Weapons

[Dragar]

I'm looking at the `WEAPONS.lua` in an attempt to understand more about how to mod the game. I'm a bit puzzled by the following:

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  setmetatable(t.heavy, {
    __tostring=function() return string.format("%d-%d",floor(1.5*low),ceil(1.5*high)) end,
    __call=function() return random_int(floor(1.5*low),ceil(1.5*high)) end,
  })

Is this code used? It seems to imply heavy weapons have a 1.5 multiplier to damage, but this doesn't seem to be represented in the tech descriptions (e.g. on the tech tree or the ship builder, the standard weapon ranges are used).

[Dragar]

I never figured this out.

I thought I'd poke around at modifying the power cost of turbolasers, as an interesting tweak. Unfortunately, modifying the `power_mult` variable in the turbolaser entry just seemed to affect the descriptions - when actually applying the weapon to the hardpoint, the ship designer suggests the old power usage is used.

Where is the correct place to modify power usage of weapons?

[gaerzi]

Is this code used? It seems to imply heavy weapons have a 1.5 multiplier to damage, but this doesn't seem to be represented in the tech descriptions (e.g. on the tech tree or the ship builder, the standard weapon ranges are used).

The way I'd try to test if it's used would be to change the multiplier to something absurd, such as 1500 instead of 1.5, and then check in game. Make the change blatant enough to be noticeable without ambiguity!