On 2002-11-30 21:56, Stinger wrote:
I really like the rules. I have often thought that the PL's were a little silly as they stood now and I prefer the regular lasers to them. Your rules as you have them written make them realistic and useful as city fighting weapons.

I think I would like to see the ranges pushed outa little bit more, to mabey 4-short 8-med 12-long for the large pulse laser, and 3-short 6-med 9 long (if I misread them and that is what they are at sorry ) But over all very well thought out.

I was working on new rule's for lasers a while ago that looked like:

Weapon Heat E-Dam I-Dam
L-laser 12 8 3
M-laser 5 4 2
S-laser 2 3 -

The main difference was E-damage was External Damage and I-damage was Internal damage with a chance to roll on the crit table. (I partially designed this to allow for faster games, I havent play tested it thought). Ill have to finish working on them and post them eventually.

Stinger

On 2002-12-02 08:03, Shadowking wrote:
The idea of pulses is more like standard AC's than LBX's. They aren't firing with a shotgun effect. It's more of a one shot after another, ie pulses. As how the fluff states, standard AC's do like a 'walking fire' sorta effect. Because of the consistant fire, the pilot can more easily 'walk' the pulses over to the target in order to hit unlike a standard solid beam laser. Which of course would cause reason to think, why don't standard AC's have a negative to hit as well?

As for changing the weapons to more balance them, I would have to think maybe downing the range of the Clan's is better, maybe to match the IS standard lasers. IE, LPL goes 15, MPL = 9, though maybe give SPL 4-5 rather than 3 .

And as you've already stated before, IS pulses are already pretty crappy so to speak, so I can't really see any reason to have them changed.

I could also see pulses as maybe rolling on a 2 or 3 table to see how many shots hit. Obviously with a damage decrease though. Anymore than 2-3 shots is too many though.

On 2002-11-30 18:00, AlexxKnight wrote:
I think that they sound reasonable and well thought out. I myself would like to see these rules in action first, but I think that based on your statements up front that these rules balance out the problems associated with Pulse Lasers. I myslef always thought of a Pulse laser as the Machine Gun of Lasers so to speak. Overall well thought out and balanced. I can't think of any reason rihgt now as to why they would unbalance the game.

On 2002-12-02 13:14, Stinger wrote:
Yeah I was playing with the laser rules out of boredom oneday, and I was never really happy with them. But they have been shelved for a loooooonng time and dont see them getting reworked at all.

I like what youve done. I may have to give them a test here soon to see how they work.

Stinger