Capital Ship Missiles

[Igiss]

Yes, there's a line in the definition of any weapon 'uses_ammo = yes (or no)' so you start from there.

Not as easy as you might think.

Amount of ammo in Freelancer is set by ONE constant that determines max ammo for all ships and all weapons (missiles, mines, CDs, CMs) at once. Right now this constant is 70. Nightfall wants this to be lowered; I don't think I'm going to change it. I admit that 70 is too much for powerful missiles and torpedoes, but it isn't much for CMs and less powerful weaponry.

Also take into account that 70 is maximum for all ammo for one weapon type. This makes your idea about ammo for capship missiles absolutely impossible to implement. If max ammo will be upped to 100 or 200, then fighters will get too powerful, and capital ships still won't get enough. If max ammo is 70, ship with 5 missile turrets (not too much, for a battleship at least) will be able to fire 14 shots with its missiles. Then return to base, resupply - top-level fighter missiles cost 7 thousand, so if battleship missiles will cost, say, 20 thousand, resupply will cost 1,5 million - and fire the next 14 shots. For me this sounds ridiculous.

Missiles will be changed, surely. But no ammo. They'll have 30% higher refire (1.5 > 2.0) and significantly increased energy requirements. As for the damage, I didn't make a final decision on that.

Gunboats will not be nerfed in any way, but maneuverability will be reduced. Miner... well, I thought it would be interesting to have a transport capable of equipping gunboat turrets, but since it gets abused, level 8 turret slots will be removed from that ship.