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December 1st, 2002, 04:06 PM
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Re: What are weapon mounts?
Weapon mount describes larger mounts for your weapons. At least in "plain" SEIV. Starting with Light cruisers you can click on weapon and see a "large mount". by clicking on this one gets a larger mount/weapon which does more damage over longer range. This applies to direct fire weapons only, not point defense (in plain SEIV anyways).
[ December 01, 2002, 14:12: Message edited by: pathfinder ]
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December 1st, 2002, 10:08 PM
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Re: What are weapon mounts?
When you design your ships, you see a "Weap Mount" button on the right. That allows you select the stronger size for available direct-fire weapons. Do notice the minimum size(tonnage) of the ships required for those mounts.
In the regular SEIV game, you'll never be able to Large/Heavy/Massive mount weapons on destroyers, no matter how much space you leave available. In addition, the increase in range applies only to Starbases of any size, not to ships or weapon platforms....again, in the basic game. I know nothing about most of the mods.
Watch out for those construction and maintenance costs as you raise your warships' firepower!!
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December 2nd, 2002, 01:36 AM
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Re: What are weapon mounts?
And to think I have spent these Last few months with weak ships.
I wondered why the weapons on the Last AI race were so much more
powerful then mine.
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December 2nd, 2002, 01:50 AM
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Re: What are weapon mounts?
Pathogen,
SEIV is loaded with things like that. You can play for months and months, and then suddenly someone will point out one new trick that can change your whole playing style... kinda cool
Oh, and the AI will always try to use the most potent mount for its ships; you need to know that to estimate how much damage you can have coming at you.
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December 2nd, 2002, 02:07 AM
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Re: What are weapon mounts?
Yep... see those little letters on the AI's weapons in the enemy designs view (and yours when you put mounted weapons on)? Those are abbreviations for the weapon mounts - L for Large (2x damage ships / 3x bases), H for Heavy (3x damage ships / 5x bases), and Massive (5x damage ships / 7x bases). (And the base and weapon platform Versions get range and to-hit bonuses, too - an ordinary Ripper Beam might not be a threat - just move faster than he does and he can't hit you - a Massive Base Mount Ripper Beam can shoot as far as all but the most advanced ship weapons and causes a WHOLE LOT of damage!!!)
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December 2nd, 2002, 03:01 AM
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Re: What are weapon mounts?
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Originally posted by CombatSquirrel:
Oh, and the AI will always try to use the most potent mount for its ships; you need to know that to estimate how much damage you can have coming at you.
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No, the AI uses the Last mount entry in CompEnhancements.txt that is available to the particular size of ship. In the standard game, they are arranged so that the stronger ones are at the end. But if you add a new mount after the Massive ship mount that is available to any ship size, all AI ships will use it, even if it reduces damage to 1% or something. 
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December 2nd, 2002, 03:35 AM
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Re: What are weapon mounts?
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No, the AI uses the Last mount entry in CompEnhancements.txt that is available to the particular size of ship. In the standard game, they are arranged so that the stronger ones are at the end. But if you add a new mount after the Massive ship mount that is available to any ship size, all AI ships will use it, even if it reduces damage to 1% or something.
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That is good to know!
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