[Din Ahmed]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
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... )

After testing quite a bit, since I was using a smaller ship, putting Jammers rather than ECM saved me from getting shot from BEAM weapons the most. I believe all enemies are affected by the Jammer and not just your targeted enemy since I found that in a big fight 3 on 1. All of them missed me just as much.

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

So phased shield block those shield piercing damage so it doens't get to the hull directly... Never really noticed that until you mentioned it.

Anyhow, about the torps, I found that even with 1 PD, I can sometimes shoot through multiple torps if they're coming from the same ship. Though I've yet to get 5 torps a coming...

About the Targetting computer & Combat sensor thing... Even with the best equipment and (I think high... )high Attack Stat about 25 I still miss with beam weapons. Its as if they can't hit the broad side of the barn ( relatively speaking).

[ December 04, 2003, 00:51: Message edited by: Din Ahmed ]