Armor, Shields and Damage (FAQ)

[Seawolf]

I wish I had that much free time on my hands.

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[Daynarr]

Great work!!!

[dmm]

MM has its work cut out for it, to fix all of this screwiness.

[WhiteHojo]

Nicely done!!!

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[Puke]

if every web site has not picked up a copy of this and posted it, they should. "This rocks.. no, YOU Rock!" (sorry, gratuitious movie reference.)

anyway, Z, this FAQ kicks major but, and we all appreciate you taking the time to figure it out and post it. by WE, i mean my whole PBEM group who i was generous enough to send this to instead of just abusing them with it.

[Zanthis]

Well, a lot of this could be fixed by having components take partial damage. Then you could eliminate the extra damage system and things would work like you'd expect.

However, that requires every component track damage it has taken, which might be annoying to program. So, you could stop adding extra damage to each weapon's damage. Instead, add the weapon's damage (after shields) to the extra damage and use that to destroy components. Reordering how things are done in this way would go a long way toward helping things out.

In fact, the only thing that would not fix is organic armor, using armor-skipping weapons to sneak normal damage past armor, and having phased and non-phased shields at the same time.

[Crab Legs]

<drool>

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