A pirates life for me... - Page 69

Pax · #**681** February 21st, 2003, 06:56 AM

And if you don't mind having to get in close ... the Gravy Gun is gravy. 8) With LOTSA lumps ... for the other side. Heh.

480 damage ... low-tech and 480 damage ... WOOOO!!!

Suicide Junkie · #**682** February 21st, 2003, 07:03 AM

480 damage? Where?

I see 200 damage & 60kt, for 3.3 damage/kt/turn on the highest-tech one.

In fact, the number 480 only appears twice in the components.txt file... And that is for the rads cost of quantum engines (both armored and not).

dogscoff · #**683** February 21st, 2003, 12:02 PM

Here's the episode of Schlock where "Gravy gun" was first coined.

I recommend reading from the beginning, but not at work, unless your boss thinks it's OK for you to sit there laughing all day long.

Ed Kolis · #**684** February 22nd, 2003, 08:16 AM

Say, if you can't fire APB's into an atmosphere, why can you fire them OUT of an atmosphere... see, they can be mounted on weapons platforms!

{SJ gets mad at my finding all these little bugs and fires an APB in my general direction, along with several of the players from "Horrible Doom" who are waiting for the game to start

}

Nodachi · #**685** February 22nd, 2003, 08:29 AM

Because weapon platforms use special mounts and because the atmosphere gets thinner as you go up.

Pax · #**686** February 22nd, 2003, 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
480 damage? Where?

I see 200 damage & 60kt, for 3.3 damage/kt/turn on the highest-tech one.

In fact, the number 480 only appears twice in the components.txt file... And that is for the rads cost of quantum engines (both armored and not).

The starting Station hull, and a Large Base Mount, give the Gravy Gun III the following damage set:

480 480 480 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Compared to the normal, un-mounted Gravy gun's:

160 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Mind you, the mounted GG takes up 120kT of space, but still ... to range 3, it's 4 damage per kT ... 8)

Sorry , I didn't mean to imply the gun did that in it's BASIC form.

Fyron · #**687** February 22nd, 2003, 01:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Say, if you can't fire APB's into an atmosphere, why can you fire them OUT of an atmosphere... see, they can be mounted on weapons platforms!

{SJ gets mad at my finding all these little bugs and fires an APB in my general direction, along with several of the players from "Horrible Doom" who are waiting for the game to start }

They could be floating weapon platforms.

Ed Kolis · #**688** February 22nd, 2003, 09:12 PM

Then wouldn't they be satellites?

Hmm, I wonder why Starbases don't get some sort of Colossal Mount now that Warstations get the Massive Mount...

Fyron · #**689** February 22nd, 2003, 11:23 PM

No, satellites are orbital. "Floating" means floating in the atmosphere. Satellites "float" in space in orbit around the planet, not in the atmosphere.

Suicide Junkie · #**690** February 23rd, 2003, 02:26 AM

Okay, so no APBs on platforms, and a super mount for starbases...

Anything else?