Ship strategies

Undertakr · #1 September 19th, 2002, 07:32 PM

I thought you were joking about ramming ships, but I did some tests Last night and it's a rather interesting strategy. Essentially, 3 ramming BC's with about 30 small fighters in support can take out a very heavily shielded PPB dreadnaught with ease. 30 BC vs 10 dreads left me with about 15 BC's remaining.

Very interesting indeed, if not expensive.

Fyron · #2 September 19th, 2002, 07:38 PM

Take Organic. Build BCs that have the essentials, Solar Sails, ECM, and the rest Organic Armor III. Those can ram a few ships, regenerate, ram a few ships, regenerate, repeat.

Undertakr · #3 September 19th, 2002, 08:37 PM

My question with ramming is does your ship take equal damage to the damage you are dealing out?

capnq · #4 September 19th, 2002, 08:44 PM

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My question with ramming is does your ship take equal damage to the damage you are dealing out?

No. There are two entries in Settings.txt:

Ram Ship Source Modifier Percent := 60
Ram Ship Target Modifier Percent := 100

I haven't experimented with it enough to interpret how that's applied, though.

[ Edit ] A search turned up this old thread {link}, in which Suicide Junkie reported that the damage done is (remaining hit points*settings modifier)+warhead damage.

[ September 19, 2002, 19:54: Message edited by: capnq ]

Undertakr · #5 September 19th, 2002, 08:52 PM

Ok, so it seems like your ship takes 60% of the damage you can deal and the enemy takes 100% so if you have a 200 dmg warhead thats 200 dmg for them and only 120 for you. That's a pretty good tradeoff, especially if you up your defenses. The problem would be doing this against the relgious talisman, but if you could out number them due to your lower cost ships and lower maintenance costs, it's a good possibility, especially if you could catch them on warps so there's less distance for your rammers to travel before they hit.

capnq · #6 September 19th, 2002, 08:58 PM

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so if you have a 200 dmg warhead thats 200 dmg for them and only 120 for you.

No, the damage the other ship does is a function of its size; the size of your ship's warhead doesn't affect how much damage you take.

Undertakr · #7 September 19th, 2002, 09:01 PM

I don't understand, can you give me an example of what you mean?