Frequently Asked Questions for Newbies

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by PvK:
I sometimes switch to 1600x1200 just for the large battle replays, since tactical combat mode does use it, and even then, you can't see everything at once.

PvK

Otherwise max 1024x768 .

[tesco samoa]

woohoo.... made it to the faq

[Joe Cool]

How much damage do damaging wormholes do? If I pump up the armor on a ship, is it safe to go through?

Thanks!
Joe

[Slick]

Originally posted by Joe Cool:
How much damage do damaging wormholes do? If I pump up the armor on a ship, is it safe to go through?

Thanks!
Joe

The default damage for an unstable warp point in StellarAbilityTypes.txt is 200.

Yes, you have the idea. Shields don't help against warp point (or storm or mine) damage but armor does.

[edit: damaging storms also have default damage of 200 per StellarAbilityTypes.txt. Also note that this damage is applied to each ship that passes through the sector.]

Slick.

[ May 25, 2003, 21:07: Message edited by: Slick ]

[Slick]

updated.

[ May 30, 2003, 05:05: Message edited by: Slick ]

[Stone Mill]

Hey, I noticed you added the turn checklist (#18). I like it!

[Fyron]

IIRC, ramming drops the attacker's shields to 0

I recalled incorrectly, you know. Ramming does not affect the attacker's shields at all (unless a shield generator component gets destroyed, of course). A ship that rams (attacker, source) has it's shields remain at whatever level they were before the ram. All damage is done to it's hull, none to shielding. Its shields are not dropped to 0. The target ship, on the other hand, will have damage done to it's shields first before it takes any structural damage.