In other words I fail at reading Rika's Garage.
Disregard my shit then. Le sigh.
I can change it if people think your ideas are better.
The last one is kinda cool but has extremely random DPS (or I can just select predetermined spots from an array at random, then refresh the array once it's depleted... Which will give the look of random shooting, but the dps will be consistant to most of the spots above the player over a certain time period, say, three or four seconds. Don't worry -- the programmers know what I mean). The shot type will look very messy though.
Maybe some fusion of idea #1 and #3...
I probably should've just posted a picture in the first place:
serpgotcurves.jpg
Note that the lines indicate shooting, not stinking.
This is the effect I was trying to picture in guess #2, but my MSPaint fails. \o/
Also, fucking lasers. It's doable though, if anybody agrees with the idea. Keep in mind, however, with so much additive blending (drawing curved lasers), some people may suffer significant slowdown, so I might have to convert the shot type to actual bullets instead of lasers, to spare people the computer bleed.
Damn guys whats with all the lasers