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[Il Palazzo]

Private industry (and mining), OTOH, does benefit from robotization tech.

Turns out private industry doesn't actually benefit. Don't know about mining.
On the other hand, heavy (and high-tech too, most likely) industry is affected. Something I didn't quite internalize before.

[Karlito]

Yes, those also get the industry profile bonuses

[Il Palazzo]

SAMs. The manual listing AA types on page 360 shows them having a 'kill-X%' stat on top of the AA value. Higher for larger systems. What does this mean? Is that an automatic kill on a percentage of hits - ignoring normal rolls vs hitpoints?

[E. Albright]

My suspicion is that it's an "any-hit-kills" percentage, so you still get the roll vs. HP, but the result of the hit will automatically kill X% of the time. To the best of my understanding, the hit type determination will occur as normal (so kill/retreat/pin according to mechanisms the manual fails to explain) and then if it's not a kill, you roll against any such kill percentages to see if it converts to a kill.

[Il Palazzo]

How does that aircraft design linear tech work, exactly? Mainly, I'd like to know whether it only bumps structural design of new lines of models, or of new versions of existing models as well?

[E. Albright]

Tragically, structural design is only ever set when a new model line is created, and aircraft are no different. So if you want to benefit from the assorted linear aircraft design techs, you'll need to start from scratch with a totally new airframe.

On the plus side, you can get rather high design numbers, and can thus start with aircraft that are as good or better than well-refined models in other fields.

[EuchreJack]

Your refinements in monobody steel airframes don't help your wood & canvas biplanes, unfortunately.

[Karlito]

Where's my tank design linear research though?

[Il Palazzo]

More questions!

The manual says missile launchers can have up to 7 range. The launcher optimisation linear applies some non-obvious scaling to the base range of four.
The question is: what levels of the linear are needed for each range increase?

I've found some discussion on Steam forums suggesting the calculation involves halving the linear level and applying this as a percentage increase - but that can't be right, as the max missile range this way would be only 6.

How does this work?

[E. Albright]

Base range varies by missile type. E.g., Heavy Missiles with no bonus from Launcher Optimization have a range of 6, Mediums have 5, Lights have 4. Range 7 refers to what Plasma Missiles get.

Spoiler: Example from a rather advanced game (72% LO) (click to show/hide)

In the same game, my Heavy SAM has 5 with 82%. My suspicion based on that is that the bonus is ((LO/2)*Base), rounded down. That would also track with my Atomics in the current game having base of 4 + 0 for 46%.

[Il Palazzo]

Well, that'd track with what the poster on Steam said.
So it's actually possible to pull off a 10-range launcher, with plasma and at least 86% optimisation?

[E. Albright]

Should be, yeah. 86% won't come easy, but that should give you 10.

[Il Palazzo]

Since, in that game of ours, we're nearing a stage where robotic soldiers will likely come into play at some semi-near future, I should probably get a handle on how these fuckers work too.
Does this enable a model that can replace infantry, or - much like quad MGs and regular MGs - it merely occupies the same slot in a formation?
Or is that a completely separate mechanic of some sort?

[E. Albright]

It's a model that can occupy Infantry slots. You can't directly replace existing infantry troops with them. They're not gonna be a significant issue any time soon from my POV, though, b/c while they take 0 troops to field (and energy instead of food), every single one takes a High Tech item to build - and they're strictly worse than human infantry in every way but one. OTOH, if there's too much radiation in a combat theater, they do have a role since they're unfazed by it. I expect we'll see some, but not a lot unless we REALLY ratchet up the attrition.

[Il Palazzo]

What's a combined beam gun again?