[gameprogrammer] need help with bullets....

hi there all of you,
right now i'm try to develop my side scrolling spaceship game in java. and i 
got a little bit of trouble with the bullet shot by an enemy to the player.

the problem is, the speed of the bullets shot by an enemy are very fast if 
the player position is far, but if the position is close to the enemy then 
the bullet speed is ver very low...

here's what my code looks like....

/** shoot the player... */ 
vectorX = player.getX() - ufos[i].getX();
vectorY = player.getY() - ufos[i].getY();

if((ufos[i].getGunCoolTime() == 0)) {
for(int j = 0; j < shots.length; j++) {
if((shots[j] == null)) {
shots[j] = ufos[i].shoot(vectorX, vectorY);

shootSound.play(); 
break;
}
}
} else {
ufos[i].subsGunCoolTime();
}

and on the method for shoot is just merely create a new Shot instance. 
Here's my method of moving the bullet shot by an enemy :

xPos += vectorX / BULLET_SPEED;
yPos += vectorY / BULLET_SPEED;

maybe you'll ask me why am i dividing the vector with BULLET_SPEED, because 
if i'm not do that, than i merely can't see the bullet shots by the enemy 
because of the high speed.

i hope i have submitted the right amount of information for anyone here to 
help me.

TiA

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