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I do disagree slightly with that first point. RougeDC's gun system, which is primarily k-nn precise intersection targeting, did benefit slightly from the inclusion of a "Single Tick" PM targeting system. Switching between it and the main targeting system seems to pay off slightly against some surfers the targeting would otherwise have more trouble with. In general though, I do agree that simple guns in a virtual gun system won't gain all that much.

I wouldn't exactly term a Single-Tick PM gun as 'simple' ;-) I was more thinking along the line of HOT, linear, circular, random linear and averaged linear. Single-Tick is still something I need to play with... possibly Single-Tick KNN?

Well... my current opinion is that the single-tick thing just wastes way too much CPU to be worth it. Maybe it would be worth trying a similar concept with a larger fixed number of ticks though... like predicting forward in 10-tick intervals...