So they reduce the resistance even if you don't have the guns active... I would have though it would have been far better to only apply the resistances reduction to the ships when the guns are firing, that way there is a bit of strategy and skill involved.

These glass cannon weapons don't sound interesting at all, except if you're in a battleship which will still be able to fit an okay tank... Also, the name is dumb.

i'm irish and i find the names of these weapons extremely offensive

Already used for neuts, charged sounds nice imo, charged with the resistances from your ship.

I'm asking this only because I'm interested in words generally, and am likewise interested in the strong reaction to "blighted".

If you won't give us numbers and the modules aren't available to test, what is the point of this thread?

This is what I was thinking as well. Aside from the naming issue (which is bad) and the idea proposed by Phoenix Jones (which is good - no corp bias) having the resist loss only while the guns are active makes a lot more sense from a tactical standpoint. From the discussions about the T3 Dessies, it is evident that changing bonuses to hulls on the fly in space is now possible based on "______" so it stands to reason that it ought to be possible to alter the hull stats based on active state of any one of these weapons.

In this way, pilot skill and battlefield awareness play a role in when or when not to active these "Ultimate (insert name) weapons of Deadliness +5" weapon systems.

This new glass cannons seems to be usless, because of that huge penalty. For example if the numbers are correct they increase your DPS up to 8-18% in the same time they increase the damage of your opponent on you by ammount of resists that you had before (up to 90+%), so it's obvious not a good idea to use this guns, especially because they gonna cost a lot.

But it just sounds like these weapons are damaged or suck

I've no idea if the pastebin info is legit or not

I think the point you are missing is the enemy ship won't have weapons.

I think "Normal" might be the wrong word, but maybe "natural" might suit better? Doing some research I've dug up a few references to blight. We've got a location in The Wheel of Time series, a location in Worlds of the Imperium, some malfunctioning terraforming microbes, a T.E.S. disease, an alien race in DC comics, a Transformer, a baddy in seminal cartoon classic "Captain Planet" and of course the aforementioned WC3. This is around a 50/50 split to 75/25 split of fantasy/scifi, depending on your definitions of them both I guess. This leads me to draw the conclusion that it's a word that people think is cool, maybe even quite badass, despite its most common usage to be to describe bad potatoes

EDIT: Missed out on like, half of the Nurgle forces of WH40k, but you get the idea

i'm irish and i find the names of these weapons extremely offensive