New Beta Patch

[Q]

Will again thank you very much for this information.
I am very pleased to see that some of my suggestions to MM as the deletion of already used system names have been made and the fighter bug has been fixed.

[Magnum357]

Hey Suicide Junkie, long time, no see! Ya, I agree with you. I sure hope MM does add that feature. It would really help make the design process more important. Heck, with something like this, a lucky shot from an escort vessel could theoretically severly damage a Battleship if it was lucky.

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a lucky shot from an escort vessel could theoretically severly damage a Battleship if it was lucky
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[Baron Munchausen]

This thread reminds me of the one missing feature from SE combat -- variable damage! Every weapon does an absolutely fixed amount of damage. What about near misses? What about beam "contact" time with the target? Most weapons ought to have some slight variations in the amount of damage they do. Even 10-20 percent variation would make combat much less predictable. Think of MOO where a weapon does 3-12 instead of "10 10 10 10" out to whatever range.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 24 May 2001).]

[Suicide Junkie]

All that would really require is a second "damage at range" line in the components.txt, and some work on the damage lookup routine.

with "minimum damage at range"
and "maximum damage at range"
you could really make some interesting effects, AND emissive armor will block the occasional shot, when the dice turn up low!