[member="William Kerkov"]
William Kerkov said:
Classification: SuperLaser
Size: Ship-Mounted
Length: 320 Meter
Weight: 69,000 Tonnes
Ammunition Type: Hypermatter Core
Ammunition Capacity: 1 Shot
Effective Range: Equivalent to a turbolaser’s range x1.5
Rate of Fire: Single Action
Special Features: Can do Critical Hull Damage to Capital Ships.
A- You cannot make a super-weapon.
B- Ammunition Capacity needs to be in terms of "naval engagements", which means "how many shots can you reasonably expect to fire in a naval combat thread?"
C- Rate of Fire needs to be in comparison to the RoF of a standard Turbolaser.
D- The special features needs to be edited. Any capital ship weapon can cause critical hull damage to other capital ships, so long as the defending writer permits it. If you were somehow implying that this weapon "always" does critical hull damage, then I'd also have to request that this special feature be edited out.
William Kerkov said:
Description: The Taurus Laser Canon is a 320 meter long Canon Built especially for the soon to come Taurus Class Artillery Frigate. Built in the large shipyards of the OCA Terminus Shipyards, it was specially designed by Terminisian crafters. It can be retrofitted to any 400 meter + military ship. Preferably for Artillery Frigates built around this Canon, it is considerably hard to construct on other ship classes.
The canon is substantially expensive to create and build so thusly, it is quite expensive to purchase. And to be transported further than any planetary location, it would require dozens of Cargo freighters to transport, making the laser canon a very painful item to transport.
Now the Taurus Laser is no turbo laser. This weapon is designed to do extensive hull damage to any ship between the credentials of 2,000-1,000 meters, at 1,000-400 meters it can do critical hull damage. At 400-200, it can disable the ship completely, and at 200- meters it will destroy it entirely. As it is explained, the Taurus laser is very deadly. Although one shot is deadly, in a short battle it is most likely the only shot from the canon. It’s reloading time is over an hour, making it an essential to hit your target. In a range of Capital ship weapons, it is valued at 7.
Primary Source:
First and foremost, you cannot have a super weapon. A 320 meter long laser weapon is insane. And no matter how big the weapon is or how many points it is worth, you cannot go around instant-killing the ships of other writers. The impression given from the description is that this weapon is somehow capable of causing substantial structural damage to a ship of any size (including outright killing frigates and corvettes) should it strike them, even if they are undamaged and have full shields.
That needs to be changed.
Currently, assuming we somehow balance out this 320 meter long monster, the weapon would need to be valued at at least 100 Capital Ship Weapons, which would make it far too large to be placed on a frigate.
In order for this weapon to be approved for use on a frigate, the weapon itself needs to be balanced out so that the optimal range, rate of fire, and damage output of the weapon is comparable in value to 45 Turbolasers.
William Kerkov said:
In a range of Capital ship weapons, it is valued at 7.
A weapon that is only worth 7 Turbolasers on SW Chaos's "Capital Ship Weapon" scale would not be one-shotting other frigates and corvettes.
For a point of reference, here are a number Capital Ship Weapons that are valued based on how they compare to a Turbolaser.
Rhondomyniad Mass Driver Cannon: 1x Turbolaser
Triumph-class Quad Turbolaser: 1x Turbolaser (quad mount)
Yaret-Gavvuk: 2x Turbolaser
Imperator Turbolaser: 8x Turbolaser
Super-Heavy Turbolaser: 8x Turbolaser
Quick Recharge Long Range Turbolaser: 10x Turbolaser
Arbalest-class Mass Driver: 10x Turbolaser
Mini-Javelin Hypervelocity Cannon: 10x and 20x Turbolaser
Tyrvald-class Pulse Turbolaser: 40x Turbolaser
Vortex Macro Cannon: 100x Turbolaser
Now, this is an old guide and is no longer enforced, but the current rules for creating a ship on SW Chaos assumes that the submitting writer is familiar with the basics of the old guide.
So I want you to
go to this hyperlink and read up on Starship Armaments, specifically the Weapons and Modifiers section.
