Question about Weapon Mounts!?!?

Tough Guy · #1 July 28th, 2002, 09:09 PM

I have been playing SE4 Gold for about 2 weeks and am addicted.

When I make a medium platform and put Anti-Proton Beams it has a range of 6 but my enemies have medium platforms with the same weapon but range is 12. What is the deal and how do I get that range on my platform?

Thanks.

Ragnarok · #2 July 28th, 2002, 09:30 PM

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Originally posted by Tough Guy:
I have been playing SE4 Gold for about 2 weeks and am addicted.

When I make a medium platform and put Anti-Proton Beams it has a range of 6 but my enemies have medium platforms with the same weapon but range is 12. What is the deal and how do I get that range on my platform?

Thanks.

I'm thinking it might be the mount issue. Before you put your weapon on the WP, define what weapon mount to use. I believe there's 3 to choose from. It's on the right hand side, click the button it opens a thing showing the mount types. Pick the biggest one to fit your WP and then that should work. If not then I don't know...

Deathstalker · #3 July 28th, 2002, 09:31 PM

When you go into the ship/unit design screen click the 'weapon mounts' section. This gives a list of options and where they can be applied (IE, Large weapon mounts for small weapon platforms, Huge weapon mounts for Med and Massive for Large weapon plats.) Ships do it the same way (Large for Light Cruisers, Heavy for Battleships and Massive for BaseShips.)

These mounts are 'stored' in the CompEnhancement.txt file and can be altered to fit what you want (ie, modded). There are many mods that add different mounts (Deathstalkers Mount Mod, SJ's P&N, DevnullMod, Proportions, etc). Many of these mods are included on the gold disk under 'extras'.

Baron Munchausen · #4 July 28th, 2002, 10:58 PM

I've seen this same 'why does the other guy have better weapons' question so many times that I'm beginning to think MM needs to alter the UI in the ship design screen somehow or other to make mounts more obvious.

Crazy_Dog · #5 July 29th, 2002, 12:46 PM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
I've seen this same 'why does the other guy have better weapons' question so many times that I'm beginning to think MM needs to alter the UI in the ship design screen somehow or other to make mounts more obvious.

Like use the heavy mount possible by default ?