More weapon ranges

[Aury]

I vote in favor of less powerconsumption for the hanzo blaster.

[george moromisato]

@ george: how do you plan on changing the ranges? speed, lifetime, or combination of the two?

In all cases I will increase lifetime.

[george moromisato]

Okay. I have a couple concerns.

The Urak mass drivers in particular have terribly short range. You haven't addressed them specifically.

Also, the Hanzo has a problem. It draws a lot more power than the dual TEV for the same damage (135 dps for both), but in smaller chunks that suffer more to roundoff error and now less range. It also, with a firerate of 6 doesn't benefit from weapon optimization roms. It's falling further and further into the "noncompetative" category, first with the RC1 boost to TEV damage and now with the range nerf. I'm not against the range nerf, but it needs either to draw less power or do more damage or have some other advantage that's worth the highest power consumption of any level 7 weapon.

About half of the plasma weapons also have problems as I pointed out in another thread, and fixing some of them may involve range tweaks.

I have no problem increasing the Urak mass driver range. The Urak sentinels are probably too weak right now. I'll start by bumping them up to 30 ls (almost double their current range).

[Note: In general, I think it's OK if enemies have weapons that are outclassed by weapons meant for use by the player.]

Good point on the Hanzo. I actually think the dual TeV is a little overpowered for the level (damage-wise). But I agree that we should probably drop its power consumption down. Probably to 50-60 MW.