From:	wilsonpj@******.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (Peter)
Subject:	Re: rates of fire
Date:	Tue, 14 May 1996 09:58:00 -0600

bert.vandemerckt@****.be wrote:

>Andre' Selmer wrote:
>>
>> We play it that any character can fire a maximum number of
>> bullets in a round. We assumed that the maximum number of actions any
>> character can get is four, that we multiplied by the number of round
>> the gun can fire in an action. That is the maximum a character can
>> fire in a round, reguardless of initative. Accuracy on the other hand
>> is dependent on the characters skill.
>
>Now that's an idea!
>


You're forgetting that the caracter needs an action to squeeze the trigger.
Therefore the character with the slower reaction time won't get a chance
to pull the trigger untill the faster one has done so (more than once in
some cases). This would have an effect if the slower character was using a
weapon on full auto, continuing from the preceding turn.

Lets use the same example again, looking as two characters in the middle of
a larger fire fight. Street Sam Joe fires at another target on 22 and 12,
taking it out in his second phase. On 8 Hermetic Harry has seen the muzzle
flash but can't see Joe well enough to target a spell on him, so he decides
to spray down the area with a LMG he picked off a dead guard. (how hard
can it be?) He announces that he is going to fire for two phases, and
pulls the trigger. In his next turn, the LMG will fire untill he can
release the trigger again on 8 (to keep things simple). That is assuming
that Joe doesn't nail him on any of his intervening phases of action.

How does this look. (now you know why we _never_ tell mages to do the lead
hose)

>> In this manner the rate of fire is dependet on the gun, not on
>> the characters initative, but these 'wasted' shots are worthless
>> (except they do count towards recoil ;)

>So the 'wasted shots' have no chance of hitting (bystanders preferably
>innocent >) whatsoever?

Good point. How do you determine the colateral damage of these wasted shots?
(or any miss for that matter)

Piatro