[Maksio58]

So i was toying around with FRED recent, testing various ideas. After playing the Derelict campain i decided to toy aroun with the idea of marking targets for beam artilery with TAGs.

So i starded out with a Hecate and replaced its BGreen with an LRBGreen. I locked that turret so it dindnt fire on its ow. Then placed a rakshasa far away and made an event that would make the Hecate fire that beam on it when its taged. After testing, the beam hit but left the cruiser with 1% hull. I wanted it to fire  every time i tag the, so i looked into the event. However i cahnged the wrong number. Instead of trigger count i set the repeat count to 999. This created a suprising effect. The turret would fire multiple beams 1 after the other (actualy it would fire the next one before the previous 1 faded) untill the TAG weares of or the target is destroyed.

 This weapon is able to take out a Sathanas in under 2 minutes if you keep it TAGed!

[Rodo]

May the beamz rain over all our enemies.

There are some other fancy stuff you can do in FRED, keep digging

[karajorma]

Instead of trigger count i set the repeat count to 999.

I don't think that's the cause so much as the repeat delay not being high enough. By default it's one second which means you'll get a new beam every second.

[Qent]

There's a SEXP that makes a specific turret fire only at TAGged targets.

[headdie]

what is interesting is that sexp events can override fire delays

[Droid803]

Only for beams.
Until we get fire-turret, which I've heard is non-trivial.