More questions, part 2

[Pax]

Originally posted by Silent Sorrow:
1. Can point defence cannons shoot down energy-based missiles/torpedoes?

AFAIK yes.

23. A massive shield depleter is showing up as doing only "1K" damage. Is that a misprint of some kind? Also the fire rate is showing as 30, as in thirty. That can't be right.

Yes, the weapon does "1K" damage -- as in, "1,000" damage.

And yes, the weapon has a reload/fire rate of 30 ... meaning, it will fire only once per combat --- make it count!

4. If stealth armour is described as "only one component per ship effective" does that mean there's no pint adding more than one of them? Same for the other armours or do they stack?

The "only one" is referring to the special abilities, otherwise 5 stealth armors would make the ship utterly, permanently immune to most scanners .... and provide more defensive % benefit than an ECM module.

Scattering armor, IIRC, similarly doesn't stack it's special abilities. Nor emissive armor, apparently.

Their hitpoints do, of course, stack.

Crystal and Organic armors' special abilities most certainly do stack. Unless their enemy is using armor-penetrating weapons (i.e. Shard Cannons), Organic Armor kicks posterior like nothign else (picture a dreadnaught with twenty Organic Armors and a few peashooters ... w/o armor-penetrating guns, you will never destroy it ... ever).

5. What is the difference between fleet and ship training? That is, is there any reason not to build fleet training facilities only and keep all ships in a fleet, even if it's a fleet of one?

Build both. They stack (that is to say, a 20% ship in a 20% fleet, has a net of 40% benefit ...!).

6. How does multiplex tracking work exactly? I watched some of my ships in action and it appeared that they didn't attack a second target after the first was destroyed even though they had weapons that had not fired yet.

Probably the other targets weren't in range, or the chance to hit was too low -- an issue of planning.

[oleg]

I am afraid that by "energy based missiles/torpedoes" Silent Sorrow means anti-matter and plasma torpedoes. In that case the answer is NO, they are direct fire weapons and are not affected by PDC.

There is a principal difference between Plasma missiles and Plasma torpedoes !

[Ed Kolis]

I didn't think there were plasma torpedoes in SE4... just plasma missiles...

[geoschmo]

There are Anti-Matter and Quantum Torpedos. Both are direct fire. There is no "Plasma Torpedo" per se. There are a couple of Organic Tech "Plasma" weapons, both are direct fire. There is also the Planetary Napalm which is described as Plasma. That is also Direct fire.

"Plasma Missles" are seekers and can be hit with PDC.

There is also a "Crystalline Torpedo" which is a seeker. That's the only Torpedo that is a seeker that I could find.

Geoschmo

[ July 09, 2002, 14:12: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Deathstalker]

"The "only one" is referring to the special abilities, otherwise 5 stealth armors would make the ship utterly, permanently immune to most scanners .... and provide more defensive % benefit than an ECM module.

Scattering armor, IIRC, similarly doesn't stack it's special abilities. Nor emissive armor, apparently."

Ah yes, but remember also, the defense bonus DOES stack, add the Stealth Armor, Scattering Armor and ECM together and you get one tough ship!

[Gryphin]

Posted by Deathstalker
“Ah yes, but remember also, the defense bonus DOES stack, add the Stealth Armor, Scattering Armor and ECM together and you get one tough ship!”

If I understand you,
1 Stealth Armor III + 1 Scattering Armor III + ECM III
Will give you greather ECM than
2 Stealt Armor III+ 1 ECM III
or
2 Scattering Armor III + ECM III

[Puke]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
There are Anti-Matter and Quantum Torpedos. Both are seekers

i think you meant to say that NEITHER are seekers.