in a short amount of time.
"I Would Rather Die Standing Than Live On My Knees"
