Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26397825-20170730020549/@comment-30803571-20170804233423

2A00:23C4:8FD7:E300:68EF:6754:60E4:DF0B wrote: Firstly, you explain things like Austin from shoddycast and game theory!:)

Secondly, your explanation was brilliant! This has cleared up everything I needed! Thank you!

Thirdly, would there be a way for the dust to be activated on impact via a crossbow bolt rather than a bullet. If so would the desired effect of making them temporarily have gravity reduced be possible? thank you i guess?, i don't know who that is but i'll take it as a compliment.

regarding your question, i don't see why not. there's already plenty of different kinds of ammunition that trigger stuff on impact and/or timers, like explosive bullets and various others. if gravity dust can be used to make either a normal or inverted gravitational field then it should be possible to have a crossbow bolt make a short lived anti-grav field, or a short lived pulling field.

personally i think it'd depend on how you handle the dust, for example if the bolt's dust is activated while still inside of it the field should be relative to the bolt, thus either attracting or repelling things towards/away from it. if you instead have the bolt unload dust over an area, maybe a surface of just make a cloud of dust on impact which is then activated, then the forces will go in the direction of said area. in a surface they'd either be towards or away from it. meanwhile, in a gravity dust cloud i'd wagger things would be pulled in all directions within it (and lightly towards the cloud from outside of it), so you'd effectively have a small area over which stuff gets lifted in the air as long as the dust lasts.

at least that's how i'd do it, but i'm not a reviewer so take that advice with a grain of salt