My take is mobile dominated the convo.....I read more of what he wanted than what the devs plan to do

Hit scan is fine, I have no problem with it at all. Something like a railgun for example, do you know how fast they're supposed to travel? Regular projectiles are so fast that they can kill you before you even hear the sound of the shot firing, one would think that would only improve in the future.
Evading another player's aim on you is fine, but dodging bullets should not be possible.

Agreed, but no matter what speed the projectile flies at, you still have to lead a sufficiently distant target.

If "mobile" is me, then I was trying to keep up with a very busy chat, and thus made quite a few small posts instead of fewer, larger ones. I got in via MPT back in Replication. I bought a Merc Pack later to give the code to my friend.

The way I see it, projectile speed better emphasizes player skill, and allows for more variation between weapon types. For example:

Plasma < Bullet < Slug(Gauss) < Laser as far as speed is concerned.

I say that Plasma would be slowest because rather than accelerating a solid projectile that mostly keeps it's inertia over range, a Plasma weapon fires a ball of gas that has to travel through atmosphere of a similar mass, thus allowing it to be slowed far more easily over range. On the opposite end, you have a Laser weapon, which requires no target leading regardless of range, but only does it's full damage within a limited range, and only does that damage based on the time the beam is held on the target.

With those as either end of the spectrum, you can array the other weapons accordingly and make each one more unique and demanding of a particular skillset. If you wanted to get really crazy, when you have other planets introduced, you could take gravity into account with projectile weapons so that fighting on a smaller planet would allow you to have to compensate less for ballistic falloff. A railgun does indeed fire fast, but you're not going to beat gravity with a horizontal shot, and the projectile is still slower than the speed of light.

It's not just leading your targets though. It's "Gun A will do this, but not that, even though it's similar to Gun B that does both this AND that. Gun C on the other hand is completely different, even though it's an Assault Rifle like both Gun A and Gun B." I dunno, maybe I'm over thinking it?

Seriously, was the "wow" good or bad?

Oh no, that wasn't what I was saying. I was saying that each weapon would have projectile behavior as a base, static characteristic. I wasn't trying to suggest that it should be variable based on skill training or anything else, not even weapon modifications.

Ah, gotcha.

Its always the Americans.

I'm looking for another job at the moment, but no, I've never done QA.

I'd prefer CCP if I could swing it.

I really can't wait till we start to see other race's weapons being integrated. I know I'm already going to be speccing into Scrambler Rifles as soon as those go in. I love testing new weapons.

See, that's why I was surprised when he said that having to lead targets would cause confusion for players, when I keep running into people who are leading their targets and are confused as to why they aren't getting any hits.

these assholes that think they can make games havent done it yet. and when i play witht he controller and shudder at what they spent on that,

all i cant think is yes men. why the **** didnt someone stop them and say hey loook assholes your doing it wrong:P

I'd prefer that all of them get projectile attributes, or none of them