overlapping fleets?

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Strongest means one of two things (nothing to do with resource cost):
Has the most hit points
or
Can do the most damage (possibly with to hit chances factored in)

I believe it is the second one.

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G) We are allowed a selection of four of the above. What Algorithym does the computer use in selecting its target? For example, let’s say I select A, B, C, D in that order. Does it assign 40% to A, 30% to B, 20% to C and 10% to D with the enemy ship which has the greatest percentage is the selected target? Or is some other algorithym at work?

It goes in order. It finds all ships that meet A, then of those, what meets B? Then C, then D, and then random if there is more than one ship left to pick from.

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I don't think the Last paragraph is an accurate discription of the way it works either.

I have just finished a turn where a planet of mine was attacked. We have just started a war and my opponents ships were never engaged in a war with anybody.

MY Weapon Platform's strategy was Optimal Firing Range with the Targeting Priority Order being:
1) Has Weapons
2) Most Damaged
3) Strongest
4) Nearest

The Weapon Platforms choose a ship which was 7 combat sectors away. Yet there was an identical ship only 6 sectors away.

So, something else must be operating here.

EDIT: A bunch of ships would meet criteria 1), all 2), some 3) and a couple 4)

RE-EDIT: I should mention that the range of the WP's was 8 and as it's first target, it did select a stronger ship (one of it's weapons was a higher level, but otherwise identical to the second target attacked) at range 8. The second target was as discribed above.

[ July 20, 2003, 02:19: Message edited by: tbontob ]