The epitome of Caldari warfare philosophy of efficiency and range, the weapon is renowned for never missing a shot. Utilizing the best microscale rail enables a shot putting an inert round downrange in excess of 2500m/s. Further more the Magnet Rifles legendary accuracy is achieved by the P.T.L. (Prefire Target Lock) targeting system that is built into each unit to guarantee each shot finds a home.

3) Pre Fire Lock On Time

The weapon has a .75 Spool up time (can be increased to 1.25 if needed), the spool up doesn't start unless it had a target its its cross hair and only fires the shot if the target has remained in the cross hairs for the duration of the entire spool up (.75 seconds?). This means that if a moving target continuously weaves in and out of the cross hairs before the spool up finishes the weapon will never fire, it also gives it a much different function from another racial long range weapon.


Any thoughts? Critiques?

And thank you for your time.

That is a stupid idea. Either a) auto-aim will lock on to every target making snipers the FOTM and causing all of us to have a lot less fun or b)the sniper rifle will become even more useless since we will all be bobing and moving erratically 100% of the time causing no sniper to be able to hit anyone since their weapons will never fire. I am in no way intending to insult you but this idea is just plain bad and someone needed to point it out.

sorry bad idea, snipers are supposed to be long range.
1 your taking away all of the squad related help a sniper can provide i.e a good vantage of the battle thus providing intel etc.
2 a close range sniper is basically a marksman and would become just another assault role.
3 you remove the skill of sniping completely by having full auto aim
4 if every time someone moves they can't be hit, what happens when more than one enemy is in sight?
5 if your idea worked and we had a ohk weapon that was even a little bit longer ranged than a ar/cr/rr it would be instantly overused and become another link to the nerf/buff cycle.

that said the idea of a infantry lock on would be valid for the plasma cannon and could take place as it charges which would make it a viable weapon at the moment charging, firing, missing and not getting much splash damage then reload after each shot just doesn't work, also I think it would be similar to your idea here, the fact you have to reload after each shot would give the weapon balance.

sorry bad idea, snipers are supposed to be long range.
1 your taking away all of the squad related help a sniper can provide i.e a good vantage of the battle thus providing intel etc.
2 a close range sniper is basically a marksman and would become just another assault role.
3 you remove the skill of sniping completely by having full auto aim
4 if every time someone moves they can't be hit, what happens when more than one enemy is in sight?
5 if your idea worked and we had a ohk weapon that was even a little bit longer ranged than a ar/cr/rr it would be instantly overused and become another link to the nerf/buff cycle.

that said the idea of a infantry lock on would be valid for the plasma cannon and could take place as it charges which would make it a viable weapon at the moment charging, firing, missing and not getting much splash damage then reload after each shot just doesn't work, also I think it would be similar to your idea here, the fact you have to reload after each shot would give the weapon balance.