sure this has been asked a million times....

Atrocities · #1 November 1st, 2003, 02:36 AM

I have never noticed which is destroyed first. I always thought they were destoyed randomly or by some system that I am unaware of. But good question non the less.

Asmala · #2 November 1st, 2003, 10:58 AM

I can't remember who but someone made tests about this. The result was that weapon platforms tend to be destroyed from weakest to strongest. But when two platforms had almost the same amount of hitpoints (e.g. platforms differ only by one PDC) the stronger can be destroyed first.

From this I've thought that the weapon platforms are destroyed randomly to a certain extent. After every hit one weapon platform is picked randomly and if the accumulated damage is greater or equal than the picked platform it will be destroyed.

So if there's two platforms, 400 and 800 hps, and they are fired by a weapon which deals 50 damage per shot, it's highly unlikely that the 800 hp platform is selected 8 times in succession which means 400 hp platform is destroyed almost always first.

But as I said I haven't myself done these tests so I could've though incorrectly.

Mephisto · #3 November 1st, 2003, 10:59 AM

They are not destroyed randomly, PvK has it quite right.

oleg · #4 November 1st, 2003, 04:06 PM

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Originally posted by Mephisto:
They are not destroyed randomly, PvK has it quite right.

I don't think so. There was some rigourous testing done (sorry, don't remember by whom and in what thread it was posted

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The conclusion was units are destroyed randomly but it is skewed by the fact that lower hit point units have more chance to be destroyed first by simple roll of the dice and weighting against HP ratio. Well, at least that was my vague recollection of the debate

Sorry if I'm wrong.

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P.S. My post is almost the rewriting of Asmala' I did't read it first before posting.

[ November 01, 2003, 14:09: Message edited by: oleg ]

Asmala · #5 November 1st, 2003, 06:47 PM

Remember weapon platforms are always destroyed first. I don't know how the rest of the units are destroyed but frankly it doesn't interest me.

Mephisto · #6 November 1st, 2003, 07:19 PM

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Originally posted by oleg:
Well, at least that was my vague recollection of the debate Sorry if I'm wrong.

Mmm, I did quite a bit of testing myself on this and that was the result. Then again this was some time ago so it might have changed.

Fyron · #7 November 1st, 2003, 09:25 PM

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Originally posted by Asmala:
Remember weapon platforms are always destroyed first. I don't know how the rest of the units are destroyed but frankly it doesn't interest me.

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