Ship Research - Weapons and their Engineering
02 Dec 2021Brainjax
- Mines are not proximity detonated. This was tested by dropping mines while in atmo onto another CMDR right underneath the drops. The mines would not detonate unless they made contact with the ship. This is unfortunate as the effectiveness of mines is pretty minimal thereby making them useless under most circumstances.
- Thermal vent reduces temperatures at greater rates the greater the heat generation rate of the laser. Long range produces the greatest heat so if firing with thermal vent and long range, the rate of cooling of the ship will be the highest possible. Followed by short range engineered lasers. The slowest is efficient lasers. This was tested by CMDR Exiguous in one of his youtube videos.
- Cytoscramblers have as much DPS (27.43) as a size 4 gimbaled burst laser (25.90). They have the opportunity to be as high as size 4 fixed beam (41.38) by using overcharged and inertial impact (69.94) although at this point the jitter would be so great, you'd be lucky to hit the broad side of a barn. More valuable would be overcharged and multi-servos (47.55) which is still greater than size 4 fixed beam.