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Gabor Törö wrote:
>Well, I have never got a real proove for using other SW than PLs. I
heard >things like tachyons could hit a soft spot from
>distance or the unprooved side effects of the SWs on the different
opponent's >ship systems.
For the DS there is usually no real reason to use any other SW than
PLs, unless the range is of the SW is over 900 (preferable without
using ord).
For ship designs with not such a high attack rating it can be
different. And then it matters whom you are fighting.
Of course a setup Stormer DS vs Bird DS needs special attention...
>In discussions about this subject my argument is:
>
>Calculate H: The costs of the hull + equippment but without SW
>Calculate S: The costs for the one used SW
>Calculate E: The mean effect (shield/armor drain & kill/blast as the
most >important ones) per tick of one SW at point blank with
>all given bonuses and maluses (Exotechs, Scav x2 bonus and so on)
>
>An extension to factor in a given range is possible. One then could
use a >"feeled" mean vcr distance to targets. But this is no
>easy thing, I think...
>
>Let N be the number of SW slots and calculate
>
>CE = E / ( H/N + S ) and call it "cash efficiency"
>The combination with the best cash efficiency is my favourite, which I
try and >examine at first. If you look at the formula you
>see expensive designs with a few slots could be candidates for using
other SWs >than PL.
Cute. And an argument that I would not use...
Especially not in your case as you do not even know which 'unproved'
special effects
some small weapons have - maybe you want to look at the small weapons
page in the online help files...
....and try again afterwards.
>Do you have a proove (with "proove" also a given setup for diplomat is
meant) >for a given situation where for example tachyons
>should be preferred?
No proove, but maybe a proof or maybe I can prove it.
And with the messed up vcr it is exceptionally funny to accept a given
diplomat setup (or general combat setup)
as a proof for such things.
> I suspect one have to search a long time to find good arguments for
using >other SWs then PLs.
Nope, did not take long. And then I did not search only recall.
> At least if
>one deals with small to medium sized ships.
>Maybe I'm blind.
Well I will not disagree with that statement...
> Maybe Nameless' Centaurs could enlight me, but I don't think so.
Well that are not MY Centaurs, if they were they would no longer have
the possibility to roast amorphs...
....but of course that does not mean that I could not enlighten you, but
the question would be:
Why should I?
And as a little hint in many cases I would only put pulsed laser on the
Cent ships, when fighting Cents with small weapons
I would use different ones. Of course weapons like the Streak Missles
(only Shah for Cents) and the Tachyon Guns are an option...
But I will stop here before I am going into unnecessary details...
>The money spent for a tachyon battery could be used to build some more
wings or >more small dirty cheep ships with flake cannons
>to improve a fighter screen for example.
What are cheep ships? Did you mean sheep ships or cheap ships.
I know you meant the former.
And I would rarely put flake cannons on a Cent ship which is not a
Shah.
....