Damage Question?/

Gandalph · #1 October 11th, 2003, 03:29 AM

Starfury measures everything in ls, as far as weapon damage goes, how much is an ls?
For example, my Tachyon Cannons do most damage at 10, so what is 10 in ls??

Mehrunes · #2 October 11th, 2003, 04:05 AM

The distance numbers listed above the damage amount are in ls (i.e. 10 is 10 ls).

[ October 11, 2003, 03:22: Message edited by: Mehrunes ]

Ed Kolis · #3 October 11th, 2003, 04:05 AM

ls are light seconds; it used to be km (kilometers) but we kept bugging Aaron to make it at least slightle realistic; I never bothered to check out the scale but at least it's not completely ridiculous (the moon is 50 km from the earth???

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ShakyJake · #4 October 11th, 2003, 09:33 AM

Since the speed of light is 300,000 km/sec, a single lightsecond would be 300,000 kilometers. Impressive, eh?

Gandalph · #5 October 12th, 2003, 04:59 AM

Experimentation suggests that my Tachyon cannons do most damage in combat at 70 ls distance. According to the popup windows, the tachyon cannon does most damage at 10 spaces. It does not compute!

Suicide Junkie · #6 October 12th, 2003, 05:05 AM

At level 1, those cannons do 25 damage at point blank, and then 5 damage less for every 10 ls away you are.
(Possibly scaled up by 2.5x)

Try firing at a stationary target with the exact same weapon component/slot from the two distances.