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Re: Late game minesweeper Wed, 06 May 2009 13:25 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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I copied this to a draft email a while ago. Thought it was from starsfaq dot com in section 6.3, but now that reference is missing.


Minefield Damage
"The numbers in parentheses (...) should be used if *any* of the ships in the fleet have ramscoop engines (this includes the enigma pulsar and the settlers delight engine)


For fleets with more than 5 ships:
Each ship takes 100 (125) damage per engine it has.


For small fleets, 5 ships or less - all of a single design:
The fleet takes 500 (600) * # engines per ship, this is shared equally by all ships in the fleet


For small fleets, 5 ships or less - with multiple designs in fleet:
The first design in the fleet menu (sorted by F4 design order), takes damage as for a single design fleet, but the 500 (600) is modified first by the number of missing/gained engines * 100 (125). The rest of the ships in the fleet take 100 (125) per engine. Missing engines are compared to the number of engines the fleet would have, had all the designs had the same number of engines:

Example: 2 nubians [3 engines each - first design] and 2 DNs [5 engines each] = 4 gained engines.
( 500(600) + (100(125) * 4 [gained engines]) = 900(1100) ) * 3 [engines on a nubian] = 2700(3300) / 2 [nubians] = 1350 (1650)dp damage per nubian).


Shields can absorb upto half of the damage inflicted my a minefield (like a torpedo), the rest is applied to armour. But ship designs cannot benefit from the shields of other designs within the fleet.


For heavy minefields substitute 2000 (2500) and 500 (600) into the equations"

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