gotta remember that shield mitigation thing and that armor thing.

Try it again with ~150 health left on the LRM.

Some abilities do and some don't. Would have to look at the game files themselves but we can't do that currently. So I'd wait until its really close to death before you can be sure.

Just tried again. Hit a neutral Kodiak with the ability while it was at about 175 hull and no shields. Had the corsev, 5 cobolts and 4 rebel frigates blasting it. The dot was still showing on the the card when it blew up, and I still didn't capture it. Just to play I safe, I had neither of the other abilites learned. The other thing I noticed is that while the DoT is showing in the stats window for the enemy, Boarded is not. I cannot remember if it has previously, so this doesn't help me.

boarding parties should ignore armor and shield mitigation because they are inside the ship.  I don't know if that's how it actually works.  i suppose the bulkheads could have internal armor and shields but that's not really what we're thinking of.

I'm so far having every ship die when trying to capture it--I managed to get a Kodiak and that was it.  I've disabled autofire, for the guns and autocast for the ability then sent a single Corsev in and still had the ships die.

I'll post back after a really careful try here.

that might make it more likely to capture target ships instead of just damaging them.  depending on how fast shields are regenerating, shield strength below a very low number might be acceptable.

haha, good old tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee. (Yes thats those two mecha's names, enjoy a good chuckle).

I admit a part of me would love to attempt an andromeda mod for sins. They've got just enough ships t go around if you do pre-fall commonwealth as the sole race. Toyugh they would need some serious nearfing, being able to hurl 400 gigatons a minute, continous fire of missiles across the width of a star system, or obliterate an entire star and it's planets with one shot would be wa too powerful. As for the worldship, well, having an enemy unit you could use as a map might be funny, but it would also be insanely OP. Ultimate pirate upgrade though, galaxy killers FTW.

Ok, time to wonder off chuckling at the insanity .

Well, the idea was that in place of nerf boarding like it have happen now, keep it like it was in reb 0.60 ... but maybe add a cap/titan research who allow to somehow partialy repulse boarding party... not something related to hull or shield...

Was already attempt long time ago... i have maybe model 10 or more ship for the mod... but the Team leader have not make his job and the mod have die... as the Nova bomb, make them a ability using AM and antimatter can only be refiled at special station... for the magog worldship, Rebellion will be perfect, with one of the Vasari titan who can be used as homeworld and able to "eat" resource from planet...

Pretty sure that once Rebellion is released, modders will adapt actual mod and certainly use the new possibility that rebellion offert... now, without source files or convert.exe, it is difficult to see what is possible or not...

Easy enough to equip a modified Novalith-type weapon to a ship.  Change things form affecting an entire system to affecting an entire planetary system and you aren't too bad.

In fact, you could have the Andromeda spawn a frigate with a short life--just long enough to reach another system--and have it self destruct and fire it's weapon on death--basically allowing you to make a one-jump missile weapon.

Another thing that seriously hoses the Corsev is that Boarding Party can't be used against others caps and titans, not even to deal damage like with buildings.  This makes the Corsev woefully useless in cap vs cap fights.