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1861 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes ago

Question about interpreting battle values. Information...

Question about interpreting battle values.

Information from Donovans indicates that having no primary enemy increases battle value by 5 (provided that a non numerical Fcode is set.

Question is: does having a primary enemy set for a mismatched enemy apply the no-primary-enemy battle value increase for that particular battle?

1861 days, 20 hours, 38 minutes ago

RE: Question about interpreting battle values. Information...

it seemingly does not matter which p.e. you have set in terms of battle value.. therefore you can't decide who in the battlegroup your ship will attack.. wish it was so, sometimes.

anyone correct me if i'm wrong

1861 days, 18 hours, 15 minutes ago

RE: Question about interpreting battle values. Information...

I believe the PE assigns a flat value. If it has anything other than None. If You hit an enemy battle group and they don't have kill orders or PE set for you. Your ship will only engage the ships of the PE set races if not on a KILL mission.

1861 days, 17 hours, 50 minutes ago

RE: Question about interpreting battle values. Information...

Hail,

Yep, setting PE to any enemy increases your battle value. This works particularly well for the Rebels to assign the order in which they wish their ships to fight without actually triggering combat so they keep the Left side carrier advantage.

For instance, suppose I am Rebel and fighting you as Colonies. I can come to one of your STARBASES with a Rush and an Iron Lady Frigate. I set my Iron Frigate to PE to one of my allies who I can't even fight or to a nonallied race that is no where nearby. I can land right on your SB and be immune to planet attack if you have no ships nearby to assist. I then RGA you to death. If you do have a Virgo nearby, you have to initiate combat because I don't have you as enemy. I can choose for my Iron Lady to fight first and scratch your shields simply by setting PE to an ally. I then get to fight you with the Rush from the left side as it has no pe/kill and should own you from the left side. This will even help against Biocides and Gorbies.

Cheers,

MEGA

1861 days, 17 hours, 37 minutes ago

RE: Question about interpreting battle values. Information...

Hail,

Edit button... Setting PE lowers your battle value. Lower battle value ships fight first

Cheers,

MEGA

1861 days, 17 hours, 3 minutes ago

RE: Question about interpreting battle values. Information...

Thanks Mega, that's all very good information. But I actually already knew all that.

Here is an illustration of the kind of scenario im asking about. If I have a non numeric friendly code, then my battle valued is 1015. If I set the primary enemy to the rebels, then my battle value drops to 1010. But what if I fight the colonies instead? Is my BV 1010 simply for having declared a primary enemy regardless of who i'm fighting, or is it 1015 for fighting colonies and 1010 for fighting rebels?

Im in a situation of fighting mixed fleets of different players, so I'm trying to figure out how intricately I can manipulate the battles.

1861 days, 17 hours, 0 minutes ago

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Thanks Genocidal, that was kind of how I figured it would have to work too. Ill proceed with that assumption.

1861 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes ago

RE: Question about interpreting battle values. Information...

Hi Aftercob,

Setting PE lowers your battle value to 1010 regardless of who the enemy is set to.

Cheers,

MEGA