What does MultiTracking do?

dmm · #1 October 2nd, 2000, 11:29 PM

Please pardon the dumb question: What does MultiTracking do? I can't figure it out.

Master Belisarius · #2 October 3rd, 2000, 04:05 AM

If you have a super ship with 10 Hig-Energy Magnifier, but without multitracking, you only can fire the 10 powerful weapons, against one ship at the same time.
If you have mult.tracking 10, you can fire against 10 enemies at the same time.

Psitticine · #3 October 3rd, 2000, 07:01 AM

As MB says, it is supposed to let you target more than one enemy in a turn.

Unfortunately, you seem to be able to do that without it.

If you click off weapons, you can fire at one ship, click the unfired weapons back on, and fire them at another ship. I believe that is supposed to work only with multiplex tracking but it doesn't seem to require it.

Also, if you destroy a ship, you can redirect the unfired weapons you had trained on that ship elsewhere. I think that, too, is meant to be only for ships with multiplex tracking.

IOW, as far as I can tell, it's bugged.

Master Belisarius · #4 October 3rd, 2000, 03:52 PM

Psitticine: what you said is right, but you was talking about tactic combats (when you can select the ships to fire on).
But the mult. track. works in strategy combats: try it in the combat simulator using the auto-resolve option.

Rambie · #5 October 3rd, 2000, 10:55 PM

It's a bug in the Demo. MM has fixed it so ships cannot fire on more than one ship if it does not have Multiplex tracking. This does not count for Point-Defense weapons.

Rambie

Psitticine · #6 October 4th, 2000, 05:46 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Rambie:
It's a bug in the Demo. MM has fixed it so ships cannot fire on more than one ship if it does not have Multiplex tracking. This does not count for Point-Defense weapons.

Good news! Thanks for letting us know!