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hey ed, Last time i checked it was Stars! not Stars? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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A reflective shield that causes enemies' attacks to reflect back at them and damage them instead.

A corrosion attack that continues to do damage for several rounds after hitting.

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Similar to the reflective shield, I would add a new computer attack that causes enemies to target ships in their own fleet. It would be fun watching an enemy fleet basically attack itself in tactical combat!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Unless of course it was happening to your fleet. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Is it possible to make a weapon mount that increases the rate of fire? I don't have the txt files here in front of me or I'd check. Like a 'gatling mount', or some such.

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That would be an interesting computer virus. Similar to the Allegiance Subverter but perhaps a more advanced weapon in the Computer Combat line.

This weapon could turn a ship to fire on its allies. Unlike the Subverter, the effect would be temporary, say one or two rounds of tactical combat. I would say one round, but the results would be startling. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Deathstalker's Mount Mod has a "Gatling Mount", but the way he does them is to make them 1/10 the size and damage of normal mounts (so effectively you get 10x as many shots in the same amount of tonnage space). He gave them a small to hit bonus, as well.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Actually, the zeros work fine.
The weapon won't fire at those ranges, but will fire normally if you step back into firing range http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Does having 0's cause any troubles in Strategic combat?

[ January 09, 2003, 19:35: Message edited by: spoon ]

Re: New Weapon Concepts
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Deathstalker's Mount Mod has a "Gatling Mount", but the way he does them is to make them 1/10 the size and damage of normal mounts (so effectively you get 10x as many shots in the same amount of tonnage space). He gave them a small to hit bonus, as well.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I would think that they should recieve a penalty to hit, instead of a bonus... real gatling/chain/miniguns tend to be real innaccurate - they hit mostly from pure rate of fire. The fact that you can have some of them hit instead of the all-or-nothing of a single simple weapon might be all the increase in to-hit that they're due. Just my two pennies tho.

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How about an armor/weapon combo that absorbs an attack and then uses the energy to fire back at the enemy? Sort of like the "Mauler" weapon from SFB coupled with the energy absorbers used by Andromedans in SFB.