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| + | Most players will want to equip themselves with a beam laser. They do plenty of damage to large ships while making it easier to hit small fighters. |
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| + | More powerful lasers overheat quickly. The 1MW beam laser does not overheat easily. The 4MW, 20MW and 100MW versions should be used with a laser cooling booster. The 100MW version overheats a little too quickly and is not recommmended, since the 20MW version is deadly enough and overheats less. |
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| − | Most players will want to equip themselves with a beam laser. They do plenty of damage to large ships while making it easier to hit small fighters. |
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| − | More powerful lasers overheat quickly. The 1MW beam laser does not overheat easily. The 4MW, 20MW and 100MW versions should be used with a laser cooling booster. The 100MW version overheats a little too quickly and is not recommmended, since the 20MW version is deadly enough and overheats less. |
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| + | == Plasma Accelerators == |
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| + | Effectively just more powerful beam lasers but with one key difference - they take a long time to overheat and for practical purposes they don't. The question is whether you want to sacrifice 500 tonnes for a small plasma accelerator when a 20MW beam laser can kill any normal target very quickly with just 75 tonnes. |
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| − | Effectively just more powerful beam lasers but with one key difference - they take a long time to overheat and for practical purposes they don't. The question is whether you want to sacrifice 500 tonnes for a small plasma accelerator when a 20MW beam laser can kill any normal target very quickly with just 75 tonnes. |
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| − | + | The large plasma accelerator is the ultimate weapon that pilots aspire to owning. That is, until they get one and realize that the small plasma accelerator is just as effective and leaves 400 tonnes of space free for shields etc. There isn't really any room for improvement over the small plasma accelerator. |
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Revision as of 23:38, 13 April 2007
Weapons
Pulse Lasers
The most basic weapon type is the pulse laser, which shoots for short intervals. The 1MW version is very weak but the 5MW is useable. The 30MW mining laser is quite powerful, but has rather a long cool down. This makes it hard to hit small fast moving ships.
Beam Lasers
Most players will want to equip themselves with a beam laser. They do plenty of damage to large ships while making it easier to hit small fighters.
More powerful lasers overheat quickly. The 1MW beam laser does not overheat easily. The 4MW, 20MW and 100MW versions should be used with a laser cooling booster. The 100MW version overheats a little too quickly and is not recommmended, since the 20MW version is deadly enough and overheats less.
Plasma Accelerators
Effectively just more powerful beam lasers but with one key difference - they take a long time to overheat and for practical purposes they don't. The question is whether you want to sacrifice 500 tonnes for a small plasma accelerator when a 20MW beam laser can kill any normal target very quickly with just 75 tonnes.
The large plasma accelerator is the ultimate weapon that pilots aspire to owning. That is, until they get one and realize that the small plasma accelerator is just as effective and leaves 400 tonnes of space free for shields etc. There isn't really any room for improvement over the small plasma accelerator.
