MORE NUKES
They can be SP limited or whatever (and could also be used in GRB instead of the default nuke plane)
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If players could be trusted to not constantly kill their teammates, yeah lol
I’d say the cost should go up way more, something like each additional nuke costs 50% or even 100% more.
So a second 300SP nuke would bring the total cost to 750SP or even 900SP.
For the sake of balance it should be impossible to carry more than one nuke though.
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if people want to mass TK, they can mass TK even without these
They’ll get kicked after 2TK and have to pay a veeeery big SL penalty if they do it either way
This is not about them “wanting” to TK, it’s about the fact that AIR-2s have a blast radius of 300m and are rigged to explode after travelling for around 12 seconds, or roughly 10km.
People constantly misjudged how safe a regular missile launch would be, do you really expect them to be more careful with “haha, funny nuke go boom”?
I don’t care about their fate, I care about the teammates that end up losing because of the careless players.
Probabbly one of the best and uniqe idea in last 10 years… I dont know what will happen but I want it.
The one big issue to be fair is not all nations have nukes or if we want to be liberal about it many aircraft could drop a nuke or during some nations had the plans for them to drop nukes. An example being the F-CK-1 (not in game yet) Taiwan had a Nuke Program and there planned drop aircraft was the F-CK-1.
So a standard would have to be come up with.
Pretty sure the JH-7 and Chinas Su-30 could carry and deliver nukes.
The real problems would be Japan and Sweden, unless you give them access to nukes based on them having planes that theoretically could carry and deliver nukes.
The bigger problem though:
This suggestion would be impossible to properly balance.
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True just giving a good example of it was expected to have such capability according to the Taiwan nuke program. It is unclear if Japan as a turn key nation put any thought into it.
Why would Taiwan even matter? China has nuclear weapons.
Because we have ROC in the China Tree and if all Atomic Weapons could be unlocked the F-CK-1 would matter depending on how the rules are. For example if there was evidence a Japan’s plane could be equipped with a nuke by Japanese planning should it have it? If not then what how will that effect the game there are questions that need to be asked for balance and how far things should or should not go.
300m really isn’t all that much in terms of air rb
A sphere with a 600m diameter isn’t all that much?
And that’s just the actual blast, I couldn’t tell the distance at which the shockwave would stop dealing damage. The overpressure radius apparently is closer to 900m (or a 1800m diameter).
Just because the typical missile engagement distance is pretty large doesn’t mean that a kill radius of at least 300m isn’t massive, especially when considering that the planes that would be able to carry the AIR-2 are 9.0/9.3 (perhaps even lower, depening on what BR the F-89J would get).
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We also don’t have radiation or EMP damage modeled in game. Radars don’t like eating high energy particles neither do the planes computers.
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I find it interesting how people are saying no on the basis that the default nuke planes would be useless. That’s a good thing isn’t it? Just like the strike UCAVs provide regular CAS if you haven’t researched a plane suitable for the BR and the three free tanks/SPAA are there if you haven’t researched a whole lineup. The whole point is to give you a (slightly worse) lineup to work with if you can’t have a full lineup for whatever reason
the default nuke planes can be the (slightly worse) nuclear aircraft if you haven’t researched a better one yourself
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So basically option to use own grinded aircraft as nuke carrier… for normal battles would be fine, maybe? Obviously would cost as much rp as any other nuke + cost of other wepons more than standard stock nuke carrier.
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For me it’s less about the default nuke planes being useless and more about the imbalance this would introduce when it comes to the ability to deliver nukes.
Plus, it already is too easy to deliver a nuke with the default planes thanks to the map design, no need to let people use even better planes.