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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0002196AI War 1 / ClassicBug - OtherJan 3, 2011 12:18 pm
ReporterSunshine Assigned Tokeith.lamothe  
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Product Version4.058 
Summary0002196: Neinzul Vulture damage is capped at x100 of base?
DescriptionFor the mouseover damage reading for Vultures damage seems to be capped at x100 of base (so 30,800 for mk1 vultures on normal/normal, rather than 308,000, so they max out on damage as soon as their target loses 10% of its hitpoints). It seems that that's how much damage they're actually doing as well.
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keith.lamothe

Dec 28, 2010 6:16 pm

administrator   ~0007170

Yep; it also has a minimum multiplier, iirc. Together they prevent either asymptotically bad or asymptotically good dps.

Sunshine

Dec 28, 2010 6:59 pm

reporter   ~0007171

No minimum multiplier, their minimum damage is as-is in the tooltip (damage x10), but the tooltip doesn't give a very good description of how they work in that case.

If exponents are possible in the damage calculation, things might be more interesting. You could get rid of the x10 multiplier in the damage calculation, and square the difference of (101-%current health) to give them both asymptotically bad and asymptotically good DPS depending on how the health of the enemy ship is doing (which would fit their tooltip more). Squaring might be a bit much, they'd be getting x2500 damage bonus against ships at 50% health, but that'll take some balance work.

Overall I really like the Neinzul ships, I've been messing around with them a lot lately and they're my current favorite ships. I would be extremely happy to see Neinzul ships show up in my ARSes. Weasels and Vultures do very well, but I think Commandos and Tigers could both use boosts and Nanoswarms need to be fixed (they're hilarious, but pretty useless right now).

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Dec 28, 2010 6:13 pm Sunshine New Issue
Dec 28, 2010 6:16 pm keith.lamothe Note Added: 0007170
Dec 28, 2010 6:59 pm Sunshine Note Added: 0007171
Jan 3, 2011 12:18 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status new => closed
Jan 3, 2011 12:18 pm Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To => keith.lamothe
Jan 3, 2011 12:18 pm Chris_McElligottPark Resolution open => no change required