[Arkcon]

Originally posted by asmala:

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Originally posted by Arkcon:
Shields are hitpoints on units. The shield depleter won't target sats. I checked, ... the phased polaron beam does bypass the hitpoints generated by normal shields on sats

What about normal shields on fighters?

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I didn't check, the inherent defense bonus of fighters would muddy the results.

I built 2 stacks of 10 sats at different planets. One set was just one shields 3, the other was just one phased shields 2. They both generate the same amount of points, 150.

The opponent ship has one large mount phased polaron beam 1, and one large mount antiproton beam 4. At point blank range, both do 60 points of damage.

At point blank range, tactical combat, select just one or the other weapon, the polaron beam knocks out one normal sat per hit. The antiproton beam needs 4 hits to knock out one normal sat. Both beams require 4 hits to knock out a phased sat.

Here's a question... the APB misses a couple of times during my test runs, the polaron beam never does. I don't recall the polaron beam having a to hit bonus. Could it be hard coded? Or could it be some artifact of the way the beam works? Or maybe because it has more range, it gets a better to hit bonus at point blank range?

[ January 25, 2003, 15:29: Message edited by: Arkcon ]