Gaian cannon is officially the most pathetic weapon

[Arisaya]

I mean, at least the centauri recoiless is ammoless and can actually kill stuff above its level.

The Gaian cannon cannot:
Kill the ICS, unlike any other level VIII or IX (there is one X that cannot kill the ICS in practice, but at least it mathematically has a chance of doing so)
Down the shields on a phobos (arguably an even sadder feat of failure, as even certain weapons you can see in eridani can take out the kaidun... yet the demo cannon... cannot.)

to add insult to injury... it takes two slots AND uses the most power of any human weapon, tying with the APA (ares plasma archcannon), which at least does more damage, is ammoless, and... can actually kill stuff, even if being rather ineffective about it. [And saying the APA beats it sure is something coming from me, since everyone knows how much I find the APA is too weak]

[Arisaya]

I did some more calculations.

A CENTAURI RECOILESS can take out a kaidun. Yet the Gaian cannon cannot.

[PM]

The Gaian Demolition Cannon is also extremely heavy, weighing 20 tons.

[Arisaya]

Yeah, it's heavier than even the APA! (APA is 10 tons)

[Song]

Give it, say, twice the power of a Fusionfire, and I might think it was good. But it isn't ATM.

[Androgeos]

And it only has 8 shots.

[Arisaya]

And it only has 8 shots.

This being the biggest issue. Though even if it had unlimitted shots, it still uses far too much power for the damage it delivers.

[Song]

And it only has 8 shots.

This being the biggest issue. Though even if it had unlimitted shots, it still uses far too much power for the damage it delivers.

It at least requires a doubling of charges, and super-buffing of damage.....

But what kind of damage would be useful/balanced?

[Arisaya]

And it only has 8 shots.

This being the biggest issue. Though even if it had unlimitted shots, it still uses far too much power for the damage it delivers.

It at least requires a doubling of charges, and super-buffing of damage.....

But what kind of damage would be useful/balanced?

As atarlost said, it could do 9999d999 damage and nobody (except me) would go for it.

And I would just farm the cannons to farm a few extra phoboses. Because I try to get the most ridiculously high scores just for kicks. Everyone else just wants to win.

Doubling charges still would not be enough; it's a weapon that can never be refilled that uses huge amounts of power like a re-fillable weapon. The power use at the very least must go, followed by more charged & a massive damage buff (more than 2x, as d1gdug did)

[Prophet]

It should a have a unique reload mechanism, like when the weapon destroys a wreck, it sucks in the debris and recharges X shots or have it recharge shots slowly over time or both.

[Arisaya]

Oh, that could be an interesting mechanic...