Particle accelerator gun (or coilgun)

[meager drift]

An alternate way of using railgun parts :

Place them in a shape like in the picture with the coilgun option and tada, you have a coilgun

The difference between a coilgun and a railgun is that in the coilgun, the power is made by making the bullet accelerating inside the circle, so the longer it spin, the more powerfull it become

And the lenght of the coilgun with define the max power it can reach

To make one you just have to place a loader, four accelerator to set the circle, and one exit

The rest (the railgun-looking circle) is just aesthetic and go on top of the ship, so you can place things Under it, but still explode like a normal railgun if one of the main part is destroyed

I think that will meet the exigence of people wanting more way of using the railgun

[blissful sphinx]

This is a very popular suggestion

please check if it was already suggested

[meager drift]

My internet connexion just messed up I'm sorry..

[blissful sphinx]

ah

[maiden sparrow]

Ok so there are no other versions

Goodl

Let me just retype my thoughts.

So multiple loaders and Exits

And ships have to be shaped like donuts

I see no downsides

[meager drift]

No multiple loader/exit, too strong and maybe too hard to add in the game too

[meager drift]

Time between shot if you want to make 100% charged shot, and the size it take to have a reasonable damage dealing

[spiral vortex]

Roof turret railgun

https://tenor.com/view/agony-gif-23084585

[maiden sparrow]

Nah just have it be normal components

And it has to be in a square of some sort

Artificial rail fan lol

Sure you're segregating a big part of your ship to use it. But god damn its op

I imagine the loaders would be inside

[meager drift]

Loader and exit have to be alligned to the tube obviously

So outside

[maiden sparrow]

No I mean

[spiral vortex]

Fuck it, roof turret launcher, but make it combine up to 8 railguns by connecting them with accelerators

The more damage, the slower and bigger the projectile ends up being

[meager drift]

Nono no roof, the only "roof" thing is just the fact that you can't do round part in the ship so you just make it an aesthetic thing

[spiral vortex]

But then how do you tell the particle to-

[meager drift]

The game know, and you have still some part in, the loader accelerator and exit, inside the ship, to tell him how to actually be shaped

[meager drift]

It's not in line with the gun : it have to be outside to be lined up with the gun

[maiden sparrow]

Y

Its feeding into the coil smh

[spiral vortex]

Segment the loader to also be the launcher, but it does have to be roof turret, except its fixed, have multiple shots be able to be fired in the loop to allow for burst, and all the segments of the coil-loop drain energy from uh 2 blocks nearby?

[maiden sparrow]

It takes up so much space already lol

[meager drift]

You can't have the loader to be the exit, due to the fact that it spin in a certain way, plus it would have shot into the ship itself anyway

[spiral vortex]

That's the thing I'm about to mention

That is why the roof turret part has to be a thing

One sec I'll graph it

Loader/launcher segment has a toggle: Loop ► Launch.
While on [Loop] mode, the loader can fire several rounds, making the rounds loop and gain power and damage, storing them indefinitely until loader goes into [Launch] toggle, at which loader segment lifts itself to allow rounds to exit the loop.

It definetly fucks with the 3d perception part of the game, for sure, because it wouldn't normally work as shots are fired at an angle instead of perfectly straight at the target, but that can be dismissed with balacing stats such as range