Newbie mechanics questions.

[Conscript Gary]

The wiki has the formula for boarding losses as (20 - (Boarder speed / Target speed))d10%, requiring you to be twenty times as fast to guarantee safe delivery. The wiki could certainly be outdated. I'm sure there's a Steve post out there somewhere to clarify but I can't find it for the life of me right now.

[Konisforce]

This one:

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,1680.0.html

Is the big master thread but that's from a while back, now.  Not sure if there's been a change recently.

But I do know that it's not 10,000 km/s bonus, certainly.  I was doing some testing with a 14k km/s ship trying to board a freighter at about 2.5km/s, and I was losing over 60% every time.  With the formula from that, that'd mean I was losing 20-(14k/2.5k)xD10, so 20-5.6xD10, or 14.4% to 144% which "feels" about right.  Didn't do exhaustive testing, but I was losing over 50% quite often with the occasional total destruction.

I suppose that formula would also mean that a 10x speed bonus would give you a 10% to 100% range, so you'd have a basically 0 chance of NOBODY landing.  But still, I'd say that a 10x speed bonus is the bare minimum unless you have a lot of extra Marines around you don't much care about.

[Nightstar]

Stupid question: 20 d10s or 20 * (d10)? The clustering is pretty important.

[Conscript Gary]

20 d10s, and your speed ratio removes d10s from being rolled

[Nightstar]

Looks like combat boarding becomes feasible around 200k RP then. Interesting.