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While Steve is apparently working on the refit costs section I thought Id bring up adding a time to refit section to that screen. Personally I usually don't particularly care about the cost to refit something, I mostly care about the time it'd take. Building a brand new ship can take a long time, especially if you dont have components built for it. Refitting something to get a ship with similar capabilities can be quicker than building a new ship. Unless it's not which I'd like to know. If some thing costs a lot to refit but takes less time than building the class from scratch I'd strongly consider doing the refit to save time. So it's a useful metric and having it shown on the screen would be awesome. Thanks!
I'm aware, but I'm expecting the difference in warhead count between 'maximize chances of killing a shipkiller' and 'maximize expected number of decoys stripped' will be significant.
Though it would get smaller as warhead tech improves.
I didn't notice anyone else mention this: For defensive units, infantry can fortify more deeply than vehicles can, so that may be a consideration in some situations.
Description of multiple warheads tech:
Missiles can split their warhead strength into multiple attacks for an extra 0.25 MSP per additional warhead
This disagrees with the pricing given in http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=13090.msg164435#msg164435 so it may be a outdated string.
Looking at decoy and AMM logic now, it seems like there's a (potentially micro-heavy) niche for 'duster' AMMs that throw the maximum possible number of warheads regardless of how weak they are. Fired as a first AMM wave against incoming missiles, these wouldn't have much chance of killing incoming ASMs, but would be very efficient at removing all their decoys since decoy removal doesn't depend on a damage check. Thus stripped the shipkillers should be comparatively easy for more-typical AMMs or point defense beam weapons to stop.
Each extra warhead costs 0.1 MSP of non-warhead space, which limits the practical number of warheads.
Good thing there's a minimum overhead of MSP size cost for each additional warhead then, I guess.I'm aware, but I'm expecting the difference in warhead count between 'maximize chances of killing a shipkiller' and 'maximize expected number of decoys stripped' will be significant.
