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Thargoid Laser
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:59 am
by Neo_Jesus
My friend found a Thargoid laser ...for sale in a black monk monistary i cannot find anything about it on the wiki however....could someone inform me of what it does exactly
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:02 am
by drew
It's green and it kills things?
Sorry, can't really help!
Cheers,
Drew.
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:03 am
by Thargoid
It's an invisible beam, self-targetting weapon but unfortunately it doesn't actually work when fitted on one of your puny human ships 
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:42 am
by Commander McLane
It's just another bug of Realistic Shipyards. Please, ignore it. And as Thargoid already said: It won't work on your ship anyway.
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:41 pm
by TGHC
Yeah, but an obsessed collector would be willing to pay big Cr's for one.
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:36 pm
by Lestradae
Commander McLane wrote:It's just another bug of Realistic Shipyards. Please, ignore it. And as Thargoid already said: It won't work on your ship anyway.
Yep, and a known one at that, and fixed for the upcoming successor of RS.
And really don`t buy it: If you try to look out the window where this laser is installed or try to open your status (F5) or missions (F5-F5) screen, your game will probably crash.
Aegidian put the Thargoid Laser in, and RS switched its TL to a number where it might become buyable under
certain conditions which shall not be named (spoiled). Next version, the Thargoid Laser`s TL will again be 99 (unreachable).
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:32 am
by Commander McLane
TGHC wrote:Yeah, but an obsessed collector would be willing to pay big Cr's for one.
That would be some sick obsession.
He first would have to sacrifice one of his ship's weapons, and second would risk nasty crashes (as per Lestradaes post above here).
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:32 am
by Thargoid
I played with it for a while a few months back (to see if there was anything salvagable with it) and it doesn't crash things, or at least didn't back then.
You just get a "no weapon" cross-hairs (iirc), and it fires like a normal laser would in terms of heat-up and sound. Just no beams appear, and it doesn't do any damage to anything.
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:36 am
by Lestradae
That`s interesting - it did what I described in my game.
Thargoid, could you open the F5 status screen, and if yes, was the Thargoid Laser listed there?
And, which OS are you on again?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:41 am
by Thargoid
WinXP.
This was under 1.71.2 (I'll try it again under 1.72 when I get time).
It shows up as "Thargoid Laser(n/a)" or something like that (the n/a I guess is part of the problems with it). Give me a little while and I'll repeat the test and see what I get and report back.
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:01 am
by Lestradae
Thargoid wrote:It shows up as "Thargoid Laser(n/a)" or something like that (the n/a I guess is part of the problems with it). Give me a little while and I'll repeat the test and see what I get and report back.
Please do
If the Laser could be made to work as intended somehow, I`d have uses for it
Cheers
L
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:13 am
by Thargoid
Just retried it quickly on 1.71.2 under WinXP.
Lists on the equipment screen (F5) as "Aft (nil)" (having purchased an aft TL). On the view screen it's the simple straight line 4-part cross-hair (like a pulse laser iirc). Gives laser temp and sound when fired, but nothing else.
Doesn't crash anything though, at least for me. Will test it on 1.72 later on.
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:39 am
by Commander McLane
I had more or less the same experience as Thargoid. Which still means you can't make it work.
A turreted laser isn't meant to work on the player ship.
And could we please bury this thread at this point?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:39 am
by Lestradae
Commander McLane wrote:And could we please bury this thread at this point?
Well, doesn`t work is doesn`t work. Perhaps it would work as a player ship`s turret ... but that doesn`t make a lot of in-game sense.
So bury it it will have to be
