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Old January 8th, 2003, 10:52 PM
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Default Re: New Weapon Concepts

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Originally posted by Ruatha:
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Originally posted by Slick:
From SFB really, but maybe make some weapons that have a "myopic zone" where the damage is 0 at close ranges (i.e 0 0 0 50 40 30 20 10 0 ...) Makes a ship good for ranged attacks but vulnerable to a point blank attack.

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I like that one, maybe 0 0 0 10 20 30 40 30 20 10 0 0 though?
The model is from a weapon in Star Fleet Battles called a Plasmatic Pulsar Device. It had very complicated rules, but the part that can be implemented in SE4 is the myopic zone. Its damage decreased somewhat linearly outside range 3.

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