Proposed Damage System Overhaul

[Phoenix-D]

All Outer components, then the Inner components.

[Ed Kolis]

I *really* wish we could mod out the decks on ships... if I want to intentionally limit frigates to 4 inner hull components in a mod, I can't do that - I can do 3, or 6, but not 4, and if a player wants to put more than 1 or 2, he'd have to go to other decks, messing with the UI and requiring anyone viewing the design to poke through all the decks to find the components!

[Kana]

Phoenix-D said:
All Outer components, then the Inner components.

Duh, I'm not stupid...



I meant of all the components in the Outer layer, or all the components in Inner layer, which one will get damaged first? Or is it random?

[Suicide Junkie]

It is not random, it is based on the direction of the incoming weapons, as has been mentioned earlier in the thread.

[Kana]

Suicide Junkie said:
It is not random, it is based on the direction of the incoming weapons, as has been mentioned earlier in the thread.

Yes I'm aware of that too, yet there is no way you are going to tell me that direction alone is the only thing that determines what gets hit. Unless the game determines exactly where in a 360 degree arc where the shot came in, and each component is give one of those arcs, I count see how direction is the only requirement...

[Elsemeravin]

Kana said:
Unless the game determines exactly where in a 360 degree arc where the shot came in, and each component is give one of those arcs, I count see how direction is the only requirement...

It's pretty easy to make such calculation and to determine which component gets hit depending on the center of the component map.

[Suicide Junkie]

Think of it like a linear wave front coming in from wherever. Whatever it reaches first gets damaged first.

[Elsemeravin]

I'm wondering about damage without direction, like WP damage or system damage. Is it equally dealt on every section in that case, or equally dealt first in armor, then equally in Outer, and finally equally in Inner Hull ?