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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0011029 | AI War 1 / Classic | Suggestion - Unit Abilities And Behaviors | Mar 30, 2013 7:14 am | Apr 5, 2013 11:19 am | |
| Reporter | jenya | Assigned To | |||
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 6.015 | ||||
| Summary | 0011029: why Lightning Turret has an artillery bonus of 4 | ||||
| Description | Hi, Why Lightning Turret has a bonus of 4 against artillery? Missile frigates are immune (as shown by reference tool), the only other artillery fleet ship that I know of is a Grenade Launcher. Looks like a very fringe bonus (against a single fleet ship). | ||||
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missile ships are not immune to lightning turrets. unless there is something crossed in the code because its similar to area effect attacks. the flak uses area effect damage and so only main targets are hit. the lightning actually strike 1 ship and up to 200 near it but as far as i know not thru the area effect code. in addition even if it uses the area effect code it would work like flak and the main shot would hit but the links would hit other things. correct me if i am wrong but, immunity to area effect attacks is not immunity to the ammo type but it is immunity to the side effects of the main shot. |
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Hi, In game reference tool shows (when comparing missile frigate versus turrets) that lightning turret does zero damage to frigate (opponent attacking hull type multiplier is zero). Meanwhile flak turret does non-zero damage (direct shot damage). |
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Yes, only those AOE attacks that have a "canister" can deal damage to AOE immune units if they directly target that unit. Units without any sort of "canister" (like warheads, electric shuttles, and lightning turrets), and just have their damage hitbox centered on the firing unit itself don't get this exception; they are fully unable to hit AOE immune stuff. |
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Lightning warheads targeted on a missile frigate do 0 damage to the missile frigate. I would think it'd be the same for lightning and flak turrets. |
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Probably a legacy thing. Lightning used to kill a frigate of equal level in 2-3 shots, the AOE immunity on Frigs was probably added for that reason. The multiplier was probably added during the conversion to hull types because of the bonuses the unit still had listed internally. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Mar 30, 2013 7:14 am | jenya | New Issue | |
| Mar 31, 2013 12:42 am | motai | Note Added: 0031431 | |
| Mar 31, 2013 6:49 am | jenya | Note Added: 0031432 | |
| Mar 31, 2013 8:32 pm | TechSY730 | Note Added: 0031435 | |
| Apr 1, 2013 2:33 am | Chthonic One | Note Added: 0031436 | |
| Apr 5, 2013 11:19 am | KDR_11k | Note Added: 0031464 |
