slade2501 wrote:Plasma explosions, ok heres a question folks: why give a weapon that can only damage the main body of a target a blast radius? it hits every main body inside a 15 ft radius? ever main body only inside a 30ft globe? or does it burn everything inside that 30 ft, like the trees, rocks, ground, etc. does a gas explosion only damage the people in it, or does it burn walls, blow out windows, set furniture on fire, etc? main body damage only eases record-keeping but it don't work for realism with explosions.
and trust me, nothing feels more real then being ringside to an explosion. they are some scary stuff yo.
plasma missiles are basically ballistic fuel/air explosions, as ANYTING burns at the touch of plasma: air, trees, rock, stone, brick metal glass, concrete. Watch a video of a plasma torch cutting damn near anything then imagine that by Rifts rules a plasma torch is a 1md or less damage tool. plasma missiles or grenades is like getting belched on by a STAR. The surface of teh sun is 5605 Celsius on average. the temperature of a plasma torch is 28000 °C. thats 5 times hotter than the surface of our sun.
its gonna hurt, and its gonna hurt your EVERYTHING.
Damage from AOE is not applied to every part of every thing for several reason. It has been debated here several times.
Such as
1 it renders aoe weapons insanely lethal.
2 it adds to book keeping.
A HE as I understand it deals damage by applying sudden impact to every thing in its blast radius.
A fuel air explosion as I understand it spreads a special combustible material over an area then detonates that material resulting in a even amount of pressure across ed the primary kill zone.(a normal bomb force dispates as you move away the source of the explosion.)
A rifts plasma missile if I recall is described as burning, napalm like affect that means a rifts missile is nothing like a fueled air bomb that crushes the target as the primary damage source of damage. It is more a globe of fire affect by description than a true explosion.
(The idea of inconstant rulings on aoe does kind of erk me, as fundamental flawed concept if you are going to have a fire ball damage every part it touches then a pressure shock wave should as well.)