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Or Make the new mounts only effective at extended range and impotent at close range,
Range-bonus-mounted weapons have their range 1 damage repeated, and since the damage at range 1 is always the highest damage any (unmodded) weapon does, ER mounts will be good at close range.
Although, you can look at it another way; P&N has a sattelite "Siege" mount, which boosts range, but reduces firepower.
So, if you want to reach out and touch someone, you need the siege mount.
Close in, large mounts are twice as powerful.
That makes the ER mount good at long range, and bad at close range, though not really
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