Question about Allegince Subverters

[Loser]

What I meant to ask was if a weapon with the AS ability could be put on a fighter, would it work?

[Alneyan]

Indeed, you can mod an Allegiance Subverter as a fighter weapon.

[ July 16, 2004, 11:16: Message edited by: Alneyan ]

[Ed Kolis]

Remember that fighter weapons stack, though, so the percentage chance to subvert will be the the damage per subverter times the number of subverters per fighter times the number of fighters in your fighter stack. So a default sized stack of 5 fighters each equipped with 1 AS doing 1 damage would have a 5% chance to subvert, while a stack of 100 of the same type of fighters (say, launched from a planet) would be guaranteed to subvert (assuming the weapon actually hit).

edit: hmm, what else stacks that would be interesting to play around with? Seekers stack, so I guess you could put Crew ConVersion on a seeker, it MIGHT work... Satellite and WP weapons don't stack; with troops it's irrelevant because troops can't be converted... Drones don't stack, but a drone can have multiple warheads and I think those stack... either that or each applies separately, which gives diminishing returns with the probabilities (50% + 50% = 75% if they apply separately, 50% + 50% = 100% if they stack directly) ... Mines, hmm, that would be interesting, mines that steal your crew!

[ July 16, 2004, 18:22: Message edited by: Ed Kolis ]

[clark]

Can you mod the AS to be ineffective if the player has shields?

[Puke]

no, unless you give shield generators the master computer ability. but that brings on a whole bunch of other problems, not to mention the fact that you are still AS immune untill that component is killed, not just until your shields are down.

[clark]

Okay, work around time:

Can a boarding party be given a range?

[Paul1980au]

Interesint crew converting minefields - interesting.