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Topic: Orz Marines (Read 3699 times)
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Xander77
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What does their kill/death rate depends upon? For example, I've noted that they don't fair too well one Yehat ships - being destroyed after 3-4 kills... but a single marine can take out half a Spathi crew... and how does having many marines on board a single ship effect their capability?
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Shiver
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Semper *Frumple*.
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Tiberian
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I don't believe that. What does the source code say about it?
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Xander77
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In a related question, are they hurt by collusion with asteroids? I know Doggis and Ur-Quan fighters destroy them, but never had the patience to make one bounce an asteroid 3 times...
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Shiver
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If you wanted to have a little fun with this, you could make the "kill vs. be killed" thresholds happen at the "opposite ends" of the byte, rather than next to each other, so for instance a value of 240-255 = "die", a value of 0-127 = "kill somebody", and 128-239 = "do nothing". Then you could outfit each type of ship with a "toughness" attribute that could be applied to the randomly generated value. Ships with a high "toughness" value would have a higher chance of killing the stowaway, and a lower chance for casualties, and ships with a low "toughness" value would have the opposite.
Might be amusing, but it might also play hell with the game balance.
I think the equal effectiveness against all ships makes some sense. When you're invading a ship, you want to blow the damn thing up. Collateral damage during fire fights is a plus. That means those Orz can blast open outter walls and have the crew be sucked out into vacuum. They can storm a room and go completely ballistic on everything that does and doesn't move. The defenders are desperately trying not to wreck their own ship, and probably aren't wearing heavy power armor or carrying fully automatic high-output deathrays.
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Fossaman
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Deep fried Lemur, anyone?
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I don't think asteroids affect marines. They behave more like a ship than a Dogi or fighter. If they bounce on the planet three times they die, though.
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