What actually determines when an engagement starts?
Apr 5, 2017 4:36:16 GMT
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Post by elukka on Apr 5, 2017 4:36:16 GMT
I thought it was as simple as this: When an enemy comes within the maximum set range of one of a ship's weapons, combat commences. It doesn't seem to work like this anymore, and the behavior looks inconsistent enough that I have no idea what is really happening. A lot of the time missiles in particular spawn right next to the enemy ship even if it has a weapon set to 1000 km range.
I'm trying to test my missiles and I can't really do that properly since my high speed kinetics tend to spawn 4 seconds from impact. Being able to control the range is pretty important for many other applications too. I think the ideal solution would be to just set combat range on a ship-by-ship basis, particularly so that missiles could enter combat based on their own needs, not that of the enemy. (it's kinda weird that a ship with short ranged weapons is essentially immune to high speed missiles) In the meanwhile, though, is there a way to deal with this?
I'm trying to test my missiles and I can't really do that properly since my high speed kinetics tend to spawn 4 seconds from impact. Being able to control the range is pretty important for many other applications too. I think the ideal solution would be to just set combat range on a ship-by-ship basis, particularly so that missiles could enter combat based on their own needs, not that of the enemy. (it's kinda weird that a ship with short ranged weapons is essentially immune to high speed missiles) In the meanwhile, though, is there a way to deal with this?
