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Author Topic: Make Plasma Cannons NOT fire at fighters or frigs.  (Read 2421 times)

Midnight Kitsune

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Make Plasma Cannons NOT fire at fighters or frigs.
« on: April 24, 2017, 05:21:32 PM »

(Put this in here as it is more of a suggestion than a bug, I hope)
Just as the title states, Plasmas should not autofire at something like a frig and ESPECIALLY a fighter!
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Megas

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Re: Make Plasma Cannons NOT fire at fighters or frigs.
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2017, 05:26:27 PM »

I want plasma cannon to autofire at frigates.  Now that fighters are missiles, plasma cannon could ignore them.
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Re: Make Plasma Cannons NOT fire at fighters or frigs.
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2017, 06:10:50 PM »

Manually swatting them with one is fun, tho.
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Re: Make Plasma Cannons NOT fire at fighters or frigs.
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2017, 06:56:56 PM »

Didn't strike weapons used to not fire at fighters and frigates? Maybe change plasma into a strike weapon?

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Re: Make Plasma Cannons NOT fire at fighters or frigs.
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2017, 07:15:01 PM »

Plasma cannon is good at alpha strike, but it is useful as an all-purpose assault weapon if the ship can support it.
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Re: Make Plasma Cannons NOT fire at fighters or frigs.
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2017, 08:01:53 PM »

But don't you just love when your plasma cannon fires at Talons and hits nothing but their swarmers? :D
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Re: Make Plasma Cannons NOT fire at fighters or frigs.
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2017, 08:08:58 PM »

I think heavy weapons should have pass-through mechanics now (maybe at partial loss of projectile damage and range after each kill). There are too many fighters and missiles to let them easily block plasma shots or HIL beam.
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Re: Make Plasma Cannons NOT fire at fighters or frigs.
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2017, 08:11:01 PM »

Plasma cannon has passthrough (at least in 0.7x).  Does not help very much in practice.
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