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1667 days, 8 hours, 43 minutes ago

sancho

Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm...

Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm based on its base (empty) ship mass, or its current (laden) ship mass?

1667 days, 8 hours, 36 minutes ago

challengespaceyard

RE: Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm...

Damage is calculated based on the total mass of the ship at the end of the PREVIOUS turn.

If a starship finished the previous turn with 300kT, then that mass gets used in the calculation, even if you change it by adjusting the cargo.

1667 days, 5 hours, 15 minutes ago

singularity

RE: Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm...

http://www.phost.de/~stefan/ion.html

Best documentation on ion storms.

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Singularity

1667 days, 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

RE: Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm...

@Sancho,

> Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm based on its base (empty) ship mass, or its current (laden) ship mass?

Current (at the beginning of the turn - same as at the end of previous turn). This is in the current Planets.nu documentation.

http://planets.nu/#/howtoplay/ion-storms

@Singularity,

I just read that link. Good information. Most of the non-technical information was already in the Planets.nu documentation. The rest is planned on being in the local documentation (added to our "To Do" list), but there are other, more important, tasks on the list right now.

1667 days, 2 hours, 33 minutes ago

RE: Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm...

Hail,

I was bit by the prior turn thing once. Also, mass is:

"Sum of hull + engines + weapons + cargo + fuel, before this turn's cargo transfers. "

Note that engines don't actually have mass in this game

Cheers,

MEGA

1667 days, 1 hours, 21 minutes ago

RE: Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm...

@Megalomaniac,

> Also, mass is: ...

Thank you. Documentation corrected.

> Note that engines don't actually have mass in this game

Actually, they DO have mass. For simplicity in hull design and component storage, engines all have the same standard size, mounting and mass. The mass is considered to be part of the hull.

1667 days, 0 hours, 50 minutes ago

RE: Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm...

Hail Whisperer,

Well, I would have to respectfully disagree on engine mass because as a default on Nu, there is no engine shield bonus which adds a mass bonus for the higher tech engines.Indeed, even that mass bonus is based on tech of the engines rather then number of engines so a warp Probe gets the same 300 mass bonus that a 10 engine warp 9 Merlin would get. That mass bonus reflects engine tech rather then mass of an individual engine and is turned off by default anyway

I have at least 30 probes in my current game and the only difference in mass is in the cargo and beams. They have no tubes and engines have no mass (zero'd out in Tanascuis toolkit and left blank on Eden Tan's Infolist (http://www.donovansvgap.com/info/infolist32.htm#2.3)

A b200 hull weighs the same whether it has warp 1 engines or warp 9 engines. Only the cargo and beams change their mass. A hull does not get heavier with higher tech engines (not intuitive, but thats the way the game is programmed).

Cheers,

MEGA

1667 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes ago

RE: Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm...

@Megalomaniac,

> I would have to respectfully disagree on engine mass
> A b200 hull weighs the same whether it has warp 1 engines or warp 9 engines.

Right, as I previously wrote:

> engines all have the same standard size, mounting and mass

Is there something about "same standard mass" that didn't come through?

> there is no engine shield bonus which adds a mass bonus for the higher tech engines

I don't believe that's an actual increase in mass. It's an bonus to combat mass, similar to the Fed Crew Bonus. It has no effect except when the ship is involved in combat.

1665 days, 22 hours, 52 minutes ago

RE: Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm...

Experience still affects a ships ability to handle Ion Storms here on Mu?

1665 days, 22 hours, 38 minutes ago

RE: Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm...

PHost Ion Storms are slightly different than THost I've read but not sure what the differences are... I think I found one though;

Does an Ion Storm hide all minefields of which it covers there center-points, or only ones that it has a larger radius than as well!?

1665 days, 22 hours, 14 minutes ago

challengespaceyard

RE: Is the damage suffered by a ship in a dangerous ion storm...

PHost storms do not affect the waypoints of ships they drag. Thus, if you wanted a ship to stay still while it was being dragged, you must set that ship's warp setting to zero. Otherwise, it will attempt to return to its original position