Longest game?

[Fyron]

Keep in mind that the defense and offense bonuses on your armors will stack with EVERYTHING. 50% is a huge bonus to add on top of ECM, stealth armor and scattering armor...

[Yef]

Do you mean that if I land 100 small troops, which have sensors with offenses +10, and in the same transport are 100 assault infantry, with offense +20, then ALL the units will have offense +30?
Or will the bonus of every single unit stack up to....+6000 .

It can't be like that, right?


So range doesn't work. Too bad, I was already thinking of several indirect fire support weapons for artillery units.

[ March 22, 2004, 16:55: Message edited by: Yef ]

[Fyron]

Well with troops, I believe that the best bonus that any single troop has in offense is applied to all your troops, and the same with defense. I was thinking more with ships, but even for troops 50% is a big bonus to add to what else you can have...

[Renegade 13]

So you're saying if I have a couple of troop weapons, with stats like this for damage at range:

20 / 10 / 5

25 / 5 / 0

The second example would make a better troop weapon right? Because you're saying that range and firing rate don't matter with troop weapons? Do I have this right, or am I confused again?

[ March 22, 2004, 23:14: Message edited by: Renegade 13 ]

[Slick]

Originally posted by Renegade 13:
So you're saying if I have a couple of troop weapons, with stats like this for damage at range:

20 / 10 / 5

25 / 5 / 0

The second example would make a better troop weapon right? Because you're saying that range and firing rate don't matter with troop weapons? Do I have this right, or am I confused again?

Right. Troop weapons are hard coded to always fire at range 1 and fire each turn regardless of what the description says.

Slick.

[Renegade 13]

Well that's good to know. Thanks.

[PvK]

Originally posted by Yef:
Do you mean that if I land 100 small troops, which have sensors with offenses +10, and in the same transport are 100 assault infantry, with offense +20, then ALL the units will have offense +30?
Or will the bonus of every single unit stack up to....+6000 .

It can't be like that, right?
...

It depends on where the bonuses are. IIRC there are three possible locations. Putting the bonus on the troop chassis itself DOES cause a stacking effect for that bonus only. See Proportions Elite Infantry for an example - each one present will add a +1 to-hit to the entire army.

Combat Offense bonuses don't stack but DO share - the highest one of any in the army will be used for the entire army. Proportions and unmodded combat sensors and ECM are examples of this.

To-hit bonuses on weapons neither stack nor share. By this I mean the to-hit bonus of the weapon's attack itself. I don't know of any unmodded (or modded) weapon that uses this except in Proportions mod - see the infantry weapons there for an example.

PvK