A plasma gun is probably a type of laser that uses superheated plasma instead of gases, this makes more sense than trying to "throw" plasma at things far away.

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Yay for physics!<br/>
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How exactly do "meson guns" work? Does it actually involve real live mesons, or are they just a sort of armor-penetrating round with a delayed blast fragmentation/corrosive charge?<br/>
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I assume the Tesla Bolt is probably an electron ...

<r> I have my own mods for these and a few others. <E>:)</E> I'd post my complete pile of designs here but some of them are still iffy as far as effectiveness (ie, the Tarantula, among several). I'd not been playing for a while and kinda forgot to fine-tune them. C'est la vie. I sent them to xdude ...

Since you've already paid for the game I can send you a copy if you want. I think that's kosher, correct me if I'm wrong.

Both xdude and I are sometimes available at irc.starlink.org #stars! - there used to be at least one other ToS player there too but I haven't seen him in ages.

Oh wow. Looking at this just now made my head hurt.

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Xdude is back from sandhell and says he'll be available to play as soon as he gets ToS onto his comp. We talk on IRC every so often.<br/>
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Also, to repost, for all the other people: To contact <I><s>[i]</s>me<e>[/i]</e></I> for a game, I'm at coyote27 at gmail dot com ...

Welcome into the fold.

Despite appearances on the forum, there's quite a few players around still. A lot of 'em are just dormant, but if you drop 'em a line they might take you on. I encourage you to do so.

<t> Wow, this forum really got quiet.<br/>
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If any of you all wanna play sometime soon, hit me up at coyote27 at gmail dot com or on yahoo instant messenger as coyote0027. I'm usually on in the evenings PST(gmt-8).<br/>
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Has anyone ...

I'm back too. Hi.

Remove one of the lasers - you can really only handle one of them in that design - and move to a l1 chassis.

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Firepower depends directly on heat radiation. Guns that you can't fire because of heat are just taking up valuable space. Most energy weapons (medium and bigger lasers) produce 2c/s heat, ac20+ac12+gauss about 1 and ac7+ac4+mesons about 2/3c. <br/>
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Ah, right, that was introduced in a patch...

You'd want the latest patch anyway so you can play aginst people. They're more fun.

You only need the CD to install. Before you load the game, pop in your favorite cd of robot-smashing music and have fun.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Thorgrim<br/>
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As for the Cougar, that kind of weaponry on a light will surely overheat it badly. Check out the Penetrator light design, which packs 2 LLs, and dissipates -3.45C/sec.
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Ha! My variation gets -4.37c/s! :p<br ...

<r> I kinda like it -- but you can trade a large laser for a SRM rack..<br/>
Heat will definitely be an issue, but putting millennia armor on the legs will improve it a lot. Also, Dullaroy is generally best for the head.<br/>
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Also, looks more efficient to put the missile racks in the arms ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: majama<br/>
Yeah, i think you should rebuild your close range assault, because now it is like sitting duck against long range medium titans, or they need escort in battle if encounter shielded and fast titans
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Well, see, that's what ...

I've got one a bit like that but with scan 6 - an improvement on the Sparrowhawk since it had 3 pl's and couldn't handle them.
Dual PL + called shots == nastyness.

I think my manager's business rating was about 65 or so. Comparable with weapons skills.
Mechanic's skill was 60, but he started with low Int.
At the end I was using a Witchlight, Starfire, Scourge, and Locust.

<t> Economics nearly always destroy my squads. They all seem to end up going bankrupt around the time the first jock hits Novice rank. Seems like anything bigger than a light titan just ends up being a bottomless pit to throw money into on repairs...<br/>
Also, running into a cc heavy all-recon ...