New attack with cooldown.

Ramming Speed. Rams your ship into the opposing ship, ignores damage caps and does massive damage to the other ship. Your own ship would also take damage. Each ship would take damage proportionate to it's size. (ie, a LSB vs SSB, the large ship would cream the small ship, giving a nice disadvantage to ssb's during pvp.) The cooldown prevents it from being abused.

Since it's direct hull to hull contact, it also ignores shields. Can be used on other players, and also NPC's.


HA, go ahead everyone, tear this idea up! Or add to it!

Interesting idea in an old-school steam punk kinda way.
However, given it is "hull to hull contact", surely hull should be the defining characteristic for damage rather than number of decks alone.
Flying a large glass cannon into a heavily armored nugget would surely only result in a large fireball and no more glass cannon.

whose ships dmg caps make them invulnerable to everything.

This has been an idea suggested a number of times over the couple years I've been here, but it doesn't lessen my support of this.

This would be a great way to counteract those frustrating slow rankers whose ships dmg caps make them invulnerable to everything.

And this is just a good attack option that makes sense. +1 a bunch of times.

It's ramming, so you'd have to drop out of lightspeed and line up the attack. Have the "speed" be based on a selectable target distance and commensurate energy cost which determines how much time it'll take to ram them, and then pop up an alert on the enemy ship that notifies them of the impending ram, with a link to your ship. Optionally allow the target to dodge based on defense and an energy cost, or counter-ram, dropping the time of impact and increasing the damage.