Randomizing torpedo damage

weasel · 10-03-06, 05:18 PM

I did some playing around with your idea of variable detonation range and tried to apply it to missiles. Apparently the key file here seems to be the terminal_home file.
I put the DetRng code right at the beginning and so far it seems to work.

Script looks as follows:

Code:

var DetRng
IF INIT THEN {
 DetRng = rnd 100
 } ENDIF
 
IF ( TgtRng < DetRng ) THEN {
    Detonate
   } ENDIF
IF NOT INIT THEN {
 ; Home
 SETPRIORITY 252
 SETPERSIST 0 ; don't time out
 TERMINALHOME
} ELSE {
 DEBUGOUT OwnName
 DEBUGOUT " Acquired "
 DEBUGOUT TargetName
} ENDIF

I set up a test scenario with OHPs as targets. Set Harpoon damage to 442 and OHP armor to 450.
Test run with 20 Harpoons each fired at 1 OHP:

- 2x 100% destroyed
- 10x 98% damage
- 8x ranging from 43%-69% damage

It's intersting that the missiles managed to sink the ship 2 times, even though the damage value was less than the ship's armor (?).
I also did a quick test with some CV-targets and as far as I've seen the script suffers from the same 'bug' as your torpedo script, when hitting large targets.

However, I think random damage is mostly useful to simluate damage on targets that could theoretically be killed by a single missile/torpedo and since big targets do require several missiles to kill them anyway, I consider this not a major issue.

10-03-06, 05:18 PM	#1
weasel Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 7 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	I did some playing around with your idea of variable detonation range and tried to apply it to missiles. Apparently the key file here seems to be the terminal_home file. I put the DetRng code right at the beginning and so far it seems to work. Script looks as follows: Code: var DetRng IF INIT THEN { DetRng = rnd 100 } ENDIF IF ( TgtRng < DetRng ) THEN { Detonate } ENDIF IF NOT INIT THEN { ; Home SETPRIORITY 252 SETPERSIST 0 ; don't time out TERMINALHOME } ELSE { DEBUGOUT OwnName DEBUGOUT " Acquired " DEBUGOUT TargetName } ENDIF I set up a test scenario with OHPs as targets. Set Harpoon damage to 442 and OHP armor to 450. Test run with 20 Harpoons each fired at 1 OHP: - 2x 100% destroyed - 10x 98% damage - 8x ranging from 43%-69% damage It's intersting that the missiles managed to sink the ship 2 times, even though the damage value was less than the ship's armor (?). I also did a quick test with some CV-targets and as far as I've seen the script suffers from the same 'bug' as your torpedo script, when hitting large targets. However, I think random damage is mostly useful to simluate damage on targets that could theoretically be killed by a single missile/torpedo and since big targets do require several missiles to kill them anyway, I consider this not a major issue. Last edited by weasel; 10-03-06 at 05:22 PM.