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Author Topic: Too aggressive venting with single weapon.  (Read 982 times)

TaLaR

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Too aggressive venting with single weapon.
« on: March 09, 2019, 07:53:09 AM »

Put a HVD on a Hound, max out vents. 200 dissipation / 175 consumption (and there is no shield or anything else to raise it). Deploy it against any slower and shorter ranged enemy (like Close Support Lasher).

Hound vents after every shot - why?
It already has more dissipation than it can use, the only effect venting has is increase of HVD cooldown.

Even for ships with dissipation under consumption it seems better to start vent when weapon cooldown is almost complete.
Refire delay when vent starts right after fire: weapon cooldown + vent time for full flux cost of shot.
Refire delay when vent starts right after cooldown: weapon cooldown + vent time for part of flux cost that failed to dissipate during cooldown.
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Wyvern

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Re: Too aggressive venting with single weapon.
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2019, 09:25:53 AM »

This is even worse with, for example, plasma-cannon style burst weapons - the AI will in some cases vent after the first shot in a burst.
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Wyvern is 100% correct about the math.

Alex

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Re: Too aggressive venting with single weapon.
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2019, 10:42:30 AM »

Hmm - fixed this up, was easy enough. The logic was pre-venting-pausing-weapon-reload. Should also help a bit with venting mid-burst, though not entirely, probably. That would require more digging in.
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