posted on November 17th, 2011, 3:10 pm
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Tryptic on November 17th, 2011, 3:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
The number of hardpoints a weapon has is unrelated to how many shots it fires and its firing arc, but I get what you're saying. I like the idea of greatly increasing firepower but losing the ability to focus it, but on the other hand it could cause a lot of visual clutter and take up a lot of resources since each weapon would switch targets continually. Ships in Fleet Ops turn quickly, so the separate firing arcs wouldn't mean very much to a seasoned player. The only annoyance would be that he can't choose the target: because he's giving move orders, the ship defaults to the lowest defense enemy.
Even these micro issues wouldn't be so bad, but still I think the visual clutter and lag are enough to doom the idea.
On the other hand, I like the idea of a unique ship that starts out with multitargeting weapons that are tied into one group as it ranks up, allowing it to focus fire on ships more effectively. I know it makes less sense in the game universe but the mechanic would be interesting in the game.
As for renaming the odfs, that's very smart. And it wouldn't take much effort on the devs' part to rename the weapons in the odf spawning script. They would have to tweak it a bit in the case of ships with several of the same type such as the Cehlaer so it produces beam1 and beam2.
