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Author Topic: The Making of a Ramming Ship.  (Read 2431 times)

Pizzarugi

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Re: The Making of a Ramming Ship.
« Reply #15 on: June 03, 2024, 06:32:54 AM »

Exotica Technologies is a good start as it has a unique flux vent exotic which lets you move your ship in any direction you like while also venting flux. This effectively turns any ship into a ram-capable weapon. You can then use something like the Aurora cruiser for its system ability which should let you flux shunt faster and thus deal more damage. I once had a shoving match between myself and an enemy Nova capitol.
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TaLaR

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Re: The Making of a Ramming Ship.
« Reply #16 on: June 03, 2024, 08:58:22 AM »

Imo, ramming for damage doesn't really work in SS.

What happens when you succeed at killing the target ship with a ram? - It explodes and takes you out at as well!
And if you have something like spike long enough to kill enemy from outside their explosion radius, it's about 450 or so, same as shorter range weapons already in game.

Though yeah, to some degree you can do it with Odyssey. Use system to rush at enemy and activate shield at distance where your hull is still outside their shield, but your shield is inside their hull (so, you can only do it to smaller ships).
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yajusenpai

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Re: The Making of a Ramming Ship.
« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2024, 11:05:16 AM »

Because ramming is kinetic, the most practical application is probably Build your ship full of anti armor weapon and use the ship as your main anti shield weapon.
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Re: The Making of a Ramming Ship.
« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2024, 08:45:50 PM »

Imo, ramming for damage doesn't really work in SS.

What happens when you succeed at killing the target ship with a ram? - It explodes and takes you out at as well!
You want to ram targets that don't die immediately from you ramming them, but instead go flying and crash into their teammates, sending them flying as well while exploding on them.
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Re: The Making of a Ramming Ship.
« Reply #19 on: June 14, 2024, 08:28:31 AM »

You want to ram targets that don't die immediately from you ramming them, but instead go flying and crash into their teammates, sending them flying as well while exploding on them.

THIS GUY GETS IT.
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