Here is a question: What kind of damage can the weapon of a human on foot, which should weigh 5~20kg do against a ship, that is designed to tank fire from other ships, whose weapons are several thousand kilograms each?
It was stated that "players [can] throw grenades at ships an[d] expect to deal significant damage if it's unshielded". Maybe to small ships without any decent armor plating I hope.
Let's take the smallest comparable ship-class weapon to compare to let's say a human rocket or grenade launcher:
It was stated that "players [can] throw grenades at ships an[d] expect to deal significant damage if it's unshielded". Maybe to small ships without any decent armor plating I hope.
Let's take the smallest comparable ship-class weapon to compare to let's say a human rocket or grenade launcher:
- 1B Dumb fire: weighs 2000kg. Assuming half of it is the weapon itself and the other half is ammo, we have 1000kg/24 missiles ~= 42kg per missile.
- Handheld rocket / grenade launcher should be no heavier than 30kg. Assuming 20% of that is the weapon itself and a single rocket is the rest, we'd have 24kg in that rocket.