Has anyone wondered why there are no lasers?

[Baron Munchausen]

The tech definitions are rather poorly done, but the weapons you desribe are actually in there. The "Depleted Uranium Cannon" is more properly called a MASS DRIVER and if it's done by magnetically accelerating an iron/steel projectile then it's a "gauss cannon". I've objected to the name "Depleted Uranium Cannon" more than once since there are lots of ways to implement 'mass drivers' without depleted uranium but MM doesn't seem inclined to change it. The two basic 'energy weapons' of the game are actually particle beams. 'Anti-proton' beam and 'Meson' bLaster. Yet they are in tech fields called 'Energy Stream' and 'Energy Pulse' weapons. Heh... Like I said, the tech definitions are not very good. Probably too many things to do actually programming the game so he never got around to making these things consistent.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 04 April 2001).]