So far I'm surprised that no major (or minor) mention of this has come up, so here goes.
We all know that we can put the "$Swarm: ###" in a primary weapon entry and, if the gun is mounted on a multipart turret, it will fire multiple rounds each fire cycle. We also know that on regular pillbox turrets, the shots only fire straight out from the turret normal.
With that detailed, here's what I put forth to the coders.
My requests are to 1) build on or bypass using the $Swarm entry, the general aim being trying to effect something that could be passed in 2 arguments: One to define how many shots per fire cycle, and another to define the delay between the individual shots (in milliseconds), and 2) fix the normal bug for the pillbox turrets.
An example of the purpose of this would be to make something like a plasma gatling gun for, say, the beam clusters on
Hamano's Orion Phase II that doesn't require a hellspawned stack of SEXP entries to dictate their actions.
