Speed and Range of Projectiles

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Aeonic wrote:So... is there actually any way to make invisible lasers?
fortunatly for good gameplay, no, there is not. setting the laser to black will show up near stars, in nebulas, and on things that it doesnt collide with. transcendence also flat out refuses to generate an imageless projectile. you can fire that weapon, but iy does nothing more than drain your reactor.
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Actually, if you take out the <effect> attributes of the weapon you can make an invisible weapon. The shots will still show on the map and any shot effects or hit effects will show but the shot itself is invisible. Damage and everything else remain unchanged.
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Prophet wrote:Actually, if you take out the <effect> attributes of the weapon you can make an invisible weapon. The shots will still show on the map and any shot effects or hit effects will show but the shot itself is invisible. Damage and everything else remain unchanged.
How odd... when you have an effect set as a fire-effect (ie, a muzzle flash like on the Hecates cannon), the projectile won't work.

No invisible lasers though. Invisible lasers are like defiling the holy laws of fun gameplay.
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I was actually thinking it might be fun to have an ICX system with invisible projectiles and lots of them. Of course, it would look pretty tacky on scanners now that I think of it.
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Aeonic wrote:I was actually thinking it might be fun to have an ICX system with invisible projectiles and lots of them. Of course, it would look pretty tacky on scanners now that I think of it.
Well, I'm not sure what that would do besides taking out projectiles really well...?
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Nothing except fit the object with a different theme.
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Aeonic wrote:Nothing except fit the object with a different theme.
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I'm not following...
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He doesn't like some of the weapons I made for the foomerians, but they need to be there for the missile defense to compensate for their blast and thermo vulnerable shields and armor.
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I'm pretty sure I'm still not following... DX

forget me, :P I think I'm too far removed to understand what's going on. XD
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My question has nothing to do with the Foomerian ships.
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