Sadness part 26 (Error report)

[Slick]

Originally posted by orev_saara:
Something is seriously wrong with the "quarter damage against shields" damage type. I'm not sure what it is, but it seems to actually repair ships it's firing on sometimes, with no shields involved anywhere. Am I misunderstanding what "quarter damage against shields" means, or is this a bug?

You wouldn't be firing against a ship with Crystalline armor, would you? That would repair shields.

Slick.

[orev_saara]

That sounds great Fyron, but the target had no shields. No armor even. Just a space yard, a bridge, crew quarters and life support. And the red damage bar definitely went up a couple of times as I was firing at it.

EDIT: Huh, just read your post Gandalph. Are you saying that an 80 point shot would do twenty points to the shields, and that's it? Makes no sense, but it might explain things. What would be the use of that?

[ February 18, 2003, 21:16: Message edited by: orev_saara ]

[orev_saara]

Hey, I got promoted! Let's party!!!!

[DavidG]

Originally posted by orev_saara:

EDIT: Huh, just read your post Gandalph. Are you saying that an 80 point shot would do twenty points to the shields, and that's it? Makes no sense, but it might explain things. What would be the use of that?

Sounds right to me based on IF's post too. At first I too though "what's the use of that" but I guess it would be used for a powerful weapon that just happens to suck at penetrating shields. I gather that essentialy with such a weapon the enemy would in effect have 4x normal shield strength.

[Fyron]

I was only expanding on Gandalph's post to show what happens when a shot hits both shields and non-shields.

Are you playing with gold patch 2 (1.78) or patch 3 (1.84)? In 1.78, those types of damage are broken and do not work correctly. This was fixed for 1.84.

What defenses does the target ship have?

[orev_saara]

And Fyron wins the prize! Time to upgrade.