Moar Luv 4 Zenith

Speaking of stupidly powerful ridiculously awesome FFA superporc-ecofest game-ending technology...

Everyone goes for Detriment and Starlight, and I just think that's a shame when there's a perfectly good weapon which RAINS METEORS on your enemy just sitting there like the shy girl nobody asks to dance. As long as we're tweaking the balance of Scorchers and Panthers and whatnot, maybe it's time to give the Zenith some love too?

How about this: make the Zenith overdrivable. Allow it to optionally attach to an energy grid, and for every singu's worth of power have it increase the number of meteors by, say, 15% or 20% of the baseline. That way, if the rain of meteors isn't doing the job quite well enough, you can just make it RAIN HARDER. But you can do it in an incremental fashion, rather than having to spend all that time to make a second Zenith to get double the rate. Also, overdriving the Zenith would be somewhat more efficient in terms of metal cost than building a second one.

Letting the Zenith be overdrivable might give it the buff it needs to get built more often without reducing the barrier to entry such that it would be underpriced or overpowered for game-ending tech.

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What about make it shoot large meteors whit much damage, not like current small rocks

Also more accurate cause now it just gives enemy metal to reclaim...

quote: speaking of which, is there a map with no metal spots but meteor shower for metal income??

Krog Launch. I'd link it if it wasn't broken.

just needs moar power

Let it launch the overdriving hardware (windgens, solars, singus).

As it is stupidly powerful ridiculously awesome FFA superporc-ecofest game-ending technology it might as well launch singus at the enemy. It could at least damage the enemy instead of feeding them metal as the meteors bounce harmlessly off the megasized shield networks.

At the risk of sounding ignorant, what do you mean with "It doesn't have any trigonometry."?

Zenith involves shooting from up above at an angle -> trigonometry involved.
DRP fires... in an arc... which involves trigonometry for the ballistic curve/targeting (like every other ballistic missile) i guess?
Silencer -> similar to zenith in that it flies in an angle after the upward phase.

Maybe the code is against me here, but rocks fly at an angle, too. The further you aim, the more they move laterally. But maybe that speed scales linearly with aiming distance, thus requiring no trigonometry.

The most interesting trigonometric aspect about the starlight is probably the fixed angular aiming velocity, making it sooooooo slow near the origin...

quote: Even DRP has aiming delays and it shoots fairly low.

...if you're not using high arc (which has its own set of drawbacks).