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Capitol Charge Cannon

Sep 10, 2016 greenwall link
-Large port
-Damage: 400-40,000
-Velocity: 300m/s
-Lifespan: 4 seconds
-Delay: 4 seconds
-Mass: 300,000kg
-Targetting: Very good
-Charge Rate: 200/s
-Full Charge: 9000 energy
-Grid: 25

The basic idea is to allow the charged cannon to be used on a Trident and buff the damage to be relative to the power capacity of THPC.
Sep 10, 2016 We all float link
-1
Sep 11, 2016 Hoban-Wash-Washburne link
-1 Could you be anymore obvious about wanting a single dent de-shielding weapon.
Sep 11, 2016 greenwall link
*updated*(forgot to post the full charge requirement)
Sep 11, 2016 abortretryfail link
Add a fire rate limit to make spamming the lowest charge level ineffective and you've got a +1 from me.

I still feel like a beam cannon with a tiny hit cross-section would be ideal for this sort of thing to make it extremely difficult to use vs smaller ships for a 1-hit kill.
Sep 11, 2016 greenwall link
I thought a delay of 4 seconds would do that... you think longer ARF?
Sep 11, 2016 Mi5 link
+1
Sep 11, 2016 joylessjoker link
-1

Absolutely not.
Sep 11, 2016 bojansplash link
-1
Sep 11, 2016 Eyvindr link
-1
Sep 12, 2016 Xeha link
+1 finally a trident weapon!
Sep 12, 2016 CrazySpence link
dunno if i wanna hold the button for 45 sec just to miss but something new would be nice

+1
Sep 12, 2016 Space Pancakes link
Would the dent have to stay out of turbo to gain the full charge?

+1 dents should be more dangerous.
Sep 12, 2016 greenwall link
@nith

Turboing and charging at the same time would result in a 95 energy/sec drain (if I did my math right...). So effectively you wouldn't be able to turbo and reach full charge at the same time. You would only be able to start turboing near the last 10% of charging.

Obviously once the weapon is charged you can turbo all you'd like...
Sep 12, 2016 Dr. Lecter link
+1 to narrow-beam version. Polaris Raven with CPL