Problems with ramming

mottlee · #1 October 9th, 2002, 01:56 AM

I have not tried what you are tring, however when I had a boarding ship with lot-O-armor I was still dead or so badly damaged might as well have been. as to run away it makes no sence to me

geoschmo · #2 October 8th, 2002, 02:32 PM

Pablo, for me it works to give the ship the startegy to capture enemy ships: Primary startegy to board, secondary strategy to ram. If the enemey ship has no SDD and does have shields, and my ship has only organic armor and shield depleters it will attack, fire the sield depleters until the shields are gone, board the enemy ship, and then it will find another enemy ship and attempt to ram until the battle is over.

If the enemy ship has SDD though this strategy is suicide as my ship will simply hang out not doing anything, will not even attempt to do it's secondary strategy and ram. It also will not work if the enemy has shields and my ship has no shield depleters. In this case my ship again will do nothing, not even ettepmt to ram, until the enemy comes for me and destoys me.

Are you on 1.78? If not that is why you are having trouble getting boarding to work with shield depleters. There was a bug but it was fixed.

Geoschmo

Pablo · #3 October 8th, 2002, 04:03 PM

geo, I tested in v1.49 which as you said was bugged. Then I tested it in v1.78 + DNM v1.70 and it also failed to board/ram. I'm gonna test it with pure SEIV Gold v1.78 later today.

geoschmo · #4 October 8th, 2002, 04:30 PM

Pablo, Hmm, not sure what the issue is for you in 1.78. It works fine for me.

You said you do have the ship strategy set to "Capture Enemy Ships" right? And in the Capture Enemy Ship strategy the primary strat is board and you change the secondary to ram? Is that precisely what you are doing?

Geoschmo

[ October 08, 2002, 15:30: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Pablo · #5 October 8th, 2002, 04:35 PM

geo, that's exactly what I'm doing. Primary - capture, secondary - ram. Scenario: ram till the shields go down and switch to the first strategy.

Pablo · #6 October 8th, 2002, 04:58 PM

now the working hours are over and I'll do some more testing when I get home. Maybe I'll come up with what's causing the problem with the help of beer

Read you 2morrow

geoschmo · #7 October 8th, 2002, 05:43 PM

Oh, no it won't work that way. I thought you were using shield depleters. A ship with boarding as a strategy will attempt to drop the shields of an enemy ship using weapons, shields depleters or standard weapons. But it will not do so by ramming. You have to have a weapon to get the shields, the ship will then board, and after the boarding parties are used up it will switch to it's secondary stratgy and ram other enemy ships.