Posted by: Hawkeye
« on: February 19, 2010, 08:47:48 AM »Quote from: "WCG"
On the "Create Research Project" page, there's a Particle Torpedo research type, which sounds right, but the only options are warhead strength, range, and capacitor recharge rate. I don't understand what capacitors have to do with anything, and there's no indication of missile size there,... Actually, it doesn't sound like what other posts were talking about at all, unless it's just a matter of different versions or something.
Particle Torpedoes are a form of energy weapon that shoot a "bullet" of particles at the enemy. In contrast to lasers, they do a fixed amount of damage over their whole range. Therefore, they do more damage at long range than a laser of equal tech/size, but less a short range.
Quote from: "WCG"
Also, I was advised that "PDC refits seem to be broken at this time." Is that true? I hope not, because I'm not sure I understand the work-around I was given. But I haven't designed any kind of fire control yet, so I'm a ways from trying it out, anyway. Right now, I'm just trying to see what kind of missile I can design with my low level of technology.
Thanks,
Bill
Yeah, PDC refit is broken, you can refit them, but they will never get the new stats. To circumvent this, after you refit them, you go into SM mode and change the design on the F5 screen. After doing this, all PDCs will have the new stats (yes, you could do this without refitting them first, but that would be cheating, and we don´t want to do this, now do we? )