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I think Tortuga has been playing Sonic Adventure 2 :P
This beam cannon idea sounds very much like the 60 ring power laser :P
This beam cannon idea sounds very much like the 60 ring power laser :P
Sounds like a good idea. It's high power-level wouldn't be too much of an issue since it would be almost impossible to his a small, fast-moving target with one, making it an anti-cap-ship weapon, a good complement to the Avalon. I say, crank up the power by quite a bit, and have it so that any one-man ship that it touches will be almost instantly vapourized, like the beam cannons in FreeSpace 2.
Hm, let me give you a little scenario.
I have this beam weapon with incredible strength and range. (range outside of radar range is just pointless, so limit it to the range of radar)
I enter a sector where 2 people are constantly dueling. I tell them I am non-hostile, just wanted to watch duel and get pointers. It's a vailid request, and I promise to keep my distance.
Lte's say they are using valks for arguements sake, I watch a few rounds and bet bored. So while one of the players waits without moving for the other character to return, I hit I and zoom in, I then hit fire and fry the poor soul in a matter of seconds. most likely, he would be totally unsuspecting, and might even be typing.
so he dies, I win without even needing to move my ship. and then I have plenty of time to run back to a safe sector.
Sorry, no.
if you enter a heavily trafficed area, you would have to assume EVERYONE within radar range has this weapon so you must watch all of them.
Being able to see a ship charge up is ggreat, if you are 100 m away, but what about 1k without zooming, you have no idea.
It would be abused and everyone would demand that it would be removed from the game.
(PS: Devs- How about a little icon shown over ships so we know when they are typing, like in Jedi Knight II?)
I have this beam weapon with incredible strength and range. (range outside of radar range is just pointless, so limit it to the range of radar)
I enter a sector where 2 people are constantly dueling. I tell them I am non-hostile, just wanted to watch duel and get pointers. It's a vailid request, and I promise to keep my distance.
Lte's say they are using valks for arguements sake, I watch a few rounds and bet bored. So while one of the players waits without moving for the other character to return, I hit I and zoom in, I then hit fire and fry the poor soul in a matter of seconds. most likely, he would be totally unsuspecting, and might even be typing.
so he dies, I win without even needing to move my ship. and then I have plenty of time to run back to a safe sector.
Sorry, no.
if you enter a heavily trafficed area, you would have to assume EVERYONE within radar range has this weapon so you must watch all of them.
Being able to see a ship charge up is ggreat, if you are 100 m away, but what about 1k without zooming, you have no idea.
It would be abused and everyone would demand that it would be removed from the game.
(PS: Devs- How about a little icon shown over ships so we know when they are typing, like in Jedi Knight II?)
Maybe an audio warning for when a nearby player is charging the weapon would help.
Give everyone in the sector an "Incoming homing weapon" beep.
TortugaMan's weapon is really quite usable actually, make it take up 4 large slots, and so it would only be usable on capital ships, like to clear asteroid fields in it's path...Or use against other capital ships while it's fighter escorts take down smaller ships...