facility questions

[jc173]

Just out of curiousity since someone mentioned the Last Star Fighter in another thread...

Does anyone know

1) How facility damage points are calculated?

2) Do different facilities have different hit points?

The reason I ask is the above movie kind of got me thinking, it might be kind of cool to have hardened military facilities. I know weapons platforms can be hardened sort of with armor and shields, and you could always add a planetary shield generator. But I thought it might interesting to simulate things like underground command centers, bases in mountains, underground fighter bases/launch silos etc.

[Aussie Gamer]

Was unable to see anything in the file about damage levels.

Great ideas though e-mail MM with the ideas.

[Will]

I'm pretty sure it works on a percentage level. If you destroy 10% of a planet's hit points, 10% of facilities are destroyed. It explains how I've had facilities destroyed while bombarding planets to kill the WeaponPlatforms... very annoying when that 10% happens to be a SY, Resupply Depot, ahd/or Space Port...

[Aussie Gamer]

I have notice that during tactical combat you don't damage any buildings until the weapons platforms are destroyed.
Is this correct????

[jc173]

It's probably something like that but I'm not sure it's based off the straight percentages. I've bLasted key facilities before trying to take enemy defenses like you, kind of sucks to accidentally bombard that Event Predictor instead of that pesky weapons plat. I just ran the simulator a couple of times to test out some stuff with troops and I pounded my simulated homeworld for 3k out of 9k points before dropping my troops and I hadn't destroyed a facility yet.

[Daynarr]

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Originally posted by Aussie Gamer:
I have notice that during tactical combat you don't damage any buildings until the weapons platforms are destroyed.
Is this correct????

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Correct. That also applies for all other unit types on planet. Only after all cargo is gone, population and facilities take damage.