Having all the weapon Mods active at the same time would not be good. Plasma that could only do Kinetic damage. Rail Guns that could only do Thermal damage. Not sure what Lasers get.
Also the Devs need to seriously fix the Plasma Weapon Mods. And when you fix them, change the ones in a players inventory as well and the store. 1 Weapon system to do the damage that is strongest against shields and then a Weapon Mod to change it to the damage that is strongest against hulls. WTF were you seriously thinking, is my question.
A Plasma based weapon system, should never be doing Kinetic Damage. The material is all ready heated past the point it can be physical in nature, make it do Thermal damage instead. Which would follow science a lot closer.
Copied this from Wikipedia to help explain it better.
Matter commonly exists in four states (or phases): solid, liquid and gas, and plasma. . However, advances in experimental techniques have revealed other phases that were previously only theoretical constructs, such as Bose–Einstein condensates and fermionic condensates. A focus on an elementary-particle view of matter also leads to new phases of matter, such as the quark–gluon plasma.[5] For much of the history of the natural sciences people have contemplated the exact nature of matter. The idea that matter was built of discrete building blocks, the so-called particulate theory of matter, was first put forward by the Greek philosophers Leucippus (~490 BC) and Democritus (~470–380 BC).[6]
Albert Einstein showed[7] that ultimately all matter is capable of being converted to energy (known as mass-energy equivalence) by the famous formula E = mc2, where E is the energy of a piece of matter of mass m, times c2 the speed of light squared. As the speed of light is 299,792,458 meter per second (186,282 mi/s), a relatively small amount of matter may be converted to a large amount of energy. An example is that positrons and electrons (matter) may transform into photons (non-matter). However, although matter may be created or destroyed in such processes, neither the quantity of mass or energy change during the process.
Rail gun mods to change to Thermal Damage, yes.
Laser mods to change to EM damage, yes. As they all ready release Radiation.
Lasers are distinguished from other light sources by their coherence. Spatial coherence is typically expressed through the output being a narrow beam which is diffraction-limited, often a so-called “pencil beam.” Laser beams can be focused to very tiny spots, achieving a very high irradiance, or they can be launched into beams of very low divergence in order to concentrate their power at a large distance.
Temporal (or longitudinal) coherence implies a polarized wave at a single frequency whose phase is correlated over a relatively large distance (the coherence length) along the beam.[3] A beam produced by a thermal or other incoherent light source has an instantaneous amplitude and phase which vary randomly with respect to time and position, and thus a very short coherence length.
Most so-called “single wavelength” lasers actually produce radiation in several modes having slightly different frequencies (wavelengths), often not in a single polarization. And although temporal coherence implies monochromaticity, there are even lasers that emit a broad spectrum of light, or emit different wavelengths of light simultaneously. There are some lasers which are not single spatial mode and consequently their light beams diverge more than required by the diffraction limit. However all such devices are classified as “lasers” based on their method of producing that light: stimulated emission. Lasers are employed in applications where light of the required spatial or temporal coherence could not be produced using simpler technologies.
TerminologyThe word laser started as an acronym for “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”;
EM mods to change to Thermal damage, yes.
Sorry about all the science stuff in here, but it should be looked at.
