Only strike craft (fighters and bombers) can currently be missed. The data for everything else is set to 100% (barring the enemy's use of counter measures). In the Sins Universe, technology has advanced sufficiently that hitting large massive objects with minimal manuoverabilty (i.e, frigates, cruisers and capitalships) is a virtual guarantee. Even today, the use of computers and our knowledge of Newtonian Mechanics makes targetting pretty much a non-issue and in space without environmental effects, this is even easier. Ultimately, if you want them to miss, the data is easily modfied in the gameplay.constants wihch can be opened with notepad.

yes i agree but maby have it like homeworld where if a ship say a frigate suddenly moves all the shots miss (not missles) like iv seen where the bad guys run away and my shots miss cos he turns in n arc just as i fire and they dont hit the target but thier shields and hull still take hits.

WTF do some of those areas mean? CAPITALABILITY? Anti-very-heavy?

Ron those are the weapon types.

Very light is probably flak, don't know what light is, but anything above medium is stuff likes beams, autocannons, and lasers. Don't know what missiles fall under. Capitalability is like "flak burst". Accuracy is determined between 0 (0%) and 1 (100%).

holy crap, you can make the bomer as strong as a dreadnaught. haha... i hope they have a comon sense of limits so to speak. i mean like we know that a fighter or bomber can't yield a greater weapons bay than a frigate so in a sense they only can be upgraded depending on what you can fit on that fighter.

Increased damage, I believe.

Edit: Range for the akkan, and damage for the cielo's.

I made a mod where the bombers fired nukes. Combine that with a carrier with 20 slots, and you get some very flashy battles.

Well I dont personally see why a ship getting hit would have reduced accuracy, unless the shots hit the bridge or power supply or some kind of computer terminal I dont think the guns would be effected. But then we would also need to add hardpoints, and thats already a no-no.

Yes, that is why computers would take over aiming the gun, I think the crew would be more apt at keeping the ship from falling appart then aiming. But this is a pointless arguement since we dont know whether it is peole or computers aiming the gun.

See this is where some good LORE could come in handy... ahem.

And as far as I have seen ships explode in this game, they dont fall appart. So I assume everyone dies together at once and not more realistically as holes get blown in the hull.

For what reason?

A computer would be able to decide which target is better, where the most vulnerable spot is most likely to be, and also be able to computer the movement of other ships and when to fire. Not to mention being able to function a lot better in high stress enviornments.

First, all of this is simply conjecture.. I dont want to start a flame war just an intelligent discussion of what could be based on today's knowledge as a starting point. I get my knowledge from two areas:
1) Knowledgeable of Modern military weapons and tactics (specifically US Navy)
2) Masters in Physics (with Thesis work on Modern/Future Naval Weapon systems)

But the concept of anything ever being an easy target solution is just not true. Modern weapons are never 100% especially a non guided kinetic weapon like their "gauss gun". Which by the way is not the route man is currently taking to achieve hyper-velocity munitions, they are using "light-gas guns" or Railguns. Both very different technologies from the gauss guns.

2) Modern radar guided projectiles you will not be guarenteed a hit on a manuevering target, unless it is something fat and slow (ie 1200ft Super tanker). Warships to include 1000ft carriers dont meet this because they are far from fat or slow. While it would be highly likely for a modern warship to successfully engage a large deck carrier (CVN/LHA/LHD) it is by no means 100%. Oh by the way you would be a dead destroyer/cruiser if you didn't begin the engagement in projectile range and had to close from some distance before firing.

3) The distances involved create huge issues for targeting and sensing. Especially, if there is any and I mean any form of distortion. It could be simple spacitial or Active/Passive countermeasures. Modern navies are the experts on Electronic Counter Measures(ECM) and Electronic Counter Counter-Measures(ECCM). ECM makes many weapons completely useless. Where ECCM is usually far less effective at countering the best ECM.

4) There is always issues associated with relativistic physics. When you start to approach .4c and beyond; newtonian physics goes bananas. I dont even want to imagine determining the equations of motion in relativistic space. Nor the computer that would have to be aboard the weapons that would be correcting.

4a) There are issues with inertia and countering that inertia once moving.

Like I said just trying to bring up real world issues with the lore. Doesn't make it impossible just somethings that can be used to flesh out the fiction. We will get there eventually. The next generation of US Navy ships will feature Rail guns and Free Electron Lasers. Who would of thought we would be using Buck Rogers shit so soon. Anyway, look forward to some flame back or feed back.

Lastly, the game rocks and I would like some more Electronic Warfare components to it but it works well. Especially when I get to see some new factions.

I suppose most of the accuracy issues in this game should revolve around strike craft.

afaik the game doesnt make a distinction between frigates and cruisers and capital ships for purposes of accuracy, though im pretty sure you can tweak the damage in another area.


What did you use for a graphic?