Instead of high refire weapons, I suggest a reasonably high-damaging, small ranged ones. We are talking 1.00 or perhaps even 0.50 refire close-range burst cannons. Very fast, but with current range. Damaging enough so that a transport with 12 of these can just barely insta a snub if all of them hit (which they won't).
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I then take the minimum HP for VHFs: 9,000
Apply the biggest armor upgrade: *2.5
22,500
Max amount of turrets on any transport are 12.
1,875
That is the damage these things will do.
Biggest transports have 90 000 Us of power.
So let us set the power requirements for this thing at that level. One salvo depletes all of the energy-ish. So that'd be around 7000u.
So this is how it looks like right now. The high power usage will not allow it to be spammed on small ships, such as ATs and Gulls. The only problem would be balancing this thing on ships such as Salvager, which has a GB core.
The forced gun orientation is still there, so you will never be hitting with all of your turrets.
The following video shows the drain and refire as well as efect on a fully decked out snub.
Edit: Also, this is probably why I am not a dev, kek. I just use numbers.
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Step 1 should be to fix it so that they all dont fire if they cannot turn enough to aim.
Otherwise I will continue to use them as my dico-ball light show party ship.
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I'd rather:
- Get rid of them, or,
- Redo them entirely using some magic tricks that allow beams to be actual beams (see: Yuri's dev thread with some Nomad stuff).
Well I'm sure all of you have seen the Nomad Laser Beam gun whatever on one of Treewyrms video, right? Why not turning Zappers into something like that? As I saw it right on the video, they quite work fantastic.