A coil gun (or gauss gun) shoots physical projectiles using energy to accelerate them in a linear magnetic motor.
This gun needs ammo cartridges, which can be bought in the trade market. One ammo cartridge contains 25 bullets and has a size of 0.008m³ (8 space as 20cm x 20cm x 20cm). (20 cm long, 4 cm diameter)
The gun takes one ammo cartridge, and can be rearmed from the cargo hold. You have to rearm manually and it takes 5 seconds to rearm. Rearming is a physical process and takes no energy. Rearming the gun puts the cartridge inside the gun's content, which therefore needs to have an object container aspect. Only one ammo cartridge can be put into the container.
The gun can be refired, once it has reloaded a bullet and is recharged to put in the energy required to shoot. Both actions take time and energy.
- Reloading is a physical process that takes 0.5 energy with a flow of at maximum 2.5 energy per second. (at least 0.2 seconds)
- Recharging is an energetic process that takes 1.8 energy with a flow of at maximum 6 energy per second. (at least 0.3 seconds)
- The refiring speed is therefore 0.3 seconds minimally.
A gun always preloads a bullet but doesn't precharge. If you release fire during charging, the energy flows back into the energy system with a flow of at maximum 4 energy per second.
Preloading a bullet starts as soon as possible: either immediately upon rearming, or immediately after firing the previous bullet. When preloading finishes, the gun removes the bullet from the contained ammo cartridge by decreasing its amount value, and sets a flag indicating that preloading is done.
The gun can be disarmed by taking the ammo cartridge out of the content.
A coil gun (or gauss gun) shoots physical projectiles using energy to accelerate them in a linear magnetic motor.
This gun needs ammo cartridges, which can be bought in the trade market. One ammo cartridge contains 25 bullets and has a size of 0.008m³ (8 space as 20cm x 20cm x 20cm). (20 cm long, 4 cm diameter)
The gun takes one ammo cartridge, and can be rearmed from the cargo hold. You have to rearm manually and it takes 5 seconds to rearm. Rearming is a physical process and takes no energy. Rearming the gun puts the cartridge inside the gun's content, which therefore needs to have an object container aspect. Only one ammo cartridge can be put into the container.
The gun can be refired, once it has reloaded a bullet and is recharged to put in the energy required to shoot. Both actions take time and energy.
A gun always preloads a bullet but doesn't precharge. If you release fire during charging, the energy flows back into the energy system with a flow of at maximum 4 energy per second.
Preloading a bullet starts as soon as possible: either immediately upon rearming, or immediately after firing the previous bullet. When preloading finishes, the gun removes the bullet from the contained ammo cartridge by decreasing its amount value, and sets a flag indicating that preloading is done.
The gun can be disarmed by taking the ammo cartridge out of the content.