[request]The bumblebee railgun
Posted: 17 May 2011, 20:07
The Bumble bee
Historical : The railgun project was about to close, everybody knew how promising was the technology, but everybody knew how much power that needed to be invested until it become usable. Commanders prefered to invest into cannon and missiles. But before the project was definitively down, researchers where ask to find a use for all that costy, light and resistant metal that was planned for the railgun coils. The alloy was already examined and discarded as an armor because it costed a bit too much. But it was never examined as a armor that can fire projectiles. The bumble bee was born and the whole railgun project was saved !
In game : I plan the bumble bee to replace entirely the needle gun. Instead of betting on the rail damage (which is too low at that point), this new weapon will rely massively on armor upgrades. That will gives players a change to jump in the rail gun branch without losing their research time entirely (having something useful on the battleground).
Request : I'd like to have a pie that depict the same coil then the other railgun, but that would look very huge like a shield.
I'll come with others idea like that in the next days, my goal is to fll holes in the game design and balance. I can't say if those request qill get into the main game, but i'm sure they will be used somewhere in a mod. I dont need right now a super high-poly model. Just something distinctive to make experiment will be enough.
Historical : The railgun project was about to close, everybody knew how promising was the technology, but everybody knew how much power that needed to be invested until it become usable. Commanders prefered to invest into cannon and missiles. But before the project was definitively down, researchers where ask to find a use for all that costy, light and resistant metal that was planned for the railgun coils. The alloy was already examined and discarded as an armor because it costed a bit too much. But it was never examined as a armor that can fire projectiles. The bumble bee was born and the whole railgun project was saved !
In game : I plan the bumble bee to replace entirely the needle gun. Instead of betting on the rail damage (which is too low at that point), this new weapon will rely massively on armor upgrades. That will gives players a change to jump in the rail gun branch without losing their research time entirely (having something useful on the battleground).
Request : I'd like to have a pie that depict the same coil then the other railgun, but that would look very huge like a shield.
I'll come with others idea like that in the next days, my goal is to fll holes in the game design and balance. I can't say if those request qill get into the main game, but i'm sure they will be used somewhere in a mod. I dont need right now a super high-poly model. Just something distinctive to make experiment will be enough.
For one, where are the 2 rails, each with its opposing magnetic field ? I'm guessing that they may have known the diff but saw the coil depiction as "cooler" looking ? Poetic licence in entertainments is pretty common but for those who favor Hard Sci Fi depictions such licence can be an irritant for a number of reasons.