Multiple Lasers

Many trader ships can use more than one forwad laser mounts if this OXP is installed.

You will pay multiple amounts of credits when you buy weapons and laser heat will be multiplied as well, so you must be even more careful and save your shots to the best moments.

Usually harder to hit the enemy with all of your lasers due to the horizontal space between the laser beams, more space mean harder usage. Regardless of you hit with your central laser, the additional ones can miss, so you should roll your ship into the best position where all can touch the target at once.

Only Vipers and a few more ships (marked with * in the next tables) hold a special laser which can fire the whole multiplied power through a single central barrel. These shots looks like single but a bit thicker beams.

More numbers in lasers column mean forward, aft, port and starboard sides contain muliple lasers.

Numbers marked with "S" mean there is at least 30m space between mounts, which allow to use Separated Lasers without multiplied heat generation - a big advantage in combat. A few ships benefits even more due to the 30m limit must be earned in 3D so if a laser placed behind the others (in z axis) or lifted up (in y axis) then can be near horizontally. These are marked with (!) in the horizontal space column. So smaller than 30m values are exists in horizontal space on a ship with "S" lasers also, just mark the best ones.

Ship name	Lasers	Horizontal space (m)
Anaconda	3, 3S, 3S, 3S	5, 15(!), 30, 30
Boa	2	3
Boa Class Cruiser	4, 2S	7, 31
Cobra Mark III	3	13
Constrictor	3	4
Fer-de-Lance	2*	0
Krait	3	45
Python	1, 2	0, 15
Viper	2*	0
Viper Interceptor	2*	0

The following OXP ships will use multiple lasers also.

Ship name	Lasers	Horizontal space (m)
Arachnid Mark 1, Arachnid Escort	3*	0
Asp Mark II Special	3, 3	8, 11
Caduceus	3S	35
Cat	2S	59
Chameleon	3*	0
Cobra Clipper	3	12
Cobra Courier	3	13
Cobra Cutlass	3	14
Cobra Rapier	3	14
Chopped Cobra/S9	3	13
Cobra Mark IV Black	3	13
D.T.T. War Lance	3S, 3	19(!), 10
Ghavial, Ghavial Escort	2S	33
Griff Cobra MkIII Alt	3	11
Griff Viper High Poly	2*	0
Griff Viper Interceptor High Poly	2*	0
Hornet	3S	8(!)
Iguana	2S	45
King Cobra	3*	0
Monitor Mark II	2	3
Mussurana	4*	0
Ophidian Escort	2	8
Python Class Cruiser	2, 2	13, 9
Python ET Special	2, 2	3, 3
Pitviper Mark II	4S	20(!)
Stormbrewer	3S	30
S8 Escort	3	13
Vector	2S, 2*	28(!), 0
Viper Raider	2*	0
Wolf Mark I, Wolf Mark I Escort	2S	24(!)
Wolf Mark II	3, 2S	10, 30

Pitviper in action:

This addon use multiply weapon_mount_mode of Oolite 1.83 introduced here in shipdata-overrides.plist, like this:

"oolite_template_anaconda" = {
   weapon_mount_mode = "multiply";
   weapon_position_forward = ("-5.5 -6.2 81.8", "0.0 -4.6 73.97", "5.5 -6.2 81.8");
};

License

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License version 4.0.

If you are re-using any piece of this OXP, please let me know by sending an e-mail to norbylite at gmail.com.

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Changelog

2016.01.23. v1.2  Fer-de-Lance hold dual forward lasers in the same center position.
                  Staer9's Monitor Mark II has dual forward lasers.
                  Fixed "cannot make vector" errors.
2016.01.23. v1.1  Aft dual lasers: Boa Class Cruiser (Fw:4), Python (Fw:1), Wolf Mark II (Fw:3).
                  Anaconda hold 3-3 lasers on all sides.
                  Black Cobra4 has 3 forward lasers in the same central position.
                  Constrictor has 3 lasers.
                  DTT War Lance has 3 forward and 3 aft lasers.
                  Staer9's Asp Mark II Special has 3 forward and 3 aft lasers.
                  Staer9's Chameleon has 3 forward lasers in the same central position.
                  Staer9's Mussurana has 4 forward lasers in the same position (for 875kcr).
                  Staer9's Python Class Cruiser and Python ET Special got 2 forward and 2 aft lasers.
                  Stormbrewer has 3 forward lasers and gun subentitites.
                  Vector has 2 forward and 2 aft lasers, aft ones in the same position.
                  Compatible with Random Hits and Random Hits Shipset OXPs.
2016.01.17. v1.0  First release.

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