Weapons Power Drain

External Since: May 16, 2007 Posts: 89

Under the pre-reform system a single weapon's power bank (whose size
from my point of view was never clearly specified. We only had the
size of the ship power bank) was completedly drained after firing a
shot and you had to wait the number of ticks until it was reloaded.
Thus the three additional 'power boosts' at tick 25 (cloakers only),
310 and 4000 gave only 3 additional shots per weapon.

How does it work now?

Phaidros

External Since: Apr 26, 2007 Posts: 64

Previously, a weapon's Power Bank was simply to charge up to fully
charged, and then fire if there is a target within range. The
previous power dump would simply use stored excess energy to insta-
fill the weapons for an extra shot. This was really only useful for
Large weapons with a long recharge time and for Super Weapons.

At least the cloaker boost is still in the game, and possibly the
others as well.

In addition, you have a Power Boost mode. If you decide to risk using
it (potentially disabling, or destroying if already damaged), then
when the ships power bank is getting full (I believe it could happen
earlier, but it is much more likely with more energy present) it
switches from normal charging to insta-fill for as long as the power
bank lasts (large power bank and weapons with a low full charge, such
as a Super Star Cruiser with 500 MM Guns, would be optimal).

On Apr 24, 7:51 am, Phaidros <tiab....DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Under the pre-reform system a single weapon's power bank (whose size
> from my point of view was never clearly specified. We only had the
> size of the ship power bank) was completedly drained after firing a
> shot and you had to wait the number of ticks until it was reloaded.
> Thus the three additional 'power boosts' at tick 25 (cloakers only),
> 310 and 4000 gave only 3 additional shots per weapon.
>
> How does it work now?
>
> Phaidros