[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by Din Ahmed:
What the difference between ECM & Jammer? One gives you defense and the other reduces the enemy’s ability to target you (-XX Targeting or something in the description). If the enemy misses when he shoots those beam weapons at me, is it due to the Defense or unable to target (Jammer).

For one thing, you can have one of each on a ship - you can't have two ECM's or two jammers. Also, I might be misreading this, but the jammer ability description (-X *target* attack rating) seems to imply that it only works against the ship you're currently targeting, though I really have no way of testing that out (well I guess I could create a super jammer with -1000 target attack rating... )

And while we are at it, what are the difference between Standard shields and Advance Phased Shields. They’re more expensive for the same amount of shielding but don't see any discernable difference.

Phased shields block phased polaron beams, and any weapons you mod that have the damage type "Normal Shield Piercing". Or at least they're supposed to - I'm not sure if the bug that prevented them from working was fixed yet. In any event, just like in SE4, all the shields on your ship have to be phased for the effect to work. Yeah, it's probably a waste, given the scarcity of phased weapons, but then you never know when you'll run into one of those PPB-armed pirates who effectively halves your hitpoints

How can we make the beam weapons (for both enemies or mine) for accurate. Both of us miss soo bad that I simply just stick to Meson BLasters for the mean time.

Most (if not all) ships are equipped with Combat Sensors and ECM, so increasing the effectiveness of the CS or decreasing that of the ECM would do the trick... or I think you can add attack and defense bonuses or penalties to hulls, but that would require more modifications

[ December 03, 2003, 21:32: Message edited by: Ed Kolis ]