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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
- Subject: Re: This has gone too far.....
- Message-ID: <03aD03Hzc6Oo00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:23:11 GMT
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- In article <gfBy7V200VB4M5DF0g@andrew.cmu.edu> el0g+@andrew.cmu.edu (Erik Lauer) writes:
- [...]
- >> Unless you started off low in fuel, you aren't going to run out
- >>of fuel. And if you do run out, the guy is doing warp 1, and you just
- >>have to wait for enough fuel regen to fire a torp.
-
- >Perhaps the cloaker is an AS. If you start off around 4000 fuel, and
- >phaser around 30 points I don't think you will get it down to warp 1.
- >Of course you probably can get some help, but without any I don't think
- >your scout will succeed.
-
- An AS took a fuel planet under my SC last Friday. I was out of fuel, but
- orbiting the planet; the (undamaged) AS walked in and took it (it was an
- AGRI too). I just couldn't do enough damage fast enough to stop him. With
- the AS recovery rate, I'd have to put 9 torps into him with his shields down
- in the space of a few seconds to get the kill. His shields could absorb
- another 3.
-
- SC fuel recovery rate is 16 per 1/10th second * 8 for being on a fuel planet,
- so I was getting 128 units per 1/10th second. Torps cost 175, phasers cost
- 525, which means in theory I should've had enough for 7 torps per second.
- Beats me if I know what the deal was; best guess is I got lagged and couldn't
- get the full load of torps off.
-
- Without the fuel planet, that's 160 units per second, which is less than one
- torp. I don't see one being an effective defender.
-
- >you have no help available, don't they usually uncloak anyway?
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >Erik
- >---=
-
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- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
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