[Blade]

The solid doesn't have to be so big that it kills him. It can actually be only about a milimeter or 2 across so the victim would easily survive. And once the solid si coated with the virus, it is pretty much guaranteed infection because it has pierced the skin. Of course many problems would have to be overcome, but after maybe 15-20 years of research and testing , it could be made.
But enough about that because it is only a game! Not an exact representation of the real world! Let some people use their creativity for onece, GEEZ. I wonder if westwood would have much of anything in their game if it had this kind of criticizing.

Chances are that at such extreme velocity, the virus would eiher be killed on the projectile or it would have to be bound so tightly to it to make it to the target that it wouldn't dissociate in the fraction of a second that it takes to pass through the person you hit. Rail guns are not very good choces for trying to deliver a biological agent to a target and so you wouldn't make a mutating rail gun.

[goliedude]

It would only take one little cell to mutate the organism. As i said, this would take a few years to research, and that could easily be overcome by tib that is a little bit wider than the body, then the virus does not get interfered with the air flow.
But all this about technology is irrelevent because RA2 has taken a different step in time. If it exists or not in this world doesn't matter because RA2 could have completely different technology. In RA2 rail gun technology could be centuries ahead of ours because of time warp. You refering to the technology of today has nothing to do with that of RA2

A toy gauss rifle in action http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scito...fle/slomo5.gif

[Lpark]

oh for fucks sake ill call it what ever i fucking want. besides the fact that it was a damn idea im just throwing together a voxel


WAY TO RAPE THE COMMUNITY OF ITS CREATIVE THINKING, GOD FORBID SOMEONE THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

[Godwin]

u're so childish...oh wait, child-like

creativity is not taking soething to the extent of being rediculous

[Tom2003uk]

[trap] everyone shut [/trap] ,
such a shame this code doesnt work .

[ArgCmdr]

Originally Posted by Godwin

creativity is not taking soething to the extent of being rediculous

Correct.
Realise that what u can make in the game can be as unreal as you want, but you dont want it ridiculous, do you?

The speed of a railgun is already enough powerful to dispiate what it would carry on the projectile before it hits the target, even viruses.
It is true however that a virus can get in a body through skin sometimes, and of course by blood and rest of usual contacts. In the blood case, if a railgun hits a man, and the railgun having an adequate and non-ridiculous firepower, it would rather kill the target before the virus mutates it, and as well, even if the DNA is changed the target would die anyway unless its a giant magnet.

Thinking outside of the box is ok, the game is unreal at most, but Blade is extremely correct on saying combining real world elements with phantasy elements is kinda ridiculous. When a player that lknows what a railgun is and how it works sees, it he will say, "Hey, thats bullsh*t". If u catch someone who only cares how powerful units are **cough**n00bs**cough**, they will not give anything bout it, theyll love cause...well cause they are n00bs.

You can try what you want, but still, what u do, will decide if your mod is gonna be taken seriously, or just another n00b mod around (not meaning the creator is a n00b but the players are)

[Lpark]

I get what your saying but the fact still stands, Were argueing over two words that were randomly placed one infront of the other becuase i couldnt think of anyother way to describe the idea. An idea that i mearly stated and was never meant for a mod. the idea spawned an idea for a voxel. for fucks sake drop it

[Tom2003uk]

Yeh, everyone just follow my code and shut up for the moment and get back to the topic - Showing off!
Does everyone like my Patriot Tank (to the left on my avatar)

The base is too small. If it fired its missiles, it would flip over.

[Blade]

How is it raping the community of its creative thinking? If anything its trying to encourage a more creative slant by telling people to foget basing stuff on existing technologies that are not compatible. It matters not how far ahead in research the RA2 timeline could be in any given technology. The rail gun is a poorly workable biological delivery system and so much more effective alternatives would be more extensively researched and developed to the point that the railgun would be ignored and obsolete as such a delivery. The rail gun exists to fire a high velocity kinetic round to smash a target to bits, not for precision delivery of a fragile biological agent. Just sticking two words together isn't creative. Call it a "mutagenic configurator" or something like that that does not confuse with any real world technology and gives suome suggestion as to what it does. That took me all of three seconds to think of, with some more research into the types of technology that were involved and by maybe using a thesaurus, I'm sure I could come up with even better ones. I'll drop it now, but it annoys me that people don't really even give much thought to the more subtle areas of a modding like making good storylines that fit, comming up with good meaningful names for units (the "myriad" unit has a good name in DeeZire for instance) and thinking more about how a unit will fit into a sides normal line up of technology if it is additional to the RA2 story.