Has anything really changed?

[Suicide Junkie]

Arcing weapons? You don't often fight near black holes...

I did submit a fairly simple proposal for generalized submunitions, which would have allowed you to simulate area of effect, along with "cone of death" stuff, supply stealing shuttles going to the enemy and coming back, chain lightning type stuff and more.

[Onomatopoeia]

Suicide Junkie said:
Arcing weapons? You don't often fight near black holes...

I did submit a fairly simple proposal for generalized submunitions, which would have allowed you to simulate area of effect, along with "cone of death" stuff, supply stealing shuttles going to the enemy and coming back, chain lightning type stuff and more.

I'm not sure what you meant about the black holes, unless there is some physics point I'm missing here. I don't think I made myself clear the first time, but I mean the chain-lightning weapons you refer to.
When you say 'submit a proposal', do you mean ask Aaran for it to be implemented? Or have you found a way to introduce them into a game? Please forgive my ignorance, I don't actually own the game yet.

[Phoenix-D]

By damage types I mean things like "half to shields" "skips armor" and the like. But yeah, you could make a weapon type that only targets quantum and ion engines, leaving the other types alone.

[Suicide Junkie]

It was a suggestion to Aaron.

Basically, an addition to the damageTypes.txt file that specified additional weapons to spawn/fire when the original shot detonates. Plus formulae to determine what should be targetted and which direction the new weapons would travel in.

[boran_blok]

I have another suggestion for Aaron, use XML in the next Space Empires, building 3rd party editors is going to be soooo much easier.