Weapon ideas

[farmerman]

Oh my, do I have plenty of ideas!

First of all, Lugers should be made prettier than solid blobs of color. I suggest a combination of green and cyan, like Destroyers are green and yellow.

BHG gunboat turrets (not sure on the large capship varieties) are really boring - I suggest making them the color of the fighter guns. Possibly with the Cerberus shape.

Class 8 Gaian and BHG guns should be made to look like the class 9 variety, too.

Making the Gunboat battle razor looks prettier would be quite nice, too. Not real ideas on that though.

A Darkmatter Cannon. Now, there's plenty of it in Galileo and the like. Here's my thoughts: Visually, have it similar to the Lazurite, but a combination of dark blue/purple, with a particle weapon type trail that's white. It would be a torpedo slot gun, like the Mini Razor, but would be primarily shield damage, but a bunch less than the Inferno (with faster speed and still low refire). The difference, though, would be when it hit - it would have a CD effect. If it had limited range, it would be effective at helping to stall some transports, but mainly as a utility gun that could stop pesky engine killing fighters.

More civilian guns. Right now there are the Flashpoints and a couple assorted fast particle weapons. I'd like to see an off-speed Neutron gun (3.03 or 5.88 speed) on the civilian market, too. The same with a Tachyon gun. Zoner photon guns are widely available, so that's not as needed. But definitely a civilian plasma gun!

There's also a distinct lack of yellow guns. The Vampire series used to be, but it's much more dramatic and un-yellow now. One of the new civilian guns should be yellow.

A Paralyzer Torpedo would also be neat. Damage similar to the Screamer mine, but with a bit of a delay (combined with ammo usage, it'd give the option for an anti-shield torpslot weapon to more groups while letting the Inferno still stand apart).

Class 8 missiles. Seriously.

If I come up with any more, I'll make sure to post. I distinctly recall having other ideas before, but I can't recall at present.

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