Posted by: ollobrains
« on: February 22, 2012, 07:03:04 PM »a modifiable EM signature perhaps just throwing some random thinking around on this
I believe what TheDeadlyShoe was pointing at, it that the game does not consider CIWS to have sensors for any other aspect than calculating the weight of the thing.
The sensor is an entirely implicit assumption that is just used to calculated the costs of the system, but not used in battle (i.e you could not detect a sensor boy with CIWS, if you where right on top of it) - see point 4 in the first post of the thread you linked to. Specifically you can never actually spot anything with this implicit sensor, it just serves to justify that a CIWS system will always fire, regardless of the presence of an actual sensor. So if it is actually programmed as CIWS will always fire at incoming missiles, that could include missiles during the first 5 s.
Absolutely wrong. http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,1691.0.html
CIWS do not have conventional sensors, they never do regular sensor detection. they just allocate HS to sensors and automatically fire at errything.
It does not matter if the sensor is built in to a system or is an independent suite. Sensor detection follows movement and is before weapons fire. Point defense final fire can only engage missiles that have been detected. I used this exploit extensively with fighters before the active sensors were rewritten to change how resolution functioned.CIWS do not have conventional sensors, they never do regular sensor detection. they just allocate HS to sensors and automatically fire at errything.
CIWS has its own built in sensors and operates autonomously. IE - still works when you are in Sensor Delay. I ahven't tested it explicitly since I don't typically use CIWS, but I'm pretty sure it works that way from having shot missiles at assaulting NPCs.
CIWS does not function any better than any other system, it's at the mercy of the same exploit of the sequence of play.CIWS has its own built in sensors and operates autonomously. IE - still works when you are in Sensor Delay. I ahven't tested it explicitly since I don't typically use CIWS, but I'm pretty sure it works that way from having shot missiles at assaulting NPCs.
This translates to your beam point defense will NEVER fire on a missile during those 1st 5 seconds.I believe CIWS still works. One of its advantages in jump assaults.