Ten-Sidhe
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.06.23 08:34:00 -
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real gyro jets had no warheads, at least not in the pistol and ar sizes.
They fired a small rocket propelled bullet, it did damage the same as a normally fired one, so no splash.
The biggest quirk of the gyrojet was the speed went up over time rather then down, so at close range the damage would be low and increase with range.
Spread was horrible, small imperfections in the motor made big variation on the impact point and the slow initial speed make it harder to spin stabilize. Gyrojets were fired from rifled barrels and had no fins, relying on spin for stability like a rifle bullet.
A gyro jet rifle would be nice for caldari, but rail rifle would be better ar for them. Gyrojet rifle vs rail rifle would be kind of like the laser rifle and scrambler for amarr. Gyrojet would be a quirky weapon with lots of flavor, but not a good general purpose rifle.
The flaylock is firing small rockets like the gyrojet, they just have explosives unlike most gyrojets.
A gyrojet inspired by real-life and caldrai preferences would be something like the following.
1)Mid-long range since damage increases with distance.
2) not easy to aim, bullet travel with increasing speed and a high spread would make it tricky to get hits at long range where it would do most of it's damage.
3)Low magazine size, gyrojet rounds are larger then a normal bullet and case.
4)Based on physics, it would do 4x the damage at max range it does at 1/2 range, energy=velocity^2*1/2mass. Average damage is 1/3 the max damage. So it would be a very range sensitive weapon. Explosive warhead version would have constant damage and splash, but that is more a minmatar type weapon. Caladri missile in eve do kinetic damage.
5)full-auto, burst, and semi-auto would all make sense for variants.
6)The minmatar smg has a caldari made variant, ishukone is caldari corp. A similar minmatar made assault gryojet rifle with spalsh would be a nice tie in to the flaylock. Caldari made breach, and tac would have no splash, minmatar assault version would have greatly reduced direct damage and splash damage. Standard and burst could go either way, burst fire rosket with splash would be interesting but would need very low damage for balance.
If the standard gyrojet rifle had splash, it could fill roll of the caldari grenade launcher.
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