Re-imagining the Damage Pulse

[Lecic]

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Here is a picture from the Clone Wars series and this is pretty much exactly how I envision it, a large disk that can either deal damage to a large number of ships or a large area on one.

That would be very cool, but I'd still like there to be omni-directional pulses. Since this would be much further range, maybe this would be great for the Pulse + Beam combo?

 

[jzimmerman4]

That would be very cool, but I'd still like there to be omni-directional pulses. Since this would be much further range, maybe this would be great for the Pulse + Beam combo?

While a pulse in all directions is cool no one ever uses it in a practical way since the damage is spread over too large of an area and a lot of the actual pulse never hits anything.

 

[ltmauve]

Yeah, plus then we can make launchers that work through docked ships.

 

[Lecic]

While a pulse in all directions is cool no one ever uses it in a practical way since the damage is spread over too large of an area and a lot of the actual pulse never hits anything.

The radius of the other pulse types could be increased.

 

[Megacrafter127]

I may have a solution for all sides: http://starmadedock.net/threads/new-effect-vector-effect.3348/

 

[jzimmerman4]

I may have a solution for all sides: http://starmadedock.net/threads/new-effect-vector-effect.3348/

That would be interesting to have an effect change the properties of weapons. I'd be down for that.

 

[deathsoul097]

I personally would just prefer the Pulse to fire in a cone, with a max range under 500. Beam would extend the cone, Missile would widen the cone, Pulse would scale down but increase damage from the cone, and cannn would rapidfire. I would also like Cannon/Missile to have a slightly lower spread, but thats a convo for another time.

 

[jzimmerman4]

Since there are now a lot of new players I would like to hear people's opinion on this again!