I'm afraid that I disagree with the crowd of people that seem to *assume* that
every advanced fire arm, notably laser rifles, carbines, and rifles, but also
slug throwers will have advanced sighting, aiming and stabilizing features, and
that people will use them all the time.
I assume that the standard models have no advanced features because of cost and
skill of the user constraints, and also because there are a lot of situations
where the additional benifit is minimal. I also believe that in general
society places a higher priority on high TL spaceships for example then making
sure every tom, dick and harry has the most advanced and highest possible TL
weapons with all the bells and whistles.
Advanced features are of course available for the elite who wish to pay more
and take the time to use them correctly, but there are plenty of weapons
without advanced features, and plenty of people who don't know who to use them,
and lots of situations where the the additional benifit is minimal.
Now, I'm not saying I'm right and you're wrong; I merely want to state an
opposing opinion.
Jim Baranski
Digital System Manager for Rent
Rocky Hill/Norwich CT