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Re: 3% or 3.5%

Wed, 10 September 2003 02:47

Robert

Lt. Junior Grade

Messages: 393
Registered: November 2002
Location: Dortmund, Germany

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This is not true, mine fields do not add the chances, they multiply.

I just sent 10 ships 29.00 ly at warp 6 through a speed trap field. 3 of them made it, including the first of the 10.

If mine fields added the chance per ly, it would have a 3.5% * 1 per ly, which would be a 101.5% chance of hitting a mine. If it is checked each ly it has a 64.4% of hitting a mine. Since it was able to go that far, it obviously isn't 101.5%...

3 making it is pretty much what you would expect, slightly unlucky, but not too unreasonable.

Other interesting things I found in this test:
You check for mines before you move each ly, so in this test there was one ship that didn't move becuase it hit a field immediatly.
One of the ships hit a mine at the same location as a world, the ship got killed in the battle.

- LEit

then it is again one jason cawley article run out of date.
i am sure he was right the time he wrote it, maybe this has been changed by some of the patches? and in times of chaff sweeping who cares anyway...

thanks for setting this right

robert

2b v !2b -> ?

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