Effects: Large Cannons Favor Punch Through (Balance Concerns)

[Terramort]

Wow, never though of it that way. Missiles should lose significant blast power as they eat out blocks, as each layer it blast through will be reflecting a large amount of the xplosion back into space.

 

[NeonSturm]

Hmmm, it seems that pierce needs a slight mechanic adjustment, I'll talk with schema about this, I think I know a solution.

Pierce should do its damage as %'s of the total blocks health, not the % of the shots damage. This is a slight oversight with a noticeably bad result, sorry I didn't catch it previously.

(excess damage should carry over)

As in: A 1200 damage cannon targeted at
{(hull = 200hp, 50% armour), (basic hull = 100hp, 30% armour), (power block = 25 hp, 0% armour)}

1. let the first block take 100 damage and then forward
   1. 275 damage as (1200-100) * armour^(efficiency: 1- (-1))
      
   2. 200 damage as 1200 * armour^(efficiency: 1- (-1)) -100
2. let the first block take 100*armour^(efficiency: 1- (-1)) = 25 damage and then forward
   1. 1200-25= 1175 damage
   2. 1200-100= 1100 damage
3. calculate 1200*armour^(efficiency: 1- (-1)) = 300 and let the first block take
   1. 100 damage of it + forward 200
   2. 25 damage of it + forward 275
   3. 25 damage of it and forward 200

???
Very confusing and bad documented

We can't really give a feedback until we know how it is intended to work and how to figure out which factor is supposed to be calculated first.