Ionic Disperser do not work in 1.91

[Wardad]

Originally posted by Ragnarok-X:
in addition, remember weapons that only damage to X, such as only to shields and only to engines need to DESTROY a component in ONE turn. The damage does NOT stack. So if you did 19 damage and the each engine has 20 hp you wont ever destroy one.

Is that ONE TURN or ONE HIT?

[PvK]

Pretty sure it's one hit. ID's without enough damage to kill one enemy engine will have no effect.

PvK

[Kamog]

If it doesn't skip shields, does the weapon at least do damage to the shields? So if you keep hitting with the ionic dispersers, eventually the shields would go down and then it will start destroying the engines, right?

[Fyron]

Yes, IDs damage shields before the shields are down. They have really good damage ratios, so they are nearly as good as regular weapons for knocking down shields (except for Shield Depleters, of course). The best solution, of course, is to stick a nice shield depleter or two as the first weapon(s) on your warships. Helps with or without using IDs.

[ March 17, 2004, 01:35: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Kamog]

Thanks!

It's fun to damage the engines of a bunch of enemy ships so they just sit around, unable to move, costing them maintenance.

[Sivran]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Ionic Dispersers lost the ability to skip shields way back in SE4 1.76.

That directly contradicts my experience. I remember clearly, as at first I thought the IDs not all that useful...until, while doing some experimentation, I discovered IDs skipped shields in 1.84. I never played any Version *but* 1.84 until 1.91 came out, so yeah, IDs skipped shields in 1.84.

[klausD]

Ok, guys. I checked it once more. Ionic dispersers do damage shields. They dont skip them. I did not know that you have to blow up one engine in one hit. I thought that the damage accumulates. But then I am just wondering why one engine has 20 HP and the standard ionic disperser I or II do 15 or so damage points.

sorry wrong alarm

KlausD