Posted by: Garfunkel
« on: December 21, 2014, 07:11:34 PM »I put a single Particle Beam on my beamwarships so that they can deal at least some damage at long range and in chase situations.
My understanding of tracking speed for weapons is as follows:For a turret you are correct. For a barbette the fire control is always a limiter. In your example above the fire control would limit the tracking speed to 3000 km/s. To use the ship speed of 5000 km/s you would need a larger fire control, probably a x2 in this case with a tracking speed of 6000 km/s. The end result would be a weapon with a tracking speed of 5000 km/s as that is the lower of the two.
For a barbette mount the weapon tracking speed is the higher of: the fire control currently on the ship, or the speed of the ship. If you have a tracking speed on your fire control of 3000 km/s and the ship goes 5000 km/s the weapons tracking speed is 5000 km/s. A PDC has a fire control of 3000 km/s and a speed of 0 km/s then 3000 km/s is used.
For a turret mount the weapon tracking speed is the lower of: the turret rotation speed or the fire control currently on the ship. The Goalkeeper III DPPD turret has a rotation speed of 12000 km/s but the Snapshot fire control is rated for 8000 km/s so 8000 km/s is used.
Ok so ship speed does play a role, if my ships only go 3k and my fire control is 5k I will only target at 3 k because its the lower speed. what speed do you aim for in a ship like that then, I was thinking of trying to build a fleet around 6km/s but whats the accuracy rating around that speed. maybe ill save it for my destroyers which are my smaller combat oriented ships and aim for 8k witht hem, and use laser turrents for my larger cruisers and battleshipThat is not quite correct. On any ship/base the base tracking speed you have researched is the minimum speed that the weapon will use. If the ship is faster than this then having an improved tracking speed from your fire control will help. For example a ship goes 1500km/s, but my base tracking speed that I researched is 3000km/s. For a non turreted weapon the tracking speed that would be used is 3000km/s. If the ship moved at 5000km/s and you installed a normal x1 tracking speed fire control then the tracking speed would still be at 3000km/s. If however you had installed a x2 tracking speed fire control then the limiting speed would be the ship, or 5000km/s. This tracking speed minimum seems to be based on when the fire control was designed and will not change as you research better fire control speeds. You have to incorporate the research into new fire controls to see a difference.