Which components get hit first?

[Andrés]

IIRC it was Erax who found that division by zero error with a troop with a single component that had 0kt structure, I just figure it must work the same way for ships.

My conjeture is that the 0kt-structure components will be the Last to be destroyed, but the ship will explode as soon as it's total structure drops to zero.
This of course would need to playtested to verify.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Andr&eacutes Lescano:
IIRC it was Erax who found that division by zero error with a troop with a single component that had 0kt structure, I just figure it must work the same way for ships.

My conjeture is that the 0kt-structure components will be the Last to be destroyed, but the ship will explode as soon as it's total structure drops to zero.
This of course would need to playtested to verify.

No, I play tested it before my Last post to be sure. I had a ship with normal components, and modded one of them to be zero structure. I got no errors in combat, but the zero structure comp was never hit and the ship was never destroyed. All the other comps were though.

Geoschmo

[Gryphin]

The description of the symptoms by geoschmo is exactly what I was getting when I used the 5kT Supply Bay.
Did I also read that it would be fixed in the next patch?

[capnq]

The description of the symptoms by geoschmo is exactly what I was getting when I used the 5kT Supply Bay.

The Pirates & Nomads mod had working supply bays of 5 and 10 kT, Last I looked.

[Gryphin]

here is the component that caused the symptoms
Name := Supply Storage I 10kT
Description := Area on a starship to store supplies.
Pic Num := 117
Tonnage Space Taken := 10
Tonnage Structure := 0
Cost Minerals := 100

Did not matter what size ship it was in. Once all other components were gone, the ship could not be Hit. I did not try using the Talisman.

The full file:
http://www.windingstream.com/se/gryphin_components.htm

[ December 30, 2002, 23:42: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

[dumbluck]

P&N also has buckytube gel armor, which has 0kt tonnage structure, but er, xkt damage structure (x>0). I don't think he had any problems.

Are we talking about damage structure, or tonnage structure?

[geoschmo]

You are confusing the terms Dumbluck. There is Tonnage Space taken and Tonnage Structure. The issue we are talking about is with components that have a tonnage structure of zero. The PN Bucky armor has a structure greater than zero, it has a tonnage spcace taken that is zero though. As far as I know there is no problem with that as far as the game is concerned.

Geoschmo

[ December 31, 2002, 15:36: Message edited by: geoschmo ]