[Arralen]

Arralen said:
Primary/Secondary (Ship) Weapon Mounts and Weapons types are mixed up
Atrocities :I have given due consideration to this issue and while I fully understand your point of view, and agree with it, have decided that it would require to much work and effort to change at this point in time.

I can understand that.

I had to go back to my original notes from way way back and in those notes I found that I had chosen to use pulse weapons as secondary weapons because the intermittent beams were used by many sci-fi shows such as BSG, Buck Rogers, Star Wars, and such in an anti-fighter way. Also people wanted pulse weapons and I had to come up with a way to make them useful in the mod. Also sustained beams, in star trek and other shows, have been historically used as the POWER weapon. Since they only fired a single beam, they were not efficient enough to be used for targeting smaller objects.

Concerning Star Trek, IMHO and AFIAK you're wrong: There are very few pulse weapons. And those are used to punch through heavy shielding, not spray some "area" of space to hit a strafing fighter-bombers, pardon: space fighters. Even small targets like shuttles or fighters are generally fired at with beam weapons. I can't even remember seeing a real PD weapon once ... Examples are Defiant (4x Type-U pulse phasors mounted with very limited forward firing arc) and (nearly) all other "modern" federation or cardassian vessels which mount large-array beam weapons with wide firing arc. Those are deployed against all targets.

An interesting discussion on "pulse phasors" (proves my point, basically)
http://bbs.furryconflict.com/viewtop...c0508099b6ea22

I'm not sure, though, how to make SE4 use pulse phasors as primary weapon on some vessels and beam phasors on all the others of the same race ?!