New Weapon Concepts

Slick · #1 January 8th, 2003, 10:52 PM

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Originally posted by Ruatha:

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Originally posted by Slick:
From SFB really, but maybe make some weapons that have a "myopic zone" where the damage is 0 at close ranges (i.e 0 0 0 50 40 30 20 10 0 ...) Makes a ship good for ranged attacks but vulnerable to a point blank attack.

Slick.

I like that one, maybe 0 0 0 10 20 30 40 30 20 10 0 0 though?

The model is from a weapon in Star Fleet Battles called a Plasmatic Pulsar Device. It had very complicated rules, but the part that can be implemented in SE4 is the myopic zone. Its damage decreased somewhat linearly outside range 3.

Slick.

Timstone · #2 January 8th, 2003, 10:55 PM

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Originally posted by Ruatha:

quote:
Originally posted by Slick:
From SFB really, but maybe make some weapons that have a "myopic zone" where the damage is 0 at close ranges (i.e 0 0 0 50 40 30 20 10 0 ...) Makes a ship good for ranged attacks but vulnerable to a point blank attack.

Slick.

I like that one, maybe 0 0 0 10 20 30 40 30 20 10 0 0 though?

Some time ago (when I first entered this board), I suggested a weapon like this. It was overruled because no weapon in the series would resemble the wepons in The Mod (B5Mod).

Timstone · #3 January 8th, 2003, 10:58 PM

Ruatha: VGA Planets? What's that?

TerranC · #4 January 8th, 2003, 11:19 PM

VGA Planets is one of the grandfathers of 4X gaming. It looks like MOO IMHO.

capnq · #5 January 8th, 2003, 11:26 PM

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From SFB really, but maybe make some weapons that have a "myopic zone" where the damage is 0 at close ranges (i.e 0 0 0 50 40 30 20 10 0 ...)

It would have to be

1 1 1 50 40 30 20 10 0 ...

SE IV interprets the first 0 in the series as "out of range".

Ruatha · #6 January 9th, 2003, 12:24 AM

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Originally posted by TerranC:
VGA Planets is one of the grandfathers of 4X gaming. It looks like MOO IMHO.

Concerning Graphics MOO1 wins easily, but in gameplay VGA planets (And Winplanets) beats Moo1 anyday.
It's a PBEM game, stopped playing it when I found SE4.

Puke · #7 January 9th, 2003, 12:46 AM

VGA planets is possibly the longest played, most detailed space 4x game out there. it is actually too detailed for me, which would not be bad, if it had a better UI.

SJ had a cool idea for a new weapon: biochemical missiles and torps. add boarding defense to crew, brige, and boarding parties. make a weapon that targets 'security stations only.' And thats it. there you go. cheer.