More questions, part 2

[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.

[Pax]

Originally posted by The High Gryphin:
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

The ECM bonus from each type of source (Stealth armor, Scattering armor, ECM pod) will stack with the ECM bonus gained from other types of sources.

But not with the ECM bonus from other components of the same type.

So Stealth Armor + Stealth Armor gives you nothing extra as far as ECM goes. Ditto for mounting more than one Scattering Armor, or more than one ECM pod.

But yes, mounting all three, you do get the cumulative benefits -- once for each component type/name. Assuming all at level III, that's a {65% (ECM pod) + 15% (Stealth armor) + 15% (scattering armor) =} 95% defensive bonus.

However, 1 Stealth Armor IIIs, 10 Stealth Armor IIIs, or 1,000,000,000 Stealth Armor IIIs ... you still only get +15% ECM from the armor parts.

Which IMO is kinda cheap; the regeneration of Organic armor is fully stackable (the Deathstalker mod makes this even more of a problem IMO; when you can _miniaturise_ armor ... *shudder* Starbases with 60 miniaturised Organic Armor parts ... 1800hp/turn regeneration, eep!!).

The shield-replenishment of Crystalline armor also seems fully stackable.