Re: [SG] Shotguns
From: David Brewer <davidbrewer@b...>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:34:32 +0000
Subject: Re: [SG] Shotguns
"Bradley, Jason (US - Minneapolis)" wrote:
>
> "The pattern of pellets will be all around the target, but none in
> it..."
>
> That isn't necessarily true, first of all it depends on how far your
target
> is from you, and the other is that the patterns disperse randomly...
I think it's safe to say that there will be a range at which it is
very hard not to place the pattern over the target but very, very
unlikely that even a single pellet will actually strike it. At
this range your game designer should be saying that a shotgun is
completely ineffective.
--
David Brewer
"The mentally disturbed do not employ the Theory of Scientific
Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of
facts." - P.K.Dick (from VALIS)