Decrease Spread On Shotgun Weapons

[jath]

I was actually planning on making a full write up from a shotgunner/gun-smith's perspective on this subject, with pictures, graphs, and shotgun philosophy. I am only going to post here to say that I agree with the above, but I'm still going to make a separate thread with my write up as I believe it will get lost at the 21st comment on this thread. Please check out the thread when I'm finished, I'll link it here at that time.

 

[jath]

http://starmadedock.net/threads/shotgun-breakdown-philosophy-usage-and-theory.6641/#post-94014

 

[whooplaah]

Consider the argument from this thread: http://starmadedock.net/threads/shotgun-breakdown-philosophy-usage-and-theory.6641/

In summary:
jath pointed out that bird-hunting uses a 1:40 spread, meaning that for every 40 meters the ammo travels the radius of the impact grows by 1 meter. This results in a 50% hit rate at 300 meters. Currently the game uses a 1:5 spread, meaning for every 5 meters it travels the radius of impact grows by 1 meter. This has a 50% accuracy at 50 meters, and get's worse from there.

Edit:
I didn't see jath 's post until after I posted this. Sorry for the repeat.