A Shrink Ray Weapon
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I came here to laugh at you Join Date: 2015-08-01 Member: 206618Members
I came here to laugh at you Join Date: 2015-08-01 Member: 206618Members
Its brilliant.
An idea conceived by the marvellous @jjust19
A shrink ray type weapon to make any creature virtually harmless.
Take a Reaper Leviathan from [Jaws Theme intensifies], down to
Who's the apex predator now, ya shrimp!
Now, how to balance a weapon this powerful
Option A - Require it to be mounted to the Seamoth or Exosuit
A vehicle mounted shrink ray would make it almost exclusively for Reaper Leviathans, though would still be effective versus other creatures.
Option B - A handheld device that uses most of its power per shrink
Option C - Shrinky Dink effect is only temporary, Fantastic Voyage style. Don't want that little babby reaper in your fish tank when it wears off, yeah?
Option D - You have to keep the shrink ray trained on the creature as you shrink it, which would take time. Zapping a creature with the shrink ray would alert it to your presence, and cause it to either flee or attack you. So if you want a pocket reaper, you'd better learn to dodge while you shrink it down to harmless puppy size.
An idea conceived by the marvellous @jjust19
A shrink ray type weapon to make any creature virtually harmless.
Take a Reaper Leviathan from [Jaws Theme intensifies], down to
Who's the apex predator now, ya shrimp!
Now, how to balance a weapon this powerful
Option A - Require it to be mounted to the Seamoth or Exosuit
A vehicle mounted shrink ray would make it almost exclusively for Reaper Leviathans, though would still be effective versus other creatures.
Option B - A handheld device that uses most of its power per shrink
Option C - Shrinky Dink effect is only temporary, Fantastic Voyage style. Don't want that little babby reaper in your fish tank when it wears off, yeah?
Option D - You have to keep the shrink ray trained on the creature as you shrink it, which would take time. Zapping a creature with the shrink ray would alert it to your presence, and cause it to either flee or attack you. So if you want a pocket reaper, you'd better learn to dodge while you shrink it down to harmless puppy size.
Comments
I rather have a concussion rifle, that sends a shock wave that knocks out the animal/s for a period of time.
that works underwater
And can both create and erase entire buildings in seconds
And is the size of a cell phone
And not even a modern cell phone
like a 1990's cell phone
The speed of this we can say is from how fast time is moving in relation to our own. Also I can understand a 3d printer from what would be a class 2 or 3 civilization going a lot faster then our generation 1 3d printers. Thou granted not this fast.
As for the size of the builder I just don't see it being that size, I mean the parts that spray the material and treat them sure. But since has to have an part that preps the material like titanium for being used. Unless the character for some reason turns all the material he has into thin wire so it can be just feed strait into the fabricators, without a part having to prep the material.
Also on the matter of time what type of star does this planet orbit and how fast is it's rotation, because right now it seems like the planet rotates fulling in less then what would be 24 hours in game time. If using the thirst and hunger gauges as a rough estimate for the time frame things are going off of. Unless the player is genetically modified to burn through calories and water at a much higher rate then we would.
Which is why I discussed ways we could make it not overpowered in the OP