Advice Needed, CompEn. file

Fyron · #1 October 7th, 2001, 03:23 AM

Didn't think about shield depleters. They are somewhat useful.

If the AI uses light mount DUCs and such, then it will be even easier to defeat them than it is now.

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It's not whether you win or lose that counts: it's how much pain you inflict along the way.

Suicide Junkie · #2 October 7th, 2001, 05:13 AM

Why not give the light mount an accuracy bonus? 5% to 10% should be enough to compensate for the range reduction.

Fyron · #3 October 7th, 2001, 05:53 AM

SJ, that's a good idea. That way, light mounts wouldn't be completely negative. I think a 10% bonus to accuracy would be best.

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It's not whether you win or lose that counts: it's how much pain you inflict along the way.

Suicide Junkie · #4 October 7th, 2001, 07:52 AM

Note also that when you give 'em the 10% accuracy bonus, the absolute minimum accuracy possible is 11%.

So if the enemy is using ECM 3, stealth tech, and has a great racial defesiveness trait, all on small ships

, you can load up on the light weapon mounts of WMGs, forget combat sensor research, and get a minimum 41% accuracy (no matter what).

Fyron · #5 October 7th, 2001, 08:35 AM

Really? I thought the game added all of the to hit modifiers at once. So the weapon's own modifier is added after everything else is calculated? Does that mean that if you gave a weapon an ability of -10% to hit chance, then the final modifier would end up at -9%?

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It's not whether you win or lose that counts: it's how much pain you inflict along the way.

Phoenix-D · #6 October 7th, 2001, 09:11 AM

No. It cannot go below 1%, at least that I've seen. And my TechMod rockets have -10%; the big guns occasionally have much more than that.

Phoenix-D

Suicide Junkie · #7 October 7th, 2001, 04:28 PM

I know for sure. I'd taken a -20% offense racial characteristic, along with religious for the talisman.
Since I had to fight enemies before I'd gotten the talisman, I went with P&N's torpedoes (+15% accuracy, maxtech +25% accuracy).

For most of the game, I had 16% accuracy no matter what, and used swarms of BioCrystal armored ships. Worked out pretty good, since I was maxed out on racial defensiveness, ECM tech, and was using smaller ships.