Waspentalive's Trek

[waspentalive]

Good news people! - When you charge your phasors above 85% you run the risk of damaging them.

Why bother measuring them to 100% then? Maybe the threshold should be 95% for the first shot, and it should get lower "astronomically in reverse", such as 85%, 82%, 80% ... ah well I only peeked the source code for this game that I found somewhere in the Python-ized PC-BASIC, better for the "PRINT" statements... LOL couldn't make up its mind what to call Mr. Spock, sometimes used his rank.

Sorry Star Trek interested me somewhat but not a great fan and know next to nothing except a bunch of people online that admire that guy. "Pure energy!" That was actually a voice clip of his in a song by Information Society in the late 1980's.

One would charge phasors to 100% if one needed a sure kill of all enemy combatants in the sector. This is sort of like the "death blossom" of Last Starfighter. It uses a lot of energy (or it probably will when I adjust it more).

So are you proposing a sort of cool-down period where If you use more than a certain amount of firepower in a time period you definitely damage your phasors, but if you wait between shots you can use more fully charged shots?

I will have to think on this a bit as the game is not real-time, more turn-based.