 March 23, 2008 - 10:30am | I thought Zeram made some good observations concerning the sniper rifles in Star Frontiersman #8. He said: March 23rd, 2008 - 11:43am I had a big problem with the sniper rifles (laser and gauss). Both of these are just long-range, low rate of fire versions of their regular cousins (except the gauss sniper rifle somehow gets an extra 1d10 to damage). Neither of these rifles would be suitable for a character trying to be a sniper. Both give tell-tale signs of where the shots originate and thereby making it suicidal for the would-be sniper. Once you fire they know where you are since the laser is either a beam or a pulse of light easily seen and the gauss rifle's projectile "leaves a short red or blue streak trailing the projectile". Continuing with the sniper rifles, the note about allowing a sniper to multiply the damage by their weapon skill level is way too far out there in balance IMO. At least with the sniper rifle in Issue 4 you were looking at a maximum of 60 points of damage. The damage output of the rifles in Issue 8 just made this a real problem to look at. Maybe lessen the bonus to adding an extra 1d5 or 1d10 per level of the sniper's weapon skill instead? Just to touch back on the regular gauss rifle a moment, I would probably back off on it being able to fire a burst. But that's just me personally. So I see the following points: 1. The shot path should not be traceable 2. Single shots will be more important (goes back to traceable). 3. Damage management. (One shot, one kill should be able to be upheld.) 4. weapons skill. (Should there be a Sniper Rifle weapons skill?) |
March 29, 2008 - 12:27am | I don't care where the server is. It could be in the House of the Rising Sun for all I care. What I want to know is if the company performs regular backups and server maintenance. |
 March 29, 2008 - 9:00am | I don't care where the server is. It could be in the House of the Rising Sun for all I care. What I want to know is if the company performs regular backups and server maintenance. I just re-read my account details, and yes it's backed up daily. It's also stored on two redundant servers so when one goes down for maintenance the other is able to keep running. It's quite a good linux-based web hosting solution, and it's relatively inexpensive. I pay $69 per year. I am hosting several sites on this server, and this is my only cost. I was paying half that, but bandwidth and traffic on this site necessitated me double the price for added features. Anyone want to foot the bill? It's due next month haha...3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our
vision, but when you're cool like us the sun shines all the time. |
March 29, 2008 - 11:31am | Good news. Okay, back to the regularly scheduled topic. Wait, we were already off topic. Can we start another thread for the skills discussion? This thread is about Sniper Rifles and, by extention, Snipers. |
