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Deep Space Rail Gun
Requirements: PvP Specialist I or 8/-/9/-/- (13/-/13/-/-?)
Damage: 3000
Velocity: 500m/s (480m/s?)
Energy: 150/blast
Delay: 2.0s
No auto-targeting
Ammo: 50mm Xithricite
Capacity: 10 rounds
Grid Usage: 8
Mass: 1750kg
Volume (as cargo): 2cu

Flight Duration: 10s (5km @ 500m/s & 4.8km @ 480m/s)
Port: Large
Price: 25,000c
Bolt Color: Bright Red
Sound: Twice as loud.

Sounds awesome. But, I'd decrease the grid a bit so that using it in a ragnarok more feasible. Although, getting a high-thrust centaur with 2 of these suckers would be nice.

Seems like it wouldn't be worth actually using at range on anything that isnt actually afk...

Although, if you gave it maybe half a positron's auto-aim it might be useful to prom users trying to gun down valks as they turbo away..

+1 to Op,

-1 to decreasing grid usage, 8 is fair enough.

Maybe make it heavier, because port is large.

Please let's not tie PvP gear to a grind.

Earn it, buy it, or craft it.

Achievement/levels: Earned

Inflated/Trade/Black Market Price: Bought

Combined Components: Crafted

EDIT: And I think all items should be available via all 3 methods.

Nice, +1.

That doesn't justify making any of the requirements unpleasantly arduous. We want this to game to be about player skill not grinding and levels.

What do you mean by "no-auto targeting"? Given the context it is ambiguous. The rest looks reasonable even if a bit conservative and a large port rail would be nice. Although, personally, I would rather it went only 480 m/s as then I wouldn't feel compelled to install the multiaim plugin for when I wanted to pair these with advanced rails. Bright red is ugly. :P

'Unpleasantly arduous' is subjective but I think I can understand your point of view in the terms you state. So, perhaps the requirements (if desired at all) could be 8/-/9/-/- .

'No-auto targeting' is actually a typo (my fault). It actually reads as 'no auto-targeting' on current Rail Gun variants and it means (from what I understand) that it does not auto-target like the Neutron Blaster Mk2 or similar energy blaster, instead it has a minuscule auto-target function or none at all.

"Bright red is ugly. :P", as you say. Again, it is subjective. ;P

" I think all items should be available via all 3 methods."
+1

8/-/9/-/- is better aligned with existing weapon requirements.

The targeting on existing rails is actually fairly significant. Their descriptions lies.