Mixed Vorcha Offensive Value

posted on December 9th, 2009, 7:53 am

Hello!

  When I get REALLY bored I go sniffing through the weapon ordinance ODF's to get a whiff of nostalgia from modding A1.  I noticed that the Federation mix Vorcha has a base damage of:

damagebase = 43.151

While the normal Vorcha has:

damagebase = 36.374

  The mix-Vorcha gets the Disruptor Beam with more damage to small vessels, but this change is calculated AFTER the difference you see here.  SO, my question is: shouldn't the mix-Tech Vorcha be listed as having a higher offensive value than it's normal counterpart?  Both Vorcha's are listed at 38 Offense right now.  It's an 18.6% difference in base weapon strength.  Seems a little misleading to say their Offensive values are the same  .  The extra Torpedoes gained at rank 4 are the same on both ships at all ranks.

  Now of course I'm not complaining.  I love the Klingons and the Vorcha has always been my favorite ship from the first time I saw it in TNG.  BUT ... I'm also ethnically German and very anal-retentive about consistency when it comes to systems of information like this.

 

  Hope that helps if it was a mistake!

posted on December 9th, 2009, 8:29 am

I'm going to hate myself for saying this, but it was most likely meant to either do the same damage or the Klingon one was supposed to be stronger.

posted on December 9th, 2009, 8:40 am

Definitely a bug.  If you look at the rank 2 mixed tech vorcha, the value drops back down.  Just don't let your vorchas level up.

posted on December 9th, 2009, 8:45 am

Definitely a bug.  If you look at the rank 2 mixed tech vorcha, the value drops back down.  Just don't let your vorchas level up.

Ah, good man.  I didn't actually check the middle ones, just the first and the last.  I luvs me my Vor'chas.

posted on December 9th, 2009, 9:23 am

Also the Mixed (Klingon) Defiant Pulse weapons do about 75% of the damage that the normal Defiant does.  Bug?

posted on December 9th, 2009, 9:25 am

Since an increased Offensive Value means more dangerous, I'd say bug.

posted on December 9th, 2009, 9:30 am

Since an increased Offensive Value means more dangerous, I'd say bug.

Lol, generally inconsistency means bugs

  And the fact that the Klingon Defiant has 25% less offense than the normal or Romulan one is clearly a bug because how on earth could the Klingons have LESS attack power?? 


ACK!  Nvm the Klingon Defiant has a faster reload time that makes up for the decrease in damage.  Sometimes late at night I don't always looks at things very carefully

posted on December 9th, 2009, 9:35 am

ACK!  Nvm the Klingon Defiant has a faster reload time that makes up for the decrease in damage.

How does that work? Klingons are power, Romulans are speed... Defiant seems to be getting a bit confused.

posted on December 9th, 2009, 4:57 pm

Yum, bugs 

posted on December 9th, 2009, 5:44 pm

How does that work? Klingons are power, Romulans are speed... Defiant seems to be getting a bit confused.

  Well they both have the same Damage Per Second (DPS).  So it's not a bug, it's just a choice.  Basically I'm guessing the logic behind it is that Klingon-versions like the pew pew idea better