Howdy all:
I'd like to propose a slight adjustment to the $swarm entry in the tables. Swarm is primarily intended for use with missiles like the Hornet and Tornado, but I have seen it employed with pulse and beam weapons to get a turret with multiple firepoints, to fire from all firepoints simultaneously. I myself have attempted this, but I find that, for example, a weapon with a swarm of 2, firing from a turret with 2 firepoints, will result in the 2 shots not being fired simultaneously, but imediately after one another. I'd like to propose a +swarm delay facter to be inserted just after $swarm. Like beams, the time factor would be in milliseconds. If I wanted those 2 shots to fire simultaneously, the table entry would look like this:
$Swarm: 2
+Swarm delay: 0
Now, some mods might want a 2 point turret to send out a continuous stream of shots, but with a considerably reduced fire rate, so a swarm factor of 250 would cause the shots to be ofset from one another by 1/4 of a second. This feature could also be useful for its original intent of swarming missiles. I'm not sure how diffucult this would be to impliment from a coder's perspective, but I'm sure you can see the use and flexibility of such an addition. It unfortunately doesn't do anything about the single beamglow issue when using multi-shot beams.
