Re: Weapons, engines and mods, Oh my!
 

Bases are ships for many purposes, such as Weapon Target. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif For targeting, Ships/Planets = Ships/Bases/Planets. It does not for the Vehicle Type line (which restricts what vehicle types a comp can be placed on) though.

[ January 31, 2003, 20:22: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Re: Weapons, engines and mods, Oh my!
 

missiles: 25kt seems too drastic. I'd make them 40kt and a lot cheaper"

Consider that point-defense cannons are 20kt and can fire every turn, where missiles can only fire every three turns..and often get shot once or twice on the way in.

Phoenix-D

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Some storms interfere with combat sensors (they give a penalty to hit). I think there might be a nebula or two that does that.

If you use FQM, there are a lot of places that will interfere with combat sensors. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Yea, but missles have great range. You can pull into range, fire the missles and back away until the reload time is done. I don't feel anything is wrong with missles. Torps are another issue.

(as is strategic combat) yuk http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: Weapons, engines and mods, Oh my!
 

[quote]Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Some storms interfere with combat sensors (they give a penalty to hit). I think there might be a nebula or two that does that. If you use FQM, there are a lot of places that will interfere with combat sensors. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Exactly. If torps were the best weapon in a nebula, they would have a great, but limited use. and not much other balancing would have to be done then. maybe. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Technically, combat sensors are unaffected by storms. The ships just get a penalty to hit.

Seekers are the only weapons that can be unaffected by storms.

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"You can pull into range, fire the missles and back away until the reload time is done."

And watch as they all get shot down? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Phoenix-D

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I'm still pretty new here but I for one like torpedoes. I'll put about 3 of them on a destroyer and go up point blank and fire away. The A I is usually concentrating on the bigger ships which I load with weapon,engine and shield destroying type weapons as well as the null space weapons.

The torpedoes are especially effective after the enemies shields have been eliminated by the other ships.

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PPBs, APBs, etc. do a lot more damage than those torpedoes per kiloton though.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Urk? I think the assumption is that even when you don't have a CS component in the ship there are combat sensors of some sort involved. The ability is named 'Sector - Sensor Interference' after all.

Explain to me how seekers are affected by storms?