Mini-Mod: Gatling Point-Defence Weapons

I like the sound (and look) of this, but I'm a bit worried how it will affect turn processing times with lots of big battles.

Have you tested it in terms of time used on large scale?

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have you modified the accuracy of the weapons to reflect your changes, or atleast the cost? having many more shots at the same accuracy makes them a lot more effective against missiles and smaller fighters.
just my 2 cents
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It may also spread the damgage out better, allowing you to get that next shot off quicker when swarmed with fighters.

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I like it, tends to take some edge off fighters. Is the formula for the PD Blasters correct? In my testing, the other two had small damage v. the Blasters which was like 120 or something. Is that what you intended?

Hi, Is this good for the current Balance Mod. And if not what changes are needed. Thanks

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One item to consider if you are reducing the damage of point defense weapons in proportion to a firing rate change is that it can increase the number of hits that it takes to destroy a seeker, which can lead to a disproportionate decrease in effectiveness...

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Doing some math, there's no way you can increase the accuracy and have the same kind of probability of killing a target in the same time period. A 1 second fire (1 hit to kill) at 90% success reaches "statisticaly dead" at 4 seconds (99.99% chance). Halving the damage and doubling the fire rate and pushing the accuracy to a whopping 98% the object after 4 seconds only has a 98% chance of having killed the target. The probability doesn't increase any farther as the probability that it took that many shots is ever-decreasing.

Unless my math is wrong, but I can't seem to find an error.

Increasing the rate of fire also has the benefit of allowing you to engage more targets since the first one will die faster. Perhaps we could just create a new weapon trading size for ROF. After all, a real gatling field gun is about the size of a cannon.

...because a gatling gun is not a faster gun, but "lets tie six of them together! When one is firing, the rest are cooling off and reloading!"

I'd be willing to put forth the idea that the first gatling gun was designed by de Vinci when he strung 10 guns in a row next to each other on one side of a large triangle (with 10 more on each of the other two sides) and put wheels on. The first 10 would fire while the second 10 get loaded (by, like 3 people) then the entire contraption would rotate and repeat.
Google is teh suck. Best image I could find:
http://www.stupidbeaver.com/wp-content/images/davinci/da_vinci2.jpg

Too unwieldy but like many other things he had the right idea.