Oolite Bulletins

Is there any possibility of making ships able to have more than one mount point in a particular direction, without using turrets? It's something I'd very much like to be able to do with some of my ships, particularly the Firewasp (if ever I get its OXP to work). I appreciate that it would make a ship very powerful, but there are always ways of balancing that out.

Another thing I wondered about was the possibility of laser 'bullets'... similar to the rapid-fire phasers on the Defiant, and perhaps different classes of missile. Would it be possible to implement those simply with an OXP and a shipyard.plist entry? With both of these, some ships could use them and some couldn't...

On the subject, is there any rationale to the choice of laser colour? On Arc Elite, lasers changed colour to reflect their power (IIRC), whereas here they seem to be quite random.

No, you can’t have more than one laser in a given direction on a player ship. There are several NPC ships which do this with subentities.

The closest thing to “laser bullets” is the plasma cannon. Since the shots move in finite time it’s hard to aim, to the extent of not being at all worthwhile except for playing around a bit. On the other hand, computer-controlled turrets can use them quite well.

Laser colours are indeed an arbitrary per-ship-type setting. I’d personally like to see this changed so that the colour reflects the weapon type.

Ahruman wrote:

No, you can’t have more than one laser in a given direction on a player ship. There are several NPC ships which do this with subentities.

Well, if NPC ships can do it, why can't player ships?

Any thoughts on different classes of missile?