Zorg Empire

New battle engine features RAPID FIRE!

Most ships have the Rapid Fire feature. Simply put, while in combat, Rapid Fire is the ability of one unit to attack another unit multiple times in one turn.

The Rapid Fire number, indicates an relative average of how many time the particular ship can attack the ship in question.
For example, Battle Cruiser has rapid fire 7 to Battleship. This means it can attack up around 7 times in one round.
The exact chance rate is: RF - 1 / RF In our example it is 7-1/7 = 0.85 which means 85% chance to attack one more time.

Extra attack is randomly chosen against one of the ships listed in rapidfire. For example, Deathstar who has rapid fire with all other ships, will only attack multiple times one type of ships each round. Of course, the type of ships can change per round. For example, at round 1 it may attack battleships but in round 2 it may attack Light Fighters.

The exact equation used to control the multiple hits in one round, has to do with the RF - 1 / RF that has been already mentioned. After each hit, there is a second check of the same nature. Only difference is that RF has been lowered by 1.

Battle report is trying to inform you of multiple attacks. At this point, we feel it is better to summarize hits, therefore you will see the number of times fired, plus total damage. If no RAPID FIRE took place, the number fired will be 1.

Here is an example of how RF works:
Destroyer has a Rapid Fire rating of 10 against Light Laser.

The total RF table is as a result: Let's now see an example in battle:

i ran a simulation with a pure BC fleet against a composite fleet + a composite fleet combining with LC+DD+RIP+LG along with defense array.

the maximum RF against BC on that array is with RIP that is 15. but i got the following results on the first round.

The attacking fleet fires 1 times for a total of 53.410.000 points of damage on the defender. The defender shields absord 625.536 points of damage.
The defensive fleet fires back 16 times for a total of 17.630.499 points of damage against the attacker. The attacker shields absorb 17.630.499 points of damage

as u an see it says the defensive fleet fires back 16 times. how is that possible?

SPY wrote:i ran a simulation with a pure BC fleet against a composite fleet + a composite fleet combining with LC+DD+RIP+LG along with defense array.

the maximum RF against BC on that array is with RIP that is 15. but i got the following results on the first round.

The attacking fleet fires 1 times for a total of 53.410.000 points of damage on the defender. The defender shields absord 625.536 points of damage.
The defensive fleet fires back 16 times for a total of 17.630.499 points of damage against the attacker. The attacker shields absorb 17.630.499 points of damage

as u an see it says the defensive fleet fires back 16 times. how is that possible?

You got me puzzled for a moment and tried a few simulations. Even inspected the code. Then i saw you had destroyers in the fleet.

Sorry if its a double post my last post isnt showing.

Could you please explain how that 16 hits is making sense to you. i would like to know how the defend number of fires sums up to 16 with the max attack is 15.

if it is few from RIP and few from DD and 1 + 1 from LC and LG then i understand the combined RF from RIP + DD should be 16 - (1+1+1+1) = 12. in the sim or battle reports it doesnt show how many of that is from RIPs and how many are from DDs. hence it is still puzzling to me. also this is my understanding .... feel free to correct me.

Destroyers have RF against BC. Of 2. RIPS of 15.

This means DD can produce 1 extra shot + RIPs 14 extra shots + 1 standard shot = 16