Strategies...Damage section?

nesrall · #1 January 14th, 2004, 04:18 PM

In setting your strategies under the damage section...there is a box to check that says ..damage until all weapons are gone...I was assuming that overrides the percent of damage to a ship but I notice my ships keep firing until they totally disperse of the enemy ship, of course long after the enemy ship isn't firing back at them...Do I need to drop ship damage to 0 percent for my ships to quit firing at the enemy ship when his weapons are gone...or does checking that strategy box really have no effect & my ships will keep firing til the enemy ship has been defeated anyway...Any observations on this would be greatly appreciated....Thanks!

Loser · #2 January 14th, 2004, 06:07 PM

And does it count as no-weapons if he has no supplies?

oleg · #3 January 14th, 2004, 06:57 PM

Strange, it works fine for me. Ships fire on armed ships first.

Do you see it in the real battle or in simulator ? I am sure strategies do not work properly in simulator for some reason.

nesrall · #4 January 14th, 2004, 07:13 PM

I see it in the real combat replay in a PBW game...I have armour skipping weapons (crystal)& am fighting an organic race...well after my SC's mess up his entire inner ship...they continue to finish off his organic armour (which is obviously not a weapon)while his ships with weapons continue to fire on them...so I have to believe checking that box to "damage until weapons are gone"...doesn't do a damn thing...It might as well say...completely destroy ship from what I see.

primitive · #5 January 14th, 2004, 07:21 PM

IIRC the "fire until all weapons are gone" is only a priority thing. If there are no other available targets in range (or your ships don't have Multiplex tracking) its back to the old target.

nesrall · #6 January 14th, 2004, 07:55 PM

I have realized at the start of each turn the ships all decide to...fire at 1 particular ship no matter what that turn & not choose another(unless they destroy that 1st ship)...but the assault on the 1st ship continued on into the next turn...& the initially damaged ship had no weapons left (or anything else but organic armour)...& there were other targets in range with weapons...this was a 5 on 5 battle so my 5 ships destroyed his 1st ships' insides leaving that 1 ship immobile & with no weapons...but then next turn when I figured they shoot at a different ship they didn't, they continued to destroy that 1st ship completely & then moved on to another ship finally