Natch's custom weapon request/help topic!

[Natch]

Pretty simple. You either ask me to make you a custom weapon, or ask me to help you with an existing one.

If you ask me to make you one, tell me the details of what you're going for, and I'll see if I can pull it off.

If you want some help on it, just tell me what part is boggling your mind. I'll help find a way to deal with it.

[Anarki]

Make me a plasma charge which blows up the world. >.>

And has small range.

[Natch]

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You mean makes a huge explosion? I'll see what I can do.

[TormakSaber]

Plasmas, the only way to make the AoE bigger is to let the charge travel further. Simply upping damage will only... up the damage.

[Natch]

He's the customer. I am going to try and make a weapon to his specifications.

[Natch]

Okay, I made your weapon Anarki!

I put it on a special test hull. Please note the secret to the weapon is to clone it many times on top of each other. However, it can still work(to an extent) with just one of it.

http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... _World.sb2

[Anarki]

Lol, you actually created it. Now to put it on my bomb ship...

But that weapon was more of a joke. Here is a serious problem that I have.

I want to make a railgun with no penetration, but deals at least 8-15 damage to the first section. I guess if that no penetration is impossible, I could settle for very minimal damage to other sections, but does anyone know how to do this?

[TormakSaber]

Easy. Railguns pentrate one section per 15 damage they do. Just give the weapon 15 damage. Sometimes it will bleed through, it's the nature of the weapon, but it will be minimal amounts.

[Da_Higg]

Its 15 on the first section, and 10 on subsequent sections

[Arcalane]

Its 15 on the first section, and 10 on subsequent sections

Actually, 15 per section until the last (where it'll do 10, because it passes two, hitting them both for 15, and then the last 10 are spent on the 3rd) Your math would have the default railgun skip three (rather than two) sections for 15, 10, 10 and deal all of 5 damage to the fourth section.

As per;

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Note: Pierces 3 objects. Does 15 damage to the first two and 10 to the last. Damages ship core for 100% damage if possible.

Modding Note: Increasing damage increases penetration. Example; 100-damage railgun penetrates 6 segments for 15 damage each and deals 10 to the last. (TormakSaber)

Modding Note: Reducing the damage to 15 or below does not entirely remove penetration, but very little damage will be dealt to the next section. On the other hand the maximum damage dealt to any section is 15 - any extra will pierce to the next section. (Wind Tempest)

The weapons and modules guide is filled with modding notes on purpose!

[Anarki]

Ahh, so a 15 damage railgun will only penetrate a single section, and have no spill? Same with anything below 15?

[Arcalane]

Ahh, so a 15 damage railgun will only penetrate a single section, and have no spill? Same with anything below 15?

...did you even read that?

Modding Note: Reducing the damage to 15 or below does not entirely remove penetration, but very little damage will be dealt to the next section. On the other hand the maximum damage dealt to any section is 15 - any extra will pierce to the next section. (Wind Tempest)

[th15]

That description is outdated. It does 15 (or whatever damage is left) damage to each component it hits (regardless of type) until it runs out of damage. It no longer has any special effect on cores or turrets.

The damage of 40 means that the rail gun does 15-15-10. The bolt is supposed to stop when it encounters a deflected section but the checking for that isn't perfect right now.

[Anarki]

But wouldn't it deal 15, 0, 0? Or would it be 13, 1, 1?

[th15]

What? No there's no count for how many components it has hit. A railgun with 15 damage or less will only hit one component, no more.

You might think otherwise because you'll probably still see two hit effects, but that's just because the code for it is none too great at the moment.