Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Currently, when an egun/lasergun is depleted, the gun is completely useless until recharged. But what if instead of having to recharge the gun, you can simply eject the current mag and pop in a new one, having to simply recharge the magazine instead of the gun itself. The biggest gameplay change this would illicit is instead of having people hoard laser/eguns so they don't have to recharge as often, they can simply carry one gun, and multiple magazines. The magazines would be classified as a small/tiny item so that it could fit in pockets, exo-suit storage slots, and security belts. This would require some edits to at least laser/eguns so that they have a magazine function. Not sure if magazines would apply to ion guns, laser cannons, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johannhawk Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 we used to just simply just have swapping batteries and that happened to be a issue and it was removed. having magazines instead could make things better but thats unlikely unless we do something right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox McCloud Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 and have people carry a hundred lasermags on them? No thanks. We had this, that's exactly what happened--a player would carry a screwdriver, their standard lasergun, and a bunch of superior capacity cells. This is the one defining thing between laser guns and projectiles. Laserguns can be recharged, unlimited amount of times, but it requires time and an inconvenience to do so. Projectiles have limited ammo, but it's easy to carry a lot of that ammo on you. The latter is far more favorable in a combat scenario, since you can fire with impunity, in most situations, since ammo is small and you can just jam another clip in as soon as the first one depletes. Also, our energy weapons don't even remotely support handling of magazines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdtwbaj Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Smh fam. Give the hos and warden portable charger backpacks to carry around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws Posted February 22, 2016 Author Share Posted February 22, 2016 What about simply increasing the shots each gun can do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldflame Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I'd support a way to up the capacity of gear aside from the baton, but as was previously stated field reloads for energy weapons are a bad idea. A non-portable method of cell upgrading wouldn't really fit any current equipment, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HereticChurch Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 TG actually has this in their code, I think. It's neat, but yeah, we can't even think about having this without an overhaul to our guncode. If we did get this, I think it'd be something cool to give to the ERT, to limit the number of laser cartridges available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadeykins Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 The issue with laser weaponry isn't typically depletion of their energy reserves but the massive amount of heat they produce. This is actually the fundamental flaw with trying to design laser weaponry today, much of it explodes/melts/is damaged after activation due to heat. Maybe RnD could produce an attachable heatsink to laser weaponry, that gives them a few extra shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdtwbaj Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 New toy for RnD: Laser heat sink, gives more shots. New toy for HoS/Warden: Backpck recharger, replaces backpack slot with a big machine that can charge shit. Takes a full 60 seconds to charge from empty in a recharger, and can fully charge up to 4 eguns, and upgraded power cells add more, with more charge time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinarzad Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Some Mass Effect-esque Thermal Clips for laser guns might be neat. If the problem is that people just stock up on a billion clips, why not increase the size of the thermal magazines, so they can't fit in a backpack, but instead have to be put in a suit storage slot? Because then it's a choice of what to dump into that slot, an instant reload or something with more utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GelatinousGlob Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I could see balancing this with having your gun heat up and do small burn damage and eventually explode in your hands if you let it get too hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saywat_the_15th Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Sounds nice. If implemented make it so that the magasines fit in sec belt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidchan Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 -1 to magazines, given that we've done it before and it failed. The increased capacity sounds okay. Id personally just use capacitors but if someone wanted to make heat sinks sprites I guess it'd be fine, though what would we do with AEGs and other self chargers? If we do go the capacitor route, make sure that a new capacitor drains the weapon so it can't be ezploited by swapping capacitors out. Making security have one more reason to play nice with science rather than try to shut them down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumiluntti Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Never again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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