Strawberry Vanilla MOD

Fyron · #1 December 6th, 2003, 12:17 AM

Why thank you.

se5a · #2 December 10th, 2003, 09:11 AM

opinions!
do you think that PDC should be changed?
I will be changeing the fighters defencive bonuses with engines and afterburners. but I need to work it in with the PDC if I am going to change them aswell.

so,
are pdc to good at shooting down missiles?
if so how much so, and what do you think needs to be done to change it.

Fyron · #3 December 11th, 2003, 05:29 AM

I like the change of making 2 different PDC components, one that targets fighters and another that targets missiles, both at 20kT.

se5a · #4 December 11th, 2003, 08:11 AM

I thought about that when I saw it in adamant. interesting idea, but I think it would be changeing the flavour a little to much...

Fyron · #5 December 11th, 2003, 08:12 AM

Perhaps increase the damage resistance of missiles and decrease the to hit bonus of PDC then.

Oh, and I believe one of the first mods to do it was Devnull, which actually has the missile PDC combined with minesweeping.

[ December 11, 2003, 06:13: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

se5a · #6 December 14th, 2003, 02:33 AM

instead of changing the to hit with the pdc, I changed the defence bonus to the missiles, they are set at 40 as defult so I changed them to 55, seems silly to have them easyer to hit than drones...

PvK · #7 December 15th, 2003, 03:48 AM

Increasing the default to-hit mod sounds like a good idea to me, although keep in mind that as technology increases, ships increase their PD to-hit ability from +70 (PDC I with no combat sensors or training) to +175 (PDC with CS3 and full ship & fleet training). PDC range varies from 3 to 5, which does tend to give an additional -20 for high-tech ships using range-5 PDC.

Since there is only one level of seeker defense modifier available, and ship fire accuracy varies by 105% throughout the game (and by +/- 60 or so per race, potentially), there isn't any way to really keep PDC useful-yet-possible-to-miss-with throughout the game.

PvK