Armor is better than warheads

E. Albright · #20 October 3rd, 2000, 01:08 AM

quote:
Originally posted by dmm:
No, wait! It's worse than that. I see that now ealbright is claiming that the rammer's shields don't help at all, so the result would be
A has 50 S, 50 DR (150 damage, all to DR)
B has 0 S, 100 DR (200 damage, 150 to S and 50 to DR)
which would also violate the principle of relativity -- somehow the physics of SEIV knows who is the rammer and who is the rammee.

The only ad hoc justification (all right, lame ad hocjustification) I could come up with for this was something along the lines of shields dampening impact, so you'd have to imagine the rammer dropping its shields to allow all of its momentum to impact onto the opposing ship (or its shields), w/o having something which would impact & then yield as it fell. Of course, even this is really stupid if you're using a shield-heavy rammer ("Drop the shields so we'll impact at 150kt instead of at 290!" "Aye, aye, Cap'n!").

All right, I'll recant. It's a bug. It's too bloody goofy having a double standard about shields. But I'd really prefer them to not inflict damage... I get some odd satisfaction out of the possiblity of having both ships survive impacts...