Questions about SE4 Gold

[Gaurav]

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Originally posted by oleg:
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Originally posted by Gaurav:
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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
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Armor components with large hitpoint values are usually hit Last.
Internals with low hitpoint values are usually hit Last.
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Nobody else noticed this
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Hmmm, actually this is a common knowledge. You can check it by running combat simulator and taking notice of the order of components destroyed.

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Unbelieveable!
Oleg: Which is Last, large hitpoint values or low hitpoint values?

[ 17 April 2002: Message edited by: Gaurav ]

[oleg]

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Originally posted by Gaurav:


Unbelieveable!
Oleg: Which is Last, large hitpoint values or low hitpoint values?

[ 17 April 2002: Message edited by: Gaurav ]

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Exactly as Suicide Junkie posted before:

Smaller armour component is likely to be hit before bigger one.

The reverse is true for internals: bigger components are more likely to be damaged before smaller.

The later is easy to rationalize: Let's assume that ship has 100 hit points worth of components. When ship is hit, SE IV rolls a dice and decides where inside structure to allocate the damage. Then, component with 40 hit points has 40% chance to be hit, while component with 10 points has only 10%.

It is much more difficult to speculate about armour. May be SE uses reciprocal values ?

[capnq]

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Smaller armour component is likely to be hit before bigger one.

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I think it's actually the smaller armor component is more likely to take enough damage in one turn to be destroyed, but I'm not absolutely certain about that.