Beams v Missiles - Page 2

Fyron · #1 February 2nd, 2005, 04:04 PM

I do not believe any beam weapons can target missiles other than PDC...

Caduceus · #2 February 2nd, 2005, 04:08 PM

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geoschmo said:
We ended up with two threads with the same name, and there are some possibly helpful comments in the other one.

Geo you linked to the same thread!! Are you trying to confuse me?!?

geoschmo · #3 February 2nd, 2005, 04:18 PM

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wildcard06 said:

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geoschmo said:
We ended up with two threads with the same name, and there are some possibly helpful comments in the other one.

Geo you linked to the same thread!! Are you trying to confuse me?!?

No I didn't. I linked to the other thread with the same name as this one. That's the point.

Suicide Junkie · #4 February 2nd, 2005, 04:28 PM

We could always change the title of this thread to "Beams vs Missiles II" to clear things up...

Strategia_In_Ultima · #5 February 7th, 2005, 11:47 AM

In Capship PDC's can only take out missiles, so that's pretty balanced (combined with another weapon capable of taking out all but seekers) and I've also created two new missiles... one with 70kT damage resistance, and one with 100kT. Makes missiles useful later on - heavy weapons with extremely long ranges which need at the very least two PDC shots to be destroyed. And that for a 50kT weapon!

Yef · #6 February 7th, 2005, 12:46 PM

My solution, using Proportions, was shorter range for PDCs (3 combat grid, same than fighter's weapons), only PDC can fire on fighters (so the AI don't waste shots on fighters and actually destroy my fleets), and straight flight for missiles, so they can be shot upon by PDCs only once in their flight path.
It works pretty cool.
Maybe too well.
There is no way to conquer a Homeworld, which ussually has 1000 plus WP, without having a large number of frigates for the sole porpouse of provinding missile defense, and a humongous missile fleet to overwhelm the planet's PDCs.

In other words, the cost of war have skyrocketed.