New Weapon Ideas?

[FroMcJoe]

Yes.

Gauss Weapons: long rang (should be infinite), very powerful, very fast projectile speed, very slow refire, very very accurate, weak against shields but very very powerful against haul, lots of energy consumption and you have to buy the rounds (since its a projectile weapon)

Capitol Ship Torpedo Tubes: long rang, very powerful, slow projectile speed, very slow refire, they can be shot down by enemy fire, each fire you shoot 4 torps (you could have some weapons that fire spreads and some that don't). These would hopefully be put on specially made Torpedo Boats that would carry like five launchers and a few defense weapons. The ships would be used for stand off spraying or close quarter charges.

Beam Weapons: you could have it so the gun shoots faster than the chainguns with really little projectiles so it looks continuous. Each level of weapon would fire longer before it "overheats" or you run out of energy. These weapons would be supper accurate (it would have a very small beam) and pretty powerful against the shield and somewhat deadly against the haul. These will eat energy and could only be used on Capitol Ships.

Rocket Pods: like the screamer pods of Starlancer, it would be on bombers and fighters. Each click fires 10 dumb-fire rockets in a salvo. Fast but with some spread (if it could be done to be random) they would not be powerful individually but if all 10 hit its powerful. Really shot range, you need to get almost on top of the ship to hit them (think the Helicopter attack in Apocalypse Now). Amo would be cheap.

Jammer Pods: It would take up a hard point but each time you fire it, it makes the enemies attacking you loose the leading crosshair. Each level would improve the distance and the duration of the jamming. Big energy drainer.

Ion Weapons: They would disable ships cruising ability (like a cruise disruptor, but for a shorter time than the really powerful disruptors), do A LOT of shield damage and hurt the power core and make it recharge at a slower rate (same for the thrusters). You could make the Liberty Cruiser's Main Gun an Ion Cannon but smaller ships could field weaker versions as well.

As a noob who can model or code I have no idea how to do any of this but I think that these are good ideas!