Different kinds of questions

[Captain Kwok]

I'm such a dork . All this time I've been adding ECM to my weapons platforms. At least combat sensors are useful on them right?

[Q]

"7. Shields on a unit just add to hit points, but as testing has shown, the PPB does skip the shields on units."

Are you sure about this Baron?
I see in combat simulation that PPB of attacking ships or fighters do not skip the shields of the targeted fighters.

[Baron Munchausen]

Look at the post by Arkon earlier in this same thread. He claims to have tested it. You could ask him what Version he was using, but I think he knows how to tell what is happening by looking at the damage done by the given weapon and counting how many hits it takes to destroy the target.

And yes Kwok, combat sensors will at least help your WPs to hit the attacking ships.

[Asmala]

Originally posted by Arkcon:

I built 2 stacks of 10 sats at different planets. One set was just one shields 3, the other was just one phased shields 2. They both generate the same amount of points, 150.

The opponent ship has one large mount phased polaron beam 1, and one large mount antiproton beam 4. At point blank range, both do 60 points of damage.

At point blank range, tactical combat, select just one or the other weapon, the polaron beam knocks out one normal sat per hit. The antiproton beam needs 4 hits to knock out one normal sat. Both beams require 4 hits to knock out a phased sat.

Here's a question... the APB misses a couple of times during my test runs, the polaron beam never does. I don't recall the polaron beam having a to hit bonus. Could it be hard coded? Or could it be some artifact of the way the beam works? Or maybe because it has more range, it gets a better to hit bonus at point blank range?

Thanks for your effort Arkcon. Perhaps this information should be added to FAQ?

[Fyron]

Arkon, each shot is randomly determined whether it hits or not. Run a lot more tests, and the frequency of hits will eventually even out.

[Q]

Yes I can confirm Arkon's observation with sats: there it is a difference between normal and phased shield. The first are ignored by PPB. However with fighters this seems not to be the case according to my observations (Version 1.78). But I would appreciate someone doing the test with fighters to confirm.

[ January 25, 2003, 21:31: Message edited by: Q ]

[Slick]

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[ January 26, 2003, 02:41: Message edited by: Slick ]