hydra (class 2 ship) Manual technology description for hydra Attack/life: 10/3000 Manpower: 18 Researchtime: 3 d Buildingtime: 12 h e-ray-Technology Needed research: science recycle methods Battle details: fights (battle engine syntax: f) if this ship is hit it modifies AP/LP by 0/-1000 of itself in your own fleet in class 2 battlemessage: "shield decay ... ships" (battle engine syntax: trigger_hit@mod,self,1,2,itself,+,0,-1000,shield decay)   —> Forum Topic about this ship spacetrace: here some test battle-reports: you: 210 destroyers enemy: 20 fighter escorts 60 destroyers vs 20 fighter escorts 20 fighter escorts vs 20 destroyers you: 100 fighters enemy: 20 fighter escorts 80 fighters vs 20 fighter escorts 20 fighter escorts vs 20 fighters you: 100 eagles enemy: 20 fighter escorts 60 eagles vs 20 fighter escorts 20 fighter escorts vs 20 eagles Senor: Great work testing it out so quickly! I of course understand that the syntax has its limitations, but It would be best if the shield could take the same amount of hits from c3 also. My reasoning is that otherwise this ship will be quite difficult to grasp for someone who cant read the syntax. It behaves seemingly one way against c1,c2 and differently against c3 even though when you know the syntax its very logical. spacetrace: i guess it can be done with something like 1200 and trigger_hit@mod,muliplay,0.01 also: the battle engine has no limitations! in fact it is quasi turinge complete https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness In colloquial usage, the terms "Turing complete" or "Turing equivalent" are used to mean that any real-world general-purpose computer or computer language can approximately simulate the computational aspects of any other real-world general-purpose computer or computer language. spacetrace: can be done with lp=3000 trigger hit : 0/-1000 it is easier to understand your class 2 vs enemy class 3: you: 20 fighter escorts enemy: 22 cruisers 20 fighter escorts vs 2 cruisers 21 cruisers vs 7 fighter escorts your class 2 vs enemy class 2: V ^ you: 20 fighter escorts enemy: 210 destroyers 20 fighter escorts vs 20 destroyers 60 destroyers vs 20 fighter escorts your class 1 vs enemy class 2: V ^ you: 100 fighters enemy: 20 fighter escorts 60 fighters vs 20 fighter escorts 20 fighter escorts vs 20 fighters spacetrace: also this gives me an idea for another cool shield ship: if hit it will repair itself to full strenght - it will not be repaired if lp <=0 lp 10 - cannot be shot down by a fighter or eagle, but by a destroyer or cruiser Senor: if you can do it with subtraction then maybe the initial lp doesn't need to be so high? wouldn't 300 suffice? awesome idea on the self repairing ship. spacetrace: in this configuration 300 wouldn't be enough (the firepower of the cruiser would kill it faster than 3 shots then) i could program a new battlefunction, but it would be only for one ship ...so: no :) Senor: isn't there a way that you can make a ship immune to direct damage and in case of getting hit it only uses its own subtraction formula? spacetrace: it's deep in the main loop and i better dont want to touch it , but ... maybe ... yeah ;) ncaries: nice ship, i hope can someone explain to me how the hydra works because i dont get it :)2 spacetrace: here is the card: http://linux-zugang.z11.de/2015-11-29-200347_1366x768_scrot.png basicly it can take 3 hits - because it loses 1000LP for each time it gets hit.

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