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[mosshadow]

You guys must be amazing players, Im pretty much screwed if I loose more than 2 crew in one battle on easy

[Sirus]

...THIS GAME CHEATS

Fired a level 3 Swarm missile at a slaver's helm. First missile misses. Second missile destroys it. Third missile...misses? HOW? The slaver's evasion should have been at zero after that second missile!

[Leafsnail]

The swarm missile has flak-style aiming (that is, they aim at three random points in the circle).  If a missile isn't pointed at a room it will always miss.

[Sirus]

Except all three dots were in the room. It was a 2x2 helm, which is larger than the Swarm Missile's aiming area.

[Urist Imiknorris]

In that case you probably only damaged the helm.

[Sirus]

It turned red. Red means destroyed last I checked.

[RedWarrior0]

I'm pretty sure normal flak has an adjusted (higher than normal) miss chance, so maybe swarm missiles do too?

[Sirus]

What, they can miss when the enemy ship has zero evasion? That's bullcrap.

[Rolan7]

The third missile must have already done it's attack roll before the second missile hit.  You know how sometimes if an enemy missile is on your screen, and you cloak (getting to 100%+ evasion), the missile hits anyway?  I'd hazard a guess that the attack roll is done about halfway between the projectile entering your screen, and hitting/passing the destination.

It makes a sort of sense.  I guess once a projectile is that close, the outcome is down to momentum rather than last-minute piloting or cloaking.

[RedWarrior0]

Well, it depends. If the enemy has shields up, I believe the attack roll is done where the shield is: You see either the miss or the missile pierces the shield. When the shield is down, the attack roll appears to be at the room the projectile is targeting.

[Rolan7]

Hm, that could be what was actually happening.  I mostly got that impression by trying to dodge the flagships tri-missiles at the last second, and having them hit my invisible hull.

[AVE]

What, they can miss when the enemy ship has zero evasion? That's bullcrap.

Even worse, they can miss zero evasion ship completely! Imagine my first reaction of missing flak2 shot (that should kill the enemy) when I knew that their shot would kill mine! Aaaand it missed too.

[Sirus]

I guess that makes sense *grumble grumble*
On the bright side, I have a nearly-maxed crew and I'm only in Sector 3. Plus I picked up a Charge Laser II. Now if I can just find those blasted Rock Homeworlds and find that portal...

[Mageziya]

Humanity has achieved their very stupid purpose in the Universe.

[Sirus]

Fuuuuuuuuuuck
Found the Rock Homeworlds. Constantly battle low fuel and nasty ships. Fail to find the special beacon.
Well, time to end this run.

Also the Pre-Ignitor is not very useful for charge weapons. It just gives the first level of charge, rather than a full charge like I was hoping for.