Vectorian Mainframe Productions

[Krsqk]

Unless the anti-matter ships are so kind as to have an energy-to-matter conVersion field surround all of their ships.

[Lord Kodos]

So how can I can make the AM ships able to filter out Energy weapons from physical ones.

And YES an Anti-Matter Torp would hurt a AM ship as the torp has a matter casing

[Fyron]

So how can I can make the AM ships able to filter out Energy weapons from physical ones.

You can not do that directly.

An AM explosion would hurt an AM ship. I think you are not entirely sure of what anti-matter is, and are assigning a lot of qualities to it that it does not possess. Anti-matter is identical to matter in all macroscopic regards. It is only different on the nuclear scale, where some of the charges of the sub-atomic particles are reversed. This does not really cause much different behavior though.

Matter is no more devastating to anti-matter than anti-matter is to matter.

[ March 20, 2003, 04:19: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Phoenix-D]

"An AM explosion would hurt an AM ship."

An AM torp, sure, since it has a matter component too. But something like the anti-proton beam, which is just, well, anti-protons, wouldn't do much.

Phoenix-D

[Fyron]

It would have similar effects that a matter weapon has on a matter ship. It would not do much less damage.

[Lord Kodos]

Oooh okay lol thanks.

So...how would i go about making an Anti-Matter ship...can someone please explain this if not ill just abandon that idea lol

[Fyron]

You can't really accurately model anti-matter ships and matter ships in SE4. It does not have the complexity necessary to do so. You would have to make weapons do varying damage based on the target type, which you can not do. None of the various armor abilities would be very accurate either. And, using any of them would conflict with their use on "normal" components.

The problem is that a DUC should have major effects on an anti-matter ship (though not destroyed in one hit or anything), and relatively minor effect (what it has now) on a matter ship. APBs should be the opposite, lots of damage to matter ships, less to anti-matter ships. There is not really a good way to do this.