test content
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc

engine types

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited March 2010 in The Academy
what's the difference between weapon types? like impulse, hyper, and combat?
i know the hyper is "efficent at high power levels" and the combat is "efficent at low power levels"
but what exactly does this "efficentcy" mean?
Post edited by Unknown User on

Comments

  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    It relates to the power setting for Engines.

    The combat engines will give a boost when at power levels below 50.

    So, if like most people, you cut power to your engines in favor of weapons and shields in combat, combat engines will perform faster than normal engines. You will get little or no bonus when putting power above 50 for those engines.

    Hyper engines get a bonus for power above 50, and will be able to cruise faster than other engines.

    Regular engines give no bonus to power levels or speed.

    That's how I understand at least.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    It relates to the power setting for Engines.

    The combat engines will give a boost when at power levels below 50.

    So, if like most people, you cut power to your engines in favor of weapons and shields in combat, combat engines will perform faster than normal engines. You will get little or no bonus when putting power above 50 for those engines.

    Hyper engines get a bonus for power above 50, and will be able to cruise faster than other engines.

    Regular engines give no bonus to power levels or speed.

    That's how I understand at least.

    oh so i get more energy in my combat engine when it's got low power, ok!. makes sense... i think =/... doesn't make me feel any faster though =/
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    oh so i get more energy in my combat engine when it's got low power, ok!. makes sense... i think =/... doesn't make me feel any faster though =/

    Yeah, the change in power levels are noticable, but noticing a change in actual speed is hard to detect.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Your impulse power is one of the factors in determining how easily you avoid taking damage (if it's high), and how hard you get hit (if it's low). Hyper-impulse engines apply larger bonuses/penalties when your power is above/below 50, respectively. Combat impulse engines apply smaller bonuses/penalties when your power is above/below 50, respectively.

    So if your engine power is normally below 50, use combat engines so your penalties are lower. If your engine power is normally above 50, use hyper-impulse engines so your bonuses are higher.

    Another recently discovered quirk is that larger ships (cruisers, carriers) go faster when equipping combat impulse engines, and the smaller ships (escorts, BoPs) go faster when equipping Hyper-impulse engines.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Axly wrote:
    Your impulse power is one of the factors in determining how easily you avoid taking damage (if it's high), and how hard you get hit (if it's low). Hyper-impulse engines apply larger bonuses/penalties when your power is above/below 50, respectively. Combat impulse engines apply smaller bonuses/penalties when your power is above/below 50, respectively.

    So if your engine power is normally below 50, use combat engines so your penalties are lower. If your engine power is normally above 50, use hyper-impulse engines so your bonuses are higher.

    Another recently discovered quirk is that larger ships (cruisers, carriers) go faster when equipping combat impulse engines, and the smaller ships (escorts, BoPs) go faster when equipping Hyper-impulse engines.

    but being in impulse mode lowers your sheilds >_> so wouldn't havking high engine output be bad thing in combat? and what type of penalty/bonus? =/
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Everything I learned was from here: http://theenginescannaetakeit.wordpress.com/articles-3/starship-mechanics/

    Bonus is up to 50% damage avoidance. The penalty is increased critical hit chance against you. With my tier-5 BoP with Hyper-Impulse engines, I've re-set my defensive power setting to 90 shields and ~65 engines (including console bonuses). That was enough to get me to the 50% defensive bonus soft-cap. The BoP really can't take much shield damage and I have low-regen shields equipped anyway, so this was a win for me.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Axly wrote:
    Everything I learned was from here: http://theenginescannaetakeit.wordpress.com/articles-3/starship-mechanics/

    Bonus is up to 50% damage avoidance. The penalty is increased critical hit chance against you. With my tier-5 BoP with Hyper-Impulse engines, I've re-set my defensive power setting to 90 shields and ~65 engines (including console bonuses). That was enough to get me to the 50% defensive bonus soft-cap. The BoP really can't take much shield damage and I have low-regen shields equipped anyway, so this was a win for me.

    that confuses me you had a negative engine ammount with a hyper engine and had a 50% defense bonus?
    also what's a BoP?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Combat engines also give you thrusters for when the engines are dissabled. It may help you quite abit.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    i want to add another question since we're on the topic.

    when you say ~
    Another recently discovered quirk is that larger ships (cruisers, carriers) go faster when equipping combat impulse engines, and the smaller ships (escorts, BoPs) go faster when equipping Hyper-impulse engines.

    faster, as in full impulse? or turning ship around for another round of fight?

    and since i'm an escort captain, i'd be get more bonus if i equip Hyper-impulse engine, at above 50 level?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    that confuses me you had a negative engine ammount with a hyper engine and had a 50% defense bonus?
    also what's a BoP?

    That's not a negative, it's a tilde... it's squiggly not a straight line. Tilde means "circa" or "approximately" when used with a single number or dates.

    BoP = Bird of Prey
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    droomagon wrote: »
    i want to add another question since we're on the topic.

    when you say ~


    faster, as in full impulse? or turning ship around for another round of fight?

    and since i'm an escort captain, i'd be get more bonus if i equip Hyper-impulse engine, at above 50 level?

    Faster as in at 50 engine power, with the same mark of engine, the combat engine is faster than the hyper engine for cruisers and science vessels, and vice versa for escorts.

    It's an observation that doesn't matter as much compared to what your expected engine power will be. At high engine power hyper will always be better, and at low engine power, combat will always be better. It's just that the exact power level of the break point is different for different ships.
Sign In or Register to comment.