Damage type question

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by KnidVermicious:
If so, do weapons that target 'security stations' destroy 'boarding defense' components, and therefore can be used to destroy Crew Quarters?

No, crew quarters do not have the boarding defense ability. They do assist in boardign defenese, we know this from testing. But they do not have the actual ability listed in their component file entry. It's a hard coded invisible exception. If you give the crew quarters the boarding defense ability in the components.txt file though you should be able to destroy them with a weapon using the "Only Security Stations" ability.

Geoschmo

[ August 12, 2003, 18:43: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Suicide Junkie]

Also:
"Shields only" dosen't destroy shield generators - it saps shield points, but dosen't harm components at all.

"Shield Generators Only" does what you were thinking of.

If you add boarding defense to crew quarters, that defense ability will fully stack with the built in 4 points of defense. ("16 troops" worth)

[KnidVermicious]

If you make the ability "0" can you just use it as a marker so those weapons will hit it?

[Suicide Junkie]

That does work for shields, so probably.
Be sure to test it before you distribute a mod using it.

[Loser]

You want it to specifically take hits when the crew defense stuff take hits? Yeah that'll work.

[edit: I think he's talking about putting Boarding Defense on Crew Quarters.]

[ August 12, 2003, 20:27: Message edited by: Loser ]

[Fyron]

That works for some damage types, yes. Shields Only and similar ones (not specific component types, just changes to how the hit is affected by shields, like skips shields, 4x to shields, etc) will not be affected, as they work against the shield points, not components.

[KnidVermicious]

My idea is some kind of Deathwand device that only kills crews. I'm hoping that if I add a "0" Boarding Defense ability to Crew Quarters and Bridge than it will destroy the "crew" parts of the ship. It will also have the bonus of killing Security Stations.