Bug, Annoyance, or Misunderstanding in weapons?

[Phlagm]

Here are a list of annoying/illogical things I've discovered in my last several hours trying to get a particularly complicated weapon to work:

On the CSTG comand, you can launch any number of different stages on "expire" however, if you use "findprox" it'll only launch the first. My workaround has been to launch a dummy particle that will immediately die and launch the particles I want on expire. So that problem was discovered and worked around after too long.

My new problem is that I don't know what the hell the "relative" FLAG is for, since everything appears to come out at a relative velocity. I'm attempting to make a missile that will fire stationary objects as it moves along. But if it drops them and they have zero speed, they just cruise along with the missile. I can roughly correct for this particular effect by setting the initial speed of the particles to negative the missile's speed in the x and zero everywhere else. Unfortunately they still drift, and as the missile wiggles around they just get flung off randomly, or if my ship is moving, watch out! I've made sure NOT to use the relative flag, but so far as I can tell all projectiles come off relative no matter what. Is it just for particle effects? And if so, can we have an "absolute" flag from the projectiles, so we can make objects that sit in space?

Furthermore, it doesn't look like "slowdown" does anything on the main projectile. This makes me very sad as I was hoping to use it to simulate a bomber effect on a weapon.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

Also, we should work on a page that details exactly what fields work where on the weapons, as that is sorely lacking. Right now I just have a stripped-down missile I use to experiment randomly with flags.

-Jeremy