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Author Topic: Fighter wing casualties calculated based only on final hull values  (Read 2485 times)

harrumph

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It doesn't matter how much damage a wing takes over the course of a battle (how many individual fighters/bombers are destroyed)—if the wing survives, is repaired and refit, and finishes the battle with full health, the player loses no crew from that unit.

(0.51a RC3)
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Alex

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Re: Fighter wing casualties calculated based only on final hull values
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2012, 12:15:22 PM »

Thanks for the report! This is a known issue - more of a missing feature, really, since it's not implemented at all yet, rather than implemented and broken :)
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Wyvern

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Re: Fighter wing casualties calculated based only on final hull values
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2012, 05:18:19 PM »

There are actually some further oddities - for example, I've had talons come through with hull damage on a couple of fighters, such that overall end health is 71% for the wing as a whole - meaning I lose a pilot even though all fighters are intact.

Conversely, I've had fights where one wing of fighters started off heavily damaged - one of the fighters was at about 1% individual health - at which point, I can end the battle down a fighter but without having lost a pilot (since overall wing health went from ~76% to ~75%)
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Wyvern is 100% correct about the math.

Alex

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Re: Fighter wing casualties calculated based only on final hull values
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2012, 05:21:16 PM »

There are actually some further oddities - for example, I've had talons come through with hull damage on a couple of fighters, such that overall end health is 71% for the wing as a whole - meaning I lose a pilot even though all fighters are intact.

Died from injuries sustained in combat, after landing on carrier.

Conversely, I've had fights where one wing of fighters started off heavily damaged - one of the fighters was at about 1% individual health - at which point, I can end the battle down a fighter but without having lost a pilot (since overall wing health went from ~76% to ~75%)

Ejected.

;D

But, yeah.
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Re: Fighter wing casualties calculated based only on final hull values
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2012, 05:29:14 PM »

Ejected.

Neat!  I want more pilots to do that!
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Re: Fighter wing casualties calculated based only on final hull values
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2012, 01:43:33 AM »

Ejected.

Neat!  I want more pilots to do that!

I can see red things floating around in space.....  :D
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