Weapon ideas

[Friday]

My suggestions, some based on others already mentioned:

1) A single 'ZAP' beam weapon. Speed up to 1400 with a long projectile is quite adequate for this (saw one in Rebalance Mod). Or really just up the speed on small ship guns generally to speed up combat compared to fighting caps!

2) Short range 'flame' weapon. Use the max refire rate (I think 8.33 is the desired cap?), and a nice reddish plasma-puff effect, the one that is already in use for Rheinland plasma guns.

3) New Capital ship forward guns. Use a power-up system the same as starting Cruise Engines! In fact use the exact same effect (all other guns offline), only with a mega-blast out of the forward gun...and give one to the Mon'Star;)

4) Long-range cruise/interceptor missile. Better speed and tracking than a Nova - but with more delayed tracking activation and lower acceleration.

5) Crossfire Mod has a system for giving guns lighting effects on the projectile - looks quite interesting!

6) Rather than invent new missiles - increase the tracking and speed of lower level missiles.

7) CMs that spurt out multiple objects in different vectors - same with minelayers. Brightly coloured CMs that look like flares.

8) As opposed to CMs that are short-lived 'flares', longer lived decoys that actually fly away on a vector - could even draw away NPCs for a short time...MAYBE at long range (outside scanner, but within visible sensor or even clickable sensor range) it mimics the name and IFF of the person who launched it! I would give this a cargo space requirement as it is pretty sophisticated...

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