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Ion Cannon v2

This is a 5 x effect (range & time) version of my earlier Ion Cannon

This mod adds small and large block variants of a Star Wars-stye Ion Cannon, to let you temporarily disable "functional" blocks on your enemies (or friends, if you prefer.)

The projectile doesn't deal damage to grids, although it will certainly hurt you if you're in the way. When it hits, however, it will affect any active blocks within a radius (about 100m for the small version, 250m for the large version.) All affected blocks will turn off for about twenty-thirty seconds, then back on again in sequence starting with the ones furthest from the impact point. Any blocks which are not active (i.e. they've been manually turned off) when the projectile hits will NOT be affected.

Obviously the ability to disable other grids is a pretty significant advantage in combat, so these are a few balancing methods I've included:
* Gun fires quite slowly. The large block will keep a section of grid "locked down" (i.e. inactive) if continuously fired at, but not the whole of large grids.
* Simultaneous hits from multiple guns do NOT add time nor range to the effect.
* 300m/s speed for the projectile, not super-fast.

Should give some lighting effects to impacted blocks, and tested OK on dedicated servers.

Massive thanks go out to BruceCarcharias for putting the model together for me.

There's a permanent-disable version of this mod so comments asking for me to make one will be giggled-at.