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Quote from: BasileusMaximos on October 06, 2018, 03:27:01 AMI'm not trying to argue whether larger beam weapons are better than smaller beam weapons or vice-versa, just that more customizable beam weapons would be a good idea.I like the idea of, instead of limiting by focal length, allowing any focal length and having an efficiency that gets better with tech. In other words, at laser tech 1 you could have a 40 cm laser, but it would be a power hog and very large. With better tech it would become more power and mass efficient, and have a better range, but you could still have a massive laser at lower tech levels, if that's what you wanted. Kurt
I'm not trying to argue whether larger beam weapons are better than smaller beam weapons or vice-versa, just that more customizable beam weapons would be a good idea.
Quote from: Kurt on October 06, 2018, 01:00:38 PMI like the idea of, instead of limiting by focal length, allowing any focal length and having an efficiency that gets better with tech. In other words, at laser tech 1 you could have a 40 cm laser, but it would be a power hog and very large. With better tech it would become more power and mass efficient, and have a better range, but you could still have a massive laser at lower tech levels, if that's what you wanted. Yeah I think so too. Crude but huge low tech beam weapons would be cool, especially for stuff like railguns! It would probably require a rework of most beam weapons though for consistency, and I think I would prefer to see any version of C# Aurora released before such a thing happens.
I like the idea of, instead of limiting by focal length, allowing any focal length and having an efficiency that gets better with tech. In other words, at laser tech 1 you could have a 40 cm laser, but it would be a power hog and very large. With better tech it would become more power and mass efficient, and have a better range, but you could still have a massive laser at lower tech levels, if that's what you wanted.