<t> Actually, your ships can be in the vicinity for any reason, not just because they'll finish off the carrier more quickly. Any craft, regardless of affiliation, that's near you increases the time taken to quantum away, and the carrier, as a large ship takes longer to quantum than a destroyer.<br ...

<t> Sensors and emissions have a very interesting interaction. For example, if you're having trouble targeting something, throttle back... it seems your drive is really quite noisy and reduces your sensor range...<br/>
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Exactly *how* it interacts with drive, shield, weapon use, EMCON ...

<t> Actually, the most effective way to take them out is with a destroyer :><br/>
First time I played I stuck to intercepts and so forth, having melted myself against the mines a few times and got to Lt. Commander.<br/>
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Then got myself into Gerrond, & it was actually hilarious how ...

<r> Don't recall seeing this here, so I thought I'd mention it, in case people are having issues with modding weapons - specifically low end beam lasers.<br/>
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In the damage calculations there appears to be an integer conversion, or at least some form of clamp... in that:<br/>
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For a ...

<t> Strangely enough there are people who get irritated by people who point at an issue and go "It dunt werk!", without any further information. Mad dumps like this arn't terribly helpful for many, but for those who can read them they can help a great deal.<br/>
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I'm not a support ...

<t> A/B - Afterburner. Makes you move quickly, but makes you terribly easy to track. So never use it when decoying missiles.<br/>
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AUTO button takes you to your next nav point. If you then don't fly through it, or skip to the next nav point, then AUTO will take you back to one you've ...

<r> While this is about some self-def'ed weaponry, I still believe this is a bug.<br/>
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I've defined some dual beam laser turrets. If I take a fighter and assault the Destroyer I've equipped with these things, they are, to be frank, rather lethal even though I've tweaked the spread_az and _el ...

<t> Bit late I know, but if you've got multiple muzzle lines, they will usually fire in sequence. If you don't want this, I seem to recall the term:<br/>
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syncro: true <br/>
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I *think* (I should test this) that the "refire_delay" parameter is applied per muzzle, but it ...

<t> I think the availiable choices for texture map formats&nbsp;has gone up in Starshatter 5. Magic2 seems to cope with reading them, though I admit that I really don't get texture mapping really - at least not using magic 2.<br/>
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For example, why, when I change the material's ...

<t> The Universe as portrayed in David Webber's Honor Harrington novels.<br/>
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Horatio Hornblower in space - I'm reliably informed you may find some of the plot unsurprising if you've read the Hornblower books (by C.S. Forester if you've not heard of him). However, they are good stories ...

<t> The thing is, as pretty much the only real thing a commander of a destroyer/cruiser can do when faced with an attacking wing of bombers is either take the damage or run. Given the damage to a single destroyer can be really quite significant they'll probably want to run. So even if the bombers ...

<r> The torps arn't launched from broadsides per se - there's generally alot of launcher tubes, and the missiles largely move under their own power before going "ballisitic" (ie. moving purely under the influence of gravity). From my recollection you don't tend to use torps much when you're close up ...

<t> Actually, no - from experience, we know that fighter missles have always been permitted to go through the PDB. Torps are what the PDB protects against, and they are really powerful should your PDB miss them or be disabled.<br/>
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This is why you have the lasers - so you can create a ...

<r> I also rather like the Honor Harrington universe and I've tried to set (the original) starshatter so that it will recreate the ships.<br/>
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There is however, one major issue. Fundamental to the Honorverse is the idea of the <B><s>[b]</s>broadside<e>[/b]</e></B> - that is to say you ...

<t> Well, frigates are pretty fragile, and to be honest I'm not sure about what they're actually supposed to do, and as such, why anyone bothers to build them. Pretty much the best thing to do when assault fighters turn up is to order your ships to quantum out. <br/>
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Even in a cruiser ...

<t> Turn off weapons and lower EMCON. Note the latter will mean you won't pick up stuff (probably until too late...) But weapons recharge fairly quickly and do suck a bit&nbsp;of juice.<br/>
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Interestingly I do recall always being able to use thrusters, even when completely out of gas ...

<t> well - 340G is one hell of an accelleration - bends the "realism" a touch when you have to come up with some explanation why your crew isn't laminated against the back wall... Also you may be hitting some internal accuracy limits too. Consider the following: Based on your volume, your basic ...

<r> Essentially, covergent evolution is probably the best answer - they both inherit a great deal from modern and nearly modern naval warfare with a healthy dose of SF/"Space Opera" fiction. From the point of view of gameplay, Starshatter is the only one that really allows you to <B><s>[b]</s>play<e ...

<t> What bugs me:<br/>
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No real capital ship formations. I *can* get my ships to follow me in the current starshatter, though it does involve a certain degree of tedious clickery.<br/>
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Frigates are too easy to mug - I think they should fit the current Navy role of the ...

<t> Quick answer to your questions:<br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The PDBs stopping firing may well be due to you&nbsp;manoevering your ship so their fire-arcs no-longer overlap with the incoming torps. I've had many a "Noooooo!" moment when a destroyer has exposed itself to ...