SEV early game battle strategy vs. SEIV

[tmcc]

Does sound like a bug in the weapon allocation routine. It should only assign a 150% overkill as a default, and this should be adjustable, not 100 missiles at one frigate

TM

[StarShadow]

AFAIK, it is adjustable, in Settings.txt

This section:

Estimated Targeting Damage Percent for Torpedo Weapon := 50
Estimated Targeting Damage Percent for Directed Torpedo Weapon := 50
Estimated Targeting Damage Percent for Beam Weapon := 50
Estimated Targeting Damage Percent for Bolt Weapon := 50

[AngleWyrm]

One possible difference: Are Overkills being computed once per target or once per targetting ship?

If fire allocation can be done on a more global basis, rather than an individual shooter basis, then better performance will result.

With this in mind, here's an interesting idea for a useful technology: Have "Target Linking" that allows several ships to make Overkill calculations as a group.

[Phoenix-D]

Its adjustable, but the problem is the targetting AI sees "ok, only one target in range, might as well shoot everything".

The damage percent is also adjustable in the strategies.

[tmcc]

The decision to shoot everything is bad from both a tactical decision making point of view as well from the perspective of ordnance usage, which can become an issue. Hopefully the AI's behavior in this regard can be modded.