Ramming Damage

[geoschmo]

Aha, I was all wrong.

The tonnage of the other ship does matter, and the advantage from settings does go to the target.

The rammer gets damage equal to 100% of the structure of the target. The target gets damage equal to 60% of the structure of the rammer.

So a smaller * ship ramming a larger ship will always be destroyed. A larger ship ramming a smaller ship will not be destroyed. It might not necesarily destroy the smaller ship though on the first ram. It depends on the size difference between the two.

And it does appear, but I am not certain yet, need to test it more, that only intact comps are factored into the damage. Not positive either how the warhead is factored in, but I will let you knwo if/when I figure it out.

Geoschmo

*EDIT: Smaller and larger are not technically correct. Since a ship can be smaller and have more strutcure since armor and other comps can have more structure then they take up in space. The critical number is structure not size.

[ February 03, 2003, 20:19: Message edited by: geoschmo ]