A few questions from a Newbie

[General Woundwort]

Filling in the blank for question 5...

Originally posted by Maerlyn:
5. the amount of damage my space ships take when they travel through a "strange" warp point. is this damage totally random?

No more random than any other damage. It gets applied to defenses, then internals (I don't recall if it skips shields or not).

does it (also) depend on the size of the ship? does it also depend on the number of ships entering such a warp gate at the same time?

No and no. Each ship, of whatever size, receives the same amount of damage.

what is the maximum damage these ships could be dealt to by a warpgate?

Depends on what is specified in the terrain text file. If it's Fyron's Quadrant mod, I think the scurvy dog set the damage on some of them as high as 200 points.