Capital Ship Missile Bug

[Seawolf]

Tomgs,

Missiles do miss!

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[Tomgs]

I have used missles extensively and have never seen them miss a target that stayed in range. Have you? Even with a 1% chance to hit they always hit except when the target either moves out of their range or the missles are destroyed by point defence. Sometimes it looks as though the missles have missed when the target has moved to the extreme range of the missles and the missles hit for 0 damage is that what you mean? If so watch that very closely and count the distance the missles have traveled from where they were fired and the place it hit and I am sure you will see the target was actually out of range at that time. It is easy to see that distance just see how many turns the missles move X the distance they move per turn and the distance of their Last move to the target.

[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 27 December 2000).]

[Sinapus]

I think the "percent to hit" part is really the calculation for direct fire weapons. For some reason, it treats the missile as a direct fire weapon in that little box.

Confusing, but I don't know if it's really worth it to remove it.

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