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From: "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: Toyz!
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 21:14:50 -0700
>> Just a note on the ammo types presented, primarily the
>>DPU flechete rounds, or any rounds used in the entire game
>>system. A DPU round is extremely dense and heavy, working
>>primarily under the principle that a very dense warhead (Uranium
>>weighs approxamately 6-8 times more than steel per unit volume)
>>travelling at high speed will just push through defenses
>>(such as tank hulls).
>> For this reason, I would consider limiting DPU ammo
>>to larger bore weapons, such as LMGs and higher, and also
>>include a vehicular weapon damage then for these weapons.
>>Flechete would be more effective as "human" tank killers.
Good idea, but one problem. LMGs are not large bore weapons. They use the
same type of ammo as Assault Rifles.

>> Also, I wouldn't give players this ammo. I really
>>hate having to constantly come up with new NPC's...
Anything NPC have, the players will have. They might (and probably will) have
to kill them to get it, but they'll have it none the less.

See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker

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