code weapons

[Knucklehead]

5.Add balistic weapons for heavy ships.We in game have 3 different type of turels. Laser(plasma) turels, missle turels and flaks. Balistic weapons will be 4 type of guns,avaliable only for caps ship(GB too), more interesting for long range fight,but will have their minuses (kinda artillery battles on the sea like in reality).

In a way, this is what the Mortar series is all about: Long range, high powered standoff weaponry. They just happen to fire a massive energy ball that could be imagined as an electromagnetic field surrounding a highly explosive core.

As for finding these on wrecks, there are a couple flaws with that idea. First of all, these weapons would need to be tied into the ships' systems so much that it would probably fry the weapon when the ship was destroyed. This isn't the case as much with fighter-class weapons, as they are generally not nearly as powerful as capital-class weapons.

Second, some capital class guns by themselves are large enough to dwarf a starflier, and even some of the smaller freighters. How do you expect a ship's tractor beam to haul something that large in when you can't do so to a ship the size of a starflier? (Although, admittedly, it would be amusing to tractor in a starflier or two. Perhaps Cannon could be persuaded to include that in the Ship Docking mod?;))

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It's official, I have too few ships now...