The way the game works, you have to assign a weapon a particular class - beam, mass, or missle. The defenses are likewise constrained. So you can not have a weapon that is equally defended for by all classes of defense.

The main coding for the game would have to be changed, and that is unlikely to happen.

Creating pulse weapons is possible, but they would have to be classified as either a mass driver, missle or beam weapon in the TechTree.xml - and that would determine the most effective defense for it.

Aren't Plasma and Disruptors in the Beam Weapons types of pulse weapons?

btw, what is a pulse weapon?

I can make up stuff too and create DisTorsion Cannons.

While we're at it, we should add nukes, knives and sharp sticks.

Given that the existing three weapons function exactly the same way, I'm not sure how a fourth type that isn't substantially different would add very much.

[Defenses ID="Shields III"]
[DisplayName]Shields III[/DisplayName]
[Cost]650[/Cost]
[Description]Mark III shields use even less space than previous generations of shield technology.[/Description]
[Details]Simply put, shields are pretty neat. They aren't terribly good in terms of saving space. But they do protect against damage quite well, particularly from beam weapons. The Mark III shield unit uses substantially less space on a ship than previous generations, thus allowing for more important items to be placed on board.[/Details]
[Category]Shields[/Category]
[Requires]Shields II[/Requires]
[Model]sheilds0[/Model]
[AIValue]4[/AIValue]
[/Defenses]

[Weapons ID="Singularity Driver IV"]
[DisplayName]Singularity Driver IV[/DisplayName]
[Cost]1000[/Cost]
[Description]The ultimate form of singularity driver. [/Description]
[Details]Others said it couldn't be done, but a few extra billion proved them wrong with the Mark IV Singularity Driver.[/Details]
[Category]MD[/Category]
[Requires]Singularity Driver III[/Requires]
[Model]antimatdrive0[/Model]
[AIValue]8[/AIValue]
[/Weapons]

"Category" can only be used once, and only a single value can be used.
You can change the Category, but you can't add to it.

It was an idea, not a Crusade. I am surprised at how hostile some of you were.  

Thanks Quixen for your help.

The idea came more from thinking about the graphical depictions:
We have missiles, and Beam weapons, and projectiles, why not pulsed weapons also.

That is all. If it isn't feasable, ok.
It was just an idea, and asuggestion.

Atlantians: Get used to it. Far too many posters on these forums get "hostile" when something is suggested that they don't understand or don't want to see implemented. I see many ideas thrown around the forum that someone thinks might improve the game. Inevitably, someone else disagrees, often times quite rudely.

Actually, those who shot down your idea did so rather mildly. I've seen much worse.

Wouldn't pulse weapons be good also? Energy pulses.

What kind of energy? There's no such thing as "pure energy".

I hate the way mass driver weapons look. I mean think of a gun; it's a mass driver.
In the game, mass driver shots should travel FAST, like the PROJECTILE it... its not a floaty, slower-than-missile-blob.

I hope they fix this in DA, cause I'm seriously on the fence about the expansion.

I would like to see a defense that would deal damage back to the attacker. Or perhaps a weapon like the ESG from Starfleet Command II.

You cannot have sonic WAVE weapons in the VACUUM of space.

Electrical discharge is all throughout the universe thus any "wave" can be transmitted through space. I am no physicist but I have read enough to know that any "wave" can travel through space. Just because you don't hear it doesn't mean that it isn't there. Besides, this is a game, not a NASA simulator. So look at Star Wars movies, there is obviously sound, since it's a MOVIE. Make believe, ya know. But if you want to be technical, and I think PaladinStorm could add some great insight on this one, energy waves can travel through space. Sound is energy. Energy is a wave. Look it up yourself before tossing out comments.

Just for the fun of it..
"How do the astronauts communicate in space if sound cannot travel in a vacuum?
Since sound does not travel through vacuum, how can the astronauts communicate from space to earth? How do astronauts communicate with each other?

Sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space, but visible light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation can. One of these forms is commonly called radio. The astronauts have devices in their helmets which transfer the sound waves from their voices into radio waves and transmit it to the ground (or other astronauts in space). This is exactly the same as how your radio at home works. Radio waves are often thought of as a form of sound because of their use in this way, but radio waves are NOT sound waves - they are a form of electromagnetic radiation analogous to visible light, and therefore can propagate through a vacuum.

January 2005, Karen Masters (more by Karen Masters)"

Stormbringer, sound is vibration through a medium

A vacuum has no medium.

Thus... Well.