Carpet Bombing Skimmers

We have missiles. We have fast ships. Bases have defenses.

Carpet bombing skimmers would be a blast! Yea, bad pun.... but well timed!

Just make it so the mission fails on ship destruction, similar to how we lose combat bonds and bounties if we blow up before turning them in.

There should be a ton of skimmers on the bases. The turrets should begin firing once we unleash our attack.

Basically this would require 2 changes: 1 ) increase the amount of skimmers that spawn and skimmers would need to respawn after the first batch is destroyed, 2) mission failure on ship destruction.
 
Yeh, nah, believe it or not skimmer missions were made more fun in 3.0, aside from the rewards, they're actually great how they are. The rewards are fine too if you're doing them at serious bases, which involves taking out power plants and managing certain other defenses. Unfortunately, they made huge payouts possible for going to no security bases and that got exploited and now there are no skimmer missions in the game to fix cos FD knee jerked.
 
Yeh, nah, believe it or not skimmer missions were made more fun in 3.0, aside from the rewards, they're actually great how they are. The rewards are fine too if you're doing them at serious bases, which involves taking out power plants and managing certain other defenses. Unfortunately, they made huge payouts possible for going to no security bases and that got exploited and now there are no skimmer missions in the game to fix cos FD knee jerked.

But, they nerfed them today

Yeh, nah, believe it or not skimmer missions were made more fun in 3.0, aside from the rewards, they're actually great how they are. The rewards are fine too if you're doing them at serious bases, which involves taking out power plants and managing certain other defenses. Unfortunately, they made huge payouts possible for going to no security bases and that got exploited and now there are no skimmer missions in the game to fix cos FD knee jerked.

I did this at Oxley yesterday with mine launchers and a Cobra Mk.3 and pretended I was a B2 bomber. I had an embarrassingly good time.

And, alas, they got nerfed today.

I bet mines would be AWESOME.
 
I wanna fight the King of the Skimmers. Like he'll be a big skimmer.

He'll come at me.

I'll rip his circuity guts out.

He will die. Then I will reverse 50 meters and charge forward! Hark!

The King is born again!

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etc.

#Baboysfantasy
 
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Now you just need to wait for the next so called exploit to be found ;)

Ikr? Theres probably a pax run out there paying a billion a run or something...

I wanna fight the King of the Skimmers. Like he'll be a big skimmer.

He'll come at me.

I'll rip his circuity guts out.

He will die. Then I will reverse 50 meters and charge forward! Hark!

The King is born again!

Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King!
Long live the King!
Long live the King!
Long live the King!
Long live the King!
Long live the King!
Long live the King!
Long live the King!
Long live the King!
Long live the King!
Long live the King!
Long live the King!
Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King!
Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King!
Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King!
Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King!
Long live the King!
Long live the King!
etc.

#Baboysfantasy

Well... hopefully not that long... cuz his guts are out and all... lol...
 
But, they nerfed them today

They havent' been nerfed yet, they've been removed from the game entirely while a balance pass is performed. It's safe to say a nerf is incoming, but that also doesn't change hte fact that I think a carpet bomb type weapon is not what the game needs most currently, nor do I think they are looking for new gaameplay ideas prior to bringing skimmer missions back online. :)
 
I did this at Oxley yesterday with mine launchers and a Cobra Mk.3 and pretended I was a B2 bomber. I had an embarrassingly good time.

Hey now you know that so called “ good time“ isn’t allowed here. commandant F dev only wants you to work!
 
They havent' been nerfed yet, they've been removed from the game entirely while a balance pass is performed. It's safe to say a nerf is incoming, but that also doesn't change hte fact that I think a carpet bomb type weapon is not what the game needs most currently, nor do I think they are looking for new gaameplay ideas prior to bringing skimmer missions back online. :)

Who asked for a carpet bombing weapon? Where'd you get that? Lol... smh...
 
Let's be honest for a moment (then we can return to the normal mode), the skimmer missions were fun for half a dozen or so, but they quickly become tiresome. If you're out for materials, and you know the nerf is coming, you stacked up grade 5 mats until you couldn't carry any more then you went and traded them for others, and did it again. If you made some bank from it, that's cool as well, but if cash cows never went away we'd not feel the need to get in on it.
 
Carpet bombing would be fun. I would really like a bomb planetary installation mission, kill civilians, gain 5 notoriety and become hostile instantly.
 
We have missiles. We have fast ships. Bases have defenses.

Carpet bombing skimmers would be a blast! Yea, bad pun.... but well timed!

Just make it so the mission fails on ship destruction, similar to how we lose combat bonds and bounties if we blow up before turning them in.

There should be a ton of skimmers on the bases. The turrets should begin firing once we unleash our attack.

Basically this would require 2 changes: 1 ) increase the amount of skimmers that spawn and skimmers would need to respawn after the first batch is destroyed, 2) mission failure on ship destruction.

Maybe skimmers are meant to defend against ground-based incursions and not fight ships. So maybe skimmers should be housed in bunkers or some sort of structure immune to ship bombings and only come out when a SRV is trespassing.
 
Maybe if the missions were changed to either fail on ship destruction OR ship scanned - as in you must kill off with an SRV so that the base and its defenders cannot directly identify from whom the mission was commissioned...

Just my 2c
 
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