Capital Ship Missiles

[McNeo]

Aye there is a point, but the emery weapons would actually not disperse for a very long time. They only break up once they enter gravity wells and atmosphere, the air makes the particles separate. Hence, why a person would use a bullet firing gun in a human habitable environment and lasers in space.

Verginix Out

In case you havent noticed, the whole universe interacts with Gravity. Our modest sun has a magnetic field engulfing the entire system including the kuiper belt and the Ort cloud, which are very very far away, though still in our system. What about a star 10 times bigger or a black hole at the centre of a galaxy? They hold our sun in place, and there are many galaxies. So you see, gravity is everywhere and hence energy weapons get affected very easily. Lasers can be used in a ground battle, but they drain huge amounts of power so could only be fitted on somthing quite large, like a cruiser. A laser beam is a concentrated beam of light, and light has a very negligable mass value (though it does have mass otherwise you couldn't bend it).

Energy weapons are possibly the future, as they can be much more concentrated than a nuclear bomb.

Also, Energy weapons, barring the laser, would thiorestically disapate in space because what is holding it all there. Surely the pressure inside a packet of energy would be more than the pressure (0 atmospheres) in space? So hence you get disappation, unless you can arrange the particles in a pressure tight structure. As it stands, we dont even have the weapon yet so it wont happen.

@Igiss: The simple reason for no firearms in a space combat sci-fi is because a red laser cutting things up is much cooler and "futuristic" than a bullet flying at high speed towards the desired target's head. At least thats my understanding of it.

Also, slightly on topic now:lol:, can the view distance be increased in a client side menu. I hate the 5k limit because a person can be on you in an instant and you have no idea what your doing.

eg. Me as a pirate catch a fair amount of traders because i see them on scanners and CD them straight away. They still have no idea whats happening when i start shooting them either. Im more attentive when i trade and i regularly keep the chat menu up to see what my "long range scanners" are picking up.