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If Hera can make the Gaitori Homing Pulse trail and the Salrilian T-bolt effect, you can do anything with Hera.

-Slug

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Could you make a ship that seeks, explodes on impact (basically a missle,) but which has weapons? Because I'm thinking Battle Drones... Now that would be cool. You could have a Drone Base constructor which would move out into a certain spot, and build a Drone factory, which would be a station which you could only build drones at, they could all stay around the station, and blam, deathtrap for enemy ships.

Or what about a construction ship, which flies around and can build bases, which are destroyable, have little health, and can build one type of ship? Maybe have it build scaled down powerstations too...

Don't mind me, just thinking of ways to make Ares more a strategy game than it already is.



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Hmmm... I have an idea, you could make a missile that, when fired gains your target, therefore a missile that you can tell which ship you want it to go after. This would, of course, only be useful at long range because of the time it would take to target the right ship. And the only problems I can see is if it stops near the target like a ship does, and the computer would be able to target the right ship in less then a second.

How about a missile which is technically a "ship." You target an enemy, it heads over, and its only weapon is 20 pixel range. The weapon is fired off 20 pixels before impact, and the ship missile is destroyed as part of the weapon. This way, there is a slight pause, then a guaranteed hit upon the targeted ship.

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Once caalaklael, now Pallas Athene
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Athena, daughter and favorite of Zeus, half sister of Ares, goddess of wisdom and war

You guys are not thinking about this correctly. Do not think ship or weapon but object. Look at the non-ship/non weapon things in Ares and try to think in terms of an object atributes. For example, there are asteroids, green asteroids, and two types of smaller asteroids, one of which can be collected. Then there are zerbilites which are ships but have a different impact result. And of course transports and assualt troopers convert objects into your own. It has been suggested before that asteroids should be mined for resources. All one would have to do is modify the small asteroids to create resources when collected. If this can not be done the direct way then one could program a condition that when you had x amount of asteroids you would suddenly get a new ship. Or that you would get an invisible sprite appearing somewhere that is programed to gennerate reasorces rapidly for a short amount of time before desintigrating. Or, asteroids could be mined by capturing them like stations which would cause the invisible objects to appear. Clearly we have only begun to explore the pottentialities of Hera. One could in theory place invitible sprites over planets with weaponry to simulate orbital defences.
Remember, asside from the no moving ship constructors, almost anything is possible. Almost

-Walter-

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BTW, I'm the one that originally suggested Asteroid Collectors, or if anyone did, there was still a lot of debate by the time my suggestion came out.

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Once caalaklael, now Pallas Athene
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Athena, daughter and favorite of Zeus, half sister of Ares, goddess of wisdom and war

Hi I know I'm a newbie but please don't hate me. Just a very quick idea for a weapon. As some of you probably know when you heat Tritium and Deuterium to several million ?c you form plasma. Plasma is affected by magnetic fields. you could create a weapon that produces a cylindrical magnetic field and then pumps plasma down it. I think it might just have a little bit of effect on the ship it hit.

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Why Tritanium and Deutarium? Those aren't even real!
Hydrogen Plasma would be easier to get, and would be just as effective.

That's a cute little theory, but untill we perfect monopolar-magnetic forces, that's a wee bit far fetched. Besides that, that's probably the most intelligent thing I've heard for a while

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Tritium is real and so is deuterium. Tritium is a radioactive substance that is used e.g. in weapon sights (due to the fact that it is self luminent and it doesn't need light to "charge" itself), and deuterium aka heavy water, is used as to regulate fission reaction. It is an isotope of hydrogen, to be exact, with two neutrons, we all know that hydrogen is only a single proton and an electron.
Weird, I thought that Slug knows these things, well he ain't here anymore.

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Strange… just a moment ago I was flying through a dense asteroid field… but now I feel quite cold… And just what happened to my
H-Cruiser?!?

Maybe you could make some kind of kamikaze ship,Like a fighter that just seeks out an enemy ship and blows up when it hits it.

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First of all, who cares about particle physics. ITS A FRICKIN' GAME. And second of all, what about an extremely long-range high-power laser that would have an extremely slow recharge rate. Perhaps a certain ship would have to be created. Maybe you could create immobile 'special weapons' likewise. ....???

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I think I've read enough...
Is it okay if in my plug I don't worry about all your new ship and weapon classes?
I'd, kind of, prefer to use the basic stuff and add maybe a COUPLE of new things...
And, um, is all this particle physics stuff neccesary? Ares isn't the MOST physically correct game I've ever played, and if you want a physically correct game, go get Terminus.
Okay?
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hey, one more post if u don't mind, just wanted to say some of the weapons I made in ares, I completed the game then came up with some cool changes to c-milliles, first I changed them so that they had c-missile launchers themselves and the launchers fired quickly but this quickly used up the total sprites, next I just made them quick fire and very manuverable, those were fun, just fire off loads and see them all hit, lastley I used the manuverable missiles and but t-bolt and trazers on them along with a-missile launchers, talk about overkill! Now those were fun . Anyway, some of these were simmilar to weapons ppl were talking about on the board, lastly just wanted to say about the particle physics that if u really want to pick holes in ares u don't need to go down nearly that far, just look at collisions, in a collision no matter what ships are involved they always rebound, going opposite directions, this is just dumb, a carrier colliding with a fighter should have almost no change in momentum yet it can be stopped! I'm annoyed I didn't know about the non-ship-building thing, spent ages trying to get them motherships from battlestations! to build, oh well.
Yours,
John

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Hey here's a good idea, you have a ship that transfroms into a giant maid with a vacuum that sucks the air away from a planet. and then the planet dies. if this sounds a lot like Spaceball-1/MegaMaid from Spaceballs, that's because it's what would have happened if MegaMaid had gotten Duidia's air without Lone Star interfearing.

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