Attention SEIV Modders and Know it All's- Request

Saber Cherry · #1 October 16th, 2003, 03:21 AM

Yeah, I think that makes sense. PD ships are nice, but perhaps a single one shouldn't be allowed to cover an entire 9x9 fleet...

The reasoning behind the PD accuracy bonus is suposed to be that they fire at very close range, when evasive manuevers are over and the missile has begun its final trajectory, after all

-Cherry

Grandpa Kim · #2 October 16th, 2003, 05:19 PM

From Fyron:

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If you drop their range to 1 or 2, then you greatly reduce the stacking effects

This also gets rid of the "2 shots at one stack" effect. With a range of 1 or 2 it will be rare for a stack to finish a turn close enough to allow a shot on two consecutive turns.

Erax · #3 October 16th, 2003, 05:22 PM

You can also mod the fighters to fire their own seekers (Andres has done this in the Star Wars mod and it works, oh how it works). We've talked about this in some other thread and came to the conclusion that this tactic can overload PDCs very quickly.

Ed Kolis · #4 October 16th, 2003, 05:35 PM

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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
The reasoning behind the PD accuracy bonus is suposed to be that they fire at very close range, when evasive manuevers are over and the missile has begun its final trajectory, after all

Huh, I always thought it was more of a shotgun effect - the gun fires a bunch of little projectiles and SOME of them are bound to hit!

Saber Cherry · #5 October 16th, 2003, 06:00 PM

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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Huh, I always thought it was more of a shotgun effect - the gun fires a bunch of little projectiles and SOME of them are bound to hit!

It depends, I suppose. That's not the way the U.S. Navy's PD cannons work, but then, I'm not sure if anyone knows whether they're the slightest bit effective