====== Bridge officer weaponry comparison ======
===== Intro =====
Weapons fire at a different rate on bridge officers. Roughly every 5 seconds. The secondary fire of the weapons waits for cooldown but also some other condition. ie. dual pistol secondary only fires at extreme close range.
==== Weapons tested (mk xi common unless noted)====
  * Plasma Piercing Beam Rifle Mk XI [CrtH]x2 [Dmg] (mk ix from vender in sphere equipment room, can be upgraded) (secondary cd= NA, uses plasma fuel)
  * Compression pistol (secondary cd=4 sec)
  * wide beam pistol (secondary cd=4 sec)
  * dual pistols (secondary cd=5 sec)
  * High density beam (secondary cd=6 sec)
  * split beam (secondary cd=6 sec)
  * Sniper rifle (secondary cd=8 sec)
  * pulsewave (secondary cd=8 sec)
  * Full auto rifle (secondary cd=8 sec)
  * Blast assault (secondary cd=12 sec)
  * minigun (secondary cd=12 sec)

==== Method ====
  * 4 tactical bridge officers with exactly the same training, battle strategies I, and target Optics I
  * Test conducted on nimbus scorpions
  * Captain does not fire, only Boffs
  * 5 minutes of battle
===== Results =====
==== Multi target AOE ====
  * Plasma Piercing Beam Rifle Mk XI [CrtH]x2 [Dmg] total damage = 56.7k, Giant scorpion dps = 340
  * pulsewave total damage (close range) = 52.5k Giant scorpion dps = 218
  * Blast assault 42.8k
  * Minigun 38.7k
  * Full auto 35.0k
  * dual pistols 32.8k
  * High density beam 32.3K Giant scorpion dps = 120
  * wide beam pistol 31.7k
  * split beam total damage = 20.9k Giant scorpion dps = 144

==== Single target only ====
  * Compression pistol total damage=28.4k Giant scorpion dps = 145
  * sniper rifle total damage = 27.4k Giant scorpion dps = 138
==== Single Unique weapons (single boff equip)====
  * plasma flamethrower (very short range) 19.9k
  * dyson exp. rifle 13.8k
  * maco rifle mk xii 10.2k
  * adapted maco mk xii 8.7k
  * Nelen Exil's Wide Beam Pistol Mk XI [Dmg] 8.4
  * Shattering Harmonics Crystalline Sword Mk XII 2.2k
===== Notes =====
  * Pulsewave has very good knockback abilty which interrupts npc attacks for a moment. May be the best crowd control at close range.
  * Plasma piercing seem to be best at taking down large target through boff attack command. Good crowd control but no repulse.
===== Future tests =====
  * Will test mk xi version of plasma fueled weapons when upgrade system is in place. (Plasma repeater, plasma charged burst, plasma piercing) (mk ix vender at sphere equipment room)
  * Fluidic Antiproton Wrist Lance