[Solatar]

We're going to have laser weapons in the UW. I am going to base capital ship combat mainly on lasers, except for torpedoes. Dogfights will rely on machine guns, though the player will have an array of laser weapons to use also.

[Unknown Target]

BTW: Shotgun!? You've got to be out of your mind! It better be weaker than the ML-16, is all I can say!

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Hades
We're going to have laser weapons in the UW.

Hades, that's not what we agreed on before.  We both agreed - on 11/23 - that we would eliminate lasers in the UW and have them exclusively in the T-V war.  Here is the dialogue.

Originally posted by Goober5000
Save the lasers for the TVW (there will be plenty of opportunities then).  The less FS1 technology in the UW, the better, I think.  As someone said several weeks ago, imagine what you would have to take out if you went from FS2 to FS1, and then do the same from FS1 to the TVW, and even further from the TVW to the UW.

Originally posted by Hades
I'm having at least one laser weapon. The rest can be ballistic, but one laser weapon will exist, although it is not that powerful.

Originally posted by Goober5000
If you really want to have a laser..., then

Nahh... I stand by my original point. NO LASERS. Not in the Unification War. In the T/V war, go to town. But in the Unification War, no lasers.

Originally posted by Hades
Works for me.

Now you're changing your mind again.  And you were starting to change your mind again with the beams as well.  Please be consistent.  If you want to make any major changes, take them to the T-V war internal forum and discuss them first.

[size=0]Sheesh...[/size]

[Solatar]

Sorry guys, but me and Goober5000 are going to take this into the Internal forum.

[Anaz]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
BTW: Shotgun!? You've got to be out of your mind! It better be weaker than the ML-16, is all I can say!

shotgun-style weaponry (I hope...) that shoots out a ton of little pellets. Not specifically a 12-guage...

[Solatar]

It is a .pcx that has a bunch of pellets on it. It has a slow refire rate, but it is pretty powerful. I have gotten a new sound for it also. An actual shotgun sound.

[Raptor]

Originally posted by Shrike
Ship-launched missiles/torpedoes is my suggestion.

I agree with Shrike.  For a fleet without beam or flak tech, missiles are the way to go.  I have a campaign idea bouncing around that involves The GTA 1st fleet developing big kick *** missile weapons instead of beams and flak.

'Shivan Demon class destroyer warpping in 10km off port bow sir!'

"Gunnery Control, target the Demon."

'Aye sir, targeting Demon.  Forward Exocet Missile tubes armed and ready.'

"FIRE!"

and 20 seconds later, 2 500 MT warheads mark the destruction of a Demon...

[Galemp]

Heh... remember the ending cutscene to Descent 3? THAT's the kind of missiles I want to see.

[Solatar]

I never beat descent 3. I sucked at that game.

[neo_hermes]

No Beams that's a no no.
For something like torpedo's and other missile type's.  why don't you use the Vasudan targeting laser. i think this could solve the problem.

[Solatar]

I didn't know the Targeting laser was Vasudan.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by neo_hermes
For something like torpedo's and other missile type's.  why don't you use the Vasudan targeting laser. i think this could solve the problem.

What problem?

[Nuclear1]

Originally posted by Shrike
Ship-launched missiles/torpedoes is my suggestion.

TVWar is doing something like that (or was it AP? i dunno....).

[Solatar]

I'm doing the TVWar, we're just doing the UW for  little bit of fun, for a demo, and to see exactly what we can do.

we are using torpedos and such.

[Deepblue]

Originally posted by Hades
It is a .pcx that has a bunch of pellets on it. It has a slow refire rate, but it is pretty powerful. I have gotten a new sound for it also. An actual shotgun sound.

I was about to say I already did that but aparrently you have beet me to the punce. Shotgun weapons are pretty cool

[Solatar]

Deepblue, do you have access to the TVWP INternal forum yet?

[Goober5000]

He needs an avatar, too.

[Solatar]

He's got an avatar. Thanks Shrike.

[Goober5000]

30,000th post in this forum!

And I'll celebrate by pointing the way to my ballistic primary conversion for the Source Code Project!

EDIT: Bah.  Trust Knight Templar to interfere...

Oh well. 30,001st post!!!

EDITed for tone

[Knight Templar]

_Um.. excuse me?

I trust you meant that in a friendly sort of "What's up B? Watchin' the Game, Havin' a Bud" sort of a tone..

Besides, it's important!


Oh, don't be a foo, stay in skoo, sucka'.

Don't be an imbissle, stick wit yo missle  ( )