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A question to everyone

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Post Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:39 am

A question to everyone

Ok i am making a specific type of weapon....i have a gut instinct it might be considered..Taboo...if it were to work as planned.

I am using the basis of the EMP weapons to make a specific weapon...energy based and or ammo based...(permitting if i can do so through the ini's.)

The concept is to immediately shut an opposing ship down...5-7 seconds basically attacking the cruise engines and the power generator and making the ship vulnerable to attack..(as long as the sheild goes down as planned since i am making them use a power draw.)....would this be a taboo weapon....if so i will NOT complete the work on it .... no need to make something as bad a cloak ya know

thanks for your answers.


"To live is to die....but living is to die slowly..why waste time on trivial things just play as hard as you can"

Post Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:47 am

The word "lol" springs to ming. You cannot make a new gun, then go load it up on your client files and waltz onto a server and decimate everyone - it doesn't work like that. You also cannot make it have 100000000 damage cause either - as the damage line is taken from the servers side as well (ergo - making a class one do 10000000 damage and logging onto a server gets you.......nothing). There are plenty of weapons mods that let you cheat online already - so I am pretty darned certain nothing is going to happen from your idea.

However, no doubt some haters will post in the comments section if released to the public - but if its a brand new gun - then their moans are mute due to it not being used on servers.

By the way - this has been done, and you can still use thrusters. You cannot drain the thruster power - so they can still move anyway.

SO if its for SP - then you will have to:

Give NPC's proper power plants rather than the unlimted ones
Remove the thruster use from the pilots behaviour etc - OR remove them from the loadouts of the ships.

Edited by - Chips on 9/21/2004 12:48:25 PM

Post Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:54 am

Thanks chips, i have made proper adjustments to the power plants for that reason...but i did not even concider the fact the thruster would still be functional oh well guess it is no better than the good ole emp mine...

back to the idea board lol (damn it)

is there a way to make the thruster require a power draw from the generator?...cause that couls make things interesting



"To live is to die....but living is to die slowly..why waste time on trivial things just play as hard as you can"

Edited by - Dark_Shadow2004 on 9/21/2004 12:54:31 PM

Edited by - Dark_Shadow2004 on 9/21/2004 12:56:08 PM

Post Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:15 pm

No. The power genrator defines thruster fuel capacity and recharte rate of a ship, but uses values that are different from the weapon energy, and are not affected by pulse/emp in any way.

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