Talk:Noviran Military Technology/@comment-4976451-20120719162349

I'm sorry, but I can't let you have anti-matter rifles. Lemme explain why.

Anti-matter bombs are feasible, a rapid fire rifle? No. Even if it is physically possible it would be giving you an unfair advantage since you would just be able to kill all the infantry/vehicles in 1-2 hits, it decimates armor and hull like butter regardless of what the armor/hull is and shields probably wouldn't have a chance to block it either.

You basically have a weapon that with rapid-fire one-hit kills everything with the only draw back being it may kill its user in a large explosion, which in a RP like this isn't that big of an issue and due to being used by special forces it isn't like they will be grouped togerther or be defending things due to the risk of anti-matter explosion. The combonation of rapid fire along with such devestating projectiles pretty much makes it a rapid-fire BFG.

Besides, your guys even without those weapons are powerful, do you really need a rapid fire one-hit kill weapon?

Oddly enough I am fine with a BFG-type weapon that shoots a bit of anti-matter, but is really heavy and has a very long reload time and still risks killing the user. Mainly because to me, that's much more balanced since it's much more evadable for the person at the other end of the gun.

Similar with anti-matter missile using spaceships, they in some cases can be OP, but because such missiles must be handled very carefully and due to the size of a spaceship, usually don't one-hit kill bigger ships unless they hit a critical area or something and can be evaded/destroyed mid-flight by smaller spaceships like with other missiles.

Another thing with anti-matter stuff is I always picture the projectiles not moving as fast as kinetic projectiles, moseying along lazily to its target instead to keep the anti-matter within stable. However when rapid-fire it still is a wave of death unless you are some flying crytsalline alien or giant chinese space dragon, which most people in this RP aren't.