There is need in new high velocity gun in game for larger ships.
It will be great to have next follower after the rail gun since it's only has limited class to 2.
But not to make rail gun useless weapon I propose the next statistics on it.
Coil gun.
.Available sizes: 2, 3, 4
.Muzzle velocity : similar to rail gun or faster ( acording to wiki atleast)
.Damage type : ONLY kinetic ( this to not make rails and plasma kanons redundant)
.Ammo storage : 65 ( sound fair to carry between rail gun en plasma accelerators )
.Shot delay : None ( it's work bit difrently then rail gun and has only kinetic damage in this case seems fair not have shot delay as it integrated in rail gun )
.Fitting requirements: somewere close to PA and Rail gun ( maeby bit lees since its kinetic only weapon)
.Heat generation: less then PA or rail gun since it has no friction but not too low as kanons because it's still use considerable amount of energy ( though for very very short amount of time )
.Targeting system: fixed/ gimbaled ( though gimbaled version not nessesery in my opinion , just added that one keeping in mind that those weapons will be used mostly on big sluggish ships )
If I did miss something feel free to add in comment below and I will merge here and support ofc if you like.
Though some will probably disagree with the idea so share you thoughts as well below with "why"
It will be great to have next follower after the rail gun since it's only has limited class to 2.
But not to make rail gun useless weapon I propose the next statistics on it.
Coil gun.
.Available sizes: 2, 3, 4
.Muzzle velocity : similar to rail gun or faster ( acording to wiki atleast)
.Damage type : ONLY kinetic ( this to not make rails and plasma kanons redundant)
.Ammo storage : 65 ( sound fair to carry between rail gun en plasma accelerators )
.Shot delay : None ( it's work bit difrently then rail gun and has only kinetic damage in this case seems fair not have shot delay as it integrated in rail gun )
.Fitting requirements: somewere close to PA and Rail gun ( maeby bit lees since its kinetic only weapon)
.Heat generation: less then PA or rail gun since it has no friction but not too low as kanons because it's still use considerable amount of energy ( though for very very short amount of time )
.Targeting system: fixed/ gimbaled ( though gimbaled version not nessesery in my opinion , just added that one keeping in mind that those weapons will be used mostly on big sluggish ships )
If I did miss something feel free to add in comment below and I will merge here and support ofc if you like.
Though some will probably disagree with the idea so share you thoughts as well below with "why"
