Weapons Ready, Captain! news - Empire in the Sky Game

Ship-to-ship combat versus our procedural Alien friends is coming together.  There are five types of weapons: grenades, missiles, beams, bullets and blasters.  Since we recently implemented three of these, here's the scoop:

Three main weapon types:

Bullets: Conventional arms are still in use in this projected future.  Metal slugs have the unique ability to pass through energy shields, disrupting them and contacting the hull directly.

Beams: Projected particle beams are susceptible to energetic dissipation when they come into contact with shields, but often the power of a good beam can pop a shield and send it into overload.

Blasters: Probably the most visually stunning, blasters work wonders heating up the external surfaces of an enemy starship.

Types of damage:

Negative Ions:  Weapons with a large number of negative ions in their munition ratings easily dissipate enemy shields.

Radiation:  Highly radioactive weapons can irradiate a hull on contact, hurting crew morale and frying magnetic media and other imperative ship systems.

Infrared:  Raw cooking power of a blaster, beam or HE bullet.