Armor, Shields and Damage (FAQ)

[Suicide Junkie]

LoL. It is true that the stealth armor won't have much effect on a platform, but as a general unit ability, it could have a great effect (eg. fighters).
It's just the fun in discovering how stuff works.

[ 17 December 2001: Message edited by: suicide_junkie ]

[CW]

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Originally posted by [K126]Mephisto:
Every to hit bonus plus is welcome for a weapon platform but why go for a to hit bonus defense? A planet is nearly always hit and so is the weapon platform on it.

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Just nearly? I can't recall seeing my ships missing a planet. In any case, any gunners who shoot at a planet and miss deserved to be court-martialled and shot!

[LGM]

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Originally posted by CW:


Just nearly? I can't recall seeing my ships missing a planet. In any case, any gunners who shoot at a planet and miss deserved to be court-martialled and shot!

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They may always hit the planet, but it should be difficult to hit something in particular such as a Weapon Platform or a Troop which would be smaller than a Light Cruiser. Hitting population on a domed world should be easier than an undomed world. You also have to allow for possible refraction throwing off the accruacy beam weapons as they pass through different layers of an atmosphere. Gas Giants should get a defense modifier bigger than the other types. No atmostphere planets would get the least modifier.

[capnq]

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Just nearly? I can't recall seeing my ships missing a planet.

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It really is 99%. I've seen a ship miss a planet with a DUC at range 1, twice in the same battle. That's the only time I've seen it happen in the year or so since I bought SE IV.

[Wardad]

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And in the sixish months since my previous post, I've seen planets missed at least half a dozen more times.

[dumbluck]

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