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Author Topic: Two Plasma Cannons off One [Redacted] Cruiser  (Read 2320 times)

Wyvern

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Two Plasma Cannons off One [Redacted] Cruiser
« on: May 21, 2017, 04:04:48 PM »

...I'm not sure if this is a bug per se; perhaps the fleet had a spare in their cargo holds or something.  But I got one plasma cannon from the immediate after-battle salvage, and a second off scavenging the debris field left behind by the battle, and the enemy fleet only ever had one plasma cannon in the first place...

Seemed odd, so, posted it.
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Gothars

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Re: Two Plasma Cannons off One [Redacted] Cruiser
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2017, 04:11:43 PM »

Yeah, this was reported for the Mudskipper mk.II. It's officially a spare. Probably means it's not a bug that's "buggy" enough to fix :)
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Re: Two Plasma Cannons off One [Redacted] Cruiser
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2017, 09:19:10 PM »

Believe it or not, this is one of those where I was aware of it being a (fairly low chance) possibility while coding the relevant systems. So I suppose that makes it a legitimate feature; the justification at coding-time was "carrying a spare", though the real reason for doing it was it'd be a bear to avoid the possibility entirely given how debris salvaging works.
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