eet, What happens on IRC stays on IRC!

lordkosc... do you work for stardock or ironclad? just wonderin because your comments seem very knowlegable but no SD or IC simbols appear by your name.... jw

kosc works for the ruler of all evil, Microsoft.

jk, but no, he doesnt work for either of em, he just has no life.

jk again, but the not working for either part was true.

Thanks for the praise, nope I work for a boring medical company, but I feel Sins is an amazing game, and I've invested a lot of time into learning about it ( from the forums and IRC) and talking about it to whomever will listen!

Quality products need as many promoters as possible!

What!?! I dont want to launched from a cannon!!

dont worry emp, we wouldnt do that to you, we would stuff you in a vase full of tulips and then make you live on Simon(yes, the one from american idol)'s living room table until he dies.

he's just 1 of the people that obcess about every part of a game he likes.
granted, this is a glorious game, that sparks great potential.
but he must know everything. Every direction, angle and ...er....[something]
so eventually every one begins to resent and hate him and thus anti-Kosc is formed
(run by multianna & co.).......
but hey, hes a funny guy so it's all in the name of good (but cruel) fun!

anyone want a pamphlet?

The enemy amasses followers, none the less, I shall not be defeated... I've seen Multianna play

I actually thought about Homeworld when that was mentioned and the ion cannon there did everything expect disabling a ship

the ion cannon could just be strong vs shields and weak vs hull.
so that unlike the homeworld one you dont get one weapon owning everyone.
you would have to use combinations or just one big fleet!

Ion canon . . . Depending on how you define it . . a ion gun is a particle gun that happens to fire a charged beam . . Unfortunately such a “beam” would be EASALLY defended ageist and quite hard to aim because of its charge. (well aiming would be very easy, not having it bend all over, disperse and sill hit what you are aiming at . . . )
Any magnetic field would bend it regardless of strength of the beam. The larger the number of fields and there gradients would disperse it at a greater rate. So it would be also useless near any natural magnetic fields.
An alternate form would be a plasma weapon . . This too has it’s problems since it too would not move in a strait line. . Would cool fast and disperse.
Though hit any hull with energetic matter and . . . it will not be the same

I have made personally a Ion “beam” (think more jet then beam) what was powerful enough to hold a large Styrofoam ball in the air. This could also be used as an Ion motor for a dinky spacecraft. Even scaled up Not very useful as a weapon because of its very short range lack of “hitting” power and would not “disable” anything if any though at all was used in the targets construction.

Also EMP looses its bang for the buck VERY quickly as soon as you remove wires from the equation . . the use of Fiber optics and faraday cages around sensitive (still vulnerable parts) effectively harden any target to the point of making EMPs so ineffective to be almost useless.

8Mikey8 had a better idea . . if you have to have it just make it effective on shields or something. but just please do not folow the crowd . .