Self-firing nanite?

[djrbk]

Is it possible to have a device that fires self-mounted repairing shots at your ship?

I'm thinking that this idea probably wouldn't work loaded into a gun bay, as those are programmed to shoot outwards and imagine it would be tricky to program them to shoot inwards... But possibly in the cloak field. (see: the recharge device GT has for energy), but instead of repairing energy, this would repair hull... Use large amounts of energy, and increase sig by whatever.

Just an idea to build on a couple of other ideas I've been fiddling around with.

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[Andon]

A self-nan is possible. Auto-firing, though, would require a code change.

For the self-nan, you just create a nanite with an AOE and no speed. Fire it, then it 'explodes' and effects you with the AOE

[djrbk]

Clever solution!

[Makida]

That would be a really cool piece of equipment. Really, if there are ships in the Allegiance universe that can quickly repair other ships and bases just by "shooting" at them, why wouldn't there be a device for repairing your own ship? You'd think it'd be easy. Just collect some of those blue doughnuts the nan gun fires in a jar, and open it if you're ever in trouble... I wonder how you'd balance a device that can repair the ship it's mounted on, though. >_> If any combat ship could mount it it'd be total cheese. Maybe only let scouts mount it, since only they can mount the nan gun. Then it would be mostly useless though, if it was mounted like a gun, since you wouldn't have time to switch between nanning yourself and a bomber or something during a run. But it could be useful, say, if you're a TP-dropping scout, you got damaged while sneaking into a sector but then managed to hide. But even then, not very useful.

[carbon]

Self-nanning ships kinda suck the teamplay element out of the game.
You may as well just give it thicker shields or hull.

In the game world, maybe they can't fit nans to the outside of spaceships due to alternate-phasing quantum nano field particle mis-alignment saturation.

[deathgoat]

you mean 'solar inverter', but for hull repair, maybe nanitefield or something... mounting in gun slot would make it more even for df and such... just flying around with one mounted in cargo seems a tad unfair.. go df, fly off into nowhere trade out mini3 for nanitefield, repair yourself go back at it.. is kinda useless for vehicles that can just rip out and fly back, but ints would be pretty nice... maybe fly with 2/3 mini3 slots used and throw the repair in there... you wont kill as fast but can live longer

[djrbk]

For ints that makes sense to me a la gunslot.

I was thinking primary for bombers tbh. A faction(/core/whatever) that has no "outward" nan guns, only "self-firing" "nanitefields". This would change bombing completely for said faction/core/whatever. Instead of nan trains, it would be bomber trains with int/fighter support. Because they could only have one or two nans mountable at once (1 normal, 2 heavy?), it wouldn't be overwhelmingly difficult (nor overly easy) to spike the bomber, and it would be a costly operation to mount on the bombing side.

Hmm...

This however would make miners and cons much much more vulnerable in said scenario. Probably would need a perk of somekind on that end.

[Makida]

Wouldn't it be a bit like Phoenix then? Except for the miner and con bit.

Anyway, this would only work if the nan-field is much weaker than a regular nan... >_>

[CronoDroid]

QUOTE (djrbk @ Dec 7 2008, 06:51 PM) Instead of nan trains, it would be bomber trains with int/fighter support. Because they could only have one or two nans mountable at once (1 normal, 2 heavy?), it wouldn't be overwhelmingly difficult (nor overly easy) to spike the bomber, and it would be a costly operation to mount on the bombing side.

Noir 3:16 And thus it was concieved, the magnificient idea, the solution to the lack of Teamwork in the day's heretical age. Phoenix was born.

[Sushi]

So, how much would it suck to be the guy who sits on the bomber and holds down the "self-nan" button? Talk about boring.