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<chortles> That's something I'd rather like to see applied to quite a few OXPs - stuff like snipersights and target locks.Layne wrote:Of course, to be entirely fair, the bad guys would have to get them as well...
NPC laser cooling boosters have been possible since 1.77 (before then NPCs didn't track laser heat) though only for those NPCs with subentity-mounted weapons.Layne wrote:Of course, to be entirely fair, the bad guys would have to get them as well, and then, *pew pew pew*, there goes your paint job.
Forcing you to fire short bursts of laser. Like a mil laser overheating and cooling down, only faster.Lone_Wolf wrote:laser settings description
[wiki]LaserCannons[/wiki] and New lasers
tweak those settings to create different types of lasers.
a few hypothetical examples :
set damage to 30k , energy to 256 , shot_temperature to 218 .
Put that on a cobra3 and you get a one-shot laser that is capable of destroying a coriolis station but your cobra will have almost no energy left, and your laser will be cold a long time before you can have enough energy to fire a 2nd shot.
set damage, energy , shot_temperature and recharge_rate all to .1 .
This will result in a continously firing laser that will take very very long to destroy anything.
If you describe what kind of behaviour you expect from a gattling laser, we may be able to figure out something.
Are you tried [wiki]Laser Cooler[/wiki] equipment?Paladin Tux wrote:Like a mil laser overheating and cooling down, only faster.
Yes, by replacing the laser to another with negative heat and 0 damage until cooled down.Paladin Tux wrote:once you activate it, you then set shotTemperature to a negative number?
217.6 = 85% of 256.Paladin Tux wrote:What about the heat limit? Does it have to be 217?
No, just a bit more precise and show how calculated, but an OXP can not change it.Paladin Tux wrote:217.6 is 85% of 256? Does that help me?
Offhand, this may be the sort of thing you're thinking of:Paladin Tux wrote:Then is there another way to make a proper gatteling laser?
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9, 30000, "Chain Laser",
"EQ_WEAPON_CHAIN_LASER",
"A rapidly rotating barrel of smaller lasers that fire in sequence. Very effective in short bursts but quick to overheat.",
available_to_all = true;
weapon_info = {
range = 12000;
energy = 0.8;
damage = 15.0;
recharge_rate = 0.2;
shot_temperature = 20.0;
color = "0.75 0.35 0";
threat_assessment = 0.25;
};
)Imho [wiki]Laser Cooler[/wiki] roughly solve this. Most small details are adjustable except that you must keep up firing during cooldown periods.Paladin Tux wrote:I would heat up the laser and quickly cool it down and continue.
10, 60000, "Military Laser",
"EQ_WEAPON_LF_180_MILITARY_LASER",
"Increased power beam laser, developed for Naval use.",
{
condition_script = "oolite-conditions.js";
available_to_all = true;
weapon_info = {
range = 50000;
energy = 1.1;
damage = 60.0;
recharge_rate = 0.1;
shot_temperature = 2.25;
color = "magentaColor";
threat_assessment = 1.0;
