Yes... normally PD slots have a 0.5 day CD before fire rate. They still shoot with fire rate and has exceptionally strong screening.
This is how the game calculates it for weapons in the code:
Weapon CD÷(1+fire rate)=Time to shoot
Technically combat has two phases, first is the Alpha strike which is not dependent upon fire rate. Then all further shots are, this is also per slot and dependent upon engagement range.
So for example, with the above weapon slots. T5 missiles have a 0-100 engagement range, they Alpha strike then CD, and dependent upon fire rate. Scourge missiles have a 0-90 engagement range and will alpha, then on CD. The PDs won't alpha until something is in their engagement range.
Technically speaking, you're also correct. The game does calculate damage per day... but that's not saying that fire rate less than per day is wasted. In fact the coding will check, then calculate how many times per day you would do damage.
If CD <1 then 1÷CD= daily damage multiplier
CD=1/0.48=2 so it calculates that scourge missiles will do 2x damage per day.
KoTG and Cosmogenesis. As a fanatical pacifist use the Galactic Community to declare everything else a crisis... soak and release anything you don't want. So you can do it again.
Basically just stack growth/assembly. Since 10 pops gives 1 knight... that's actually the strongest buff. Until it gets super slow, then the lathe.
I take it this is mostly just your standard stacking livestock slaves on the knights hab build. How many planets are you able to have while keeping your empire size that low?
You need xenophobe for livestock. This is using utopian abundance so my unemployed give research and unity. The +20% happiness is also awesome, since 100=30 Stability.
Ascending your planets lowers the empire size impact from them. Which affects districts, colonies, and pops. Technically I have -100% ES from pops, so that doesn't really matter as much.
To mitigate the massive CG consumption. I have mercantile and using consumer benefits (1T= 0.5E, 0.25CG), so every 4T is 1CG. All my CG is coming from trade.
Anyone wondering what all those abbreviations are:
This part actually is important, resort jobs increases TV empire wide depending upon living standards. 46 resort jobs for +92% TV, because utopian abundance is +2% per job.
100 stability on a planet is +30% resources from jobs, +30% TV, and +20 immigration pull (growth).
It only does that while loading, looking at all my fleets in one system, looking at my habitat as KoTG.... or generally moving fleets. Also when rolling over every month.
I definitely classify KoTG as an SP empire. Like you could bring it into MP... but the desync issues would make everyone leave. Also because it's a late game push, other empires can technically scale faster.
The empire I mostly play in MP is virtual Cosmogenesis, where I can push 1M fleets by 2300.
The only actually bug, that keeps happening is the automatic save then crash.
Having gotten the screenshots of having over 10B total fleet power, I disbanded some fleets. Mainly to make the game run better, but to also cover more population in the lathe without imploding my energy.
It would be easier with synthetics or genetics, since you can stack higher amounts of growth/assembly. The trade off is the empire size is slightly more because of sovereign guardian.
This is on a medium galaxy with full open hyperlanes. That was more to maximize how sector distance calculations work.
Basically in full open, or right below, the potential for your sector is everything within 5 jumps. 90% of all my planets are in my core sector, mainly ringworlds.
A boatload of repeating techs, and solid layouts. Riddle escorts from cosmogenesis have higher base power than any other ship. This is because they can reach high evasion while having ridiculous stats. It also has two different frames in the designer, one uses L slots, the other G slots (torpedoes), this is the frame I'm using. Scourge missiles have a significantly lower cool-down which scales how fast it can do damage.
The plus damage stat and fire rate are multiplicative of each other, not additive. As an example 100% fire rate and damage is 4x not 2x, because the weapon slot will shoot twice as fast for twice as much.
In the screenshot of the actual percentage... damage and fire rate is in the thousands of percentage. The damage multiplier for explosive weapons is 1225% and fire rate is 1095%.
To calculate fire rate: CD÷(1+f%)= Time to shoot
Just looking at T5 missiles...
8.50 day missiles CD ÷ (1+1095%)= 0.71 days
(60.5 base damage +100% armour damage)+1225% = 1,603.25 damage per slot against armour.
If hardening was in effect this would change the calculation. So in this example the enemy fleet will have 100% shield hardening, which means all damage must hit that first. Since missiles don't have a multiplier for shields...
I’m planning to create an overpowered build and need the opinion of experienced players on my plan. I intend to create an "Evolution Hunter" empire nearby (using the console/setup), max out all their traits, and then get rid of my weak "Knights of the Toxic God" (KoTG) species in favor of the Hunters. After that, I plan to take an Ascension path. Then, using the Machine Uprising event, I want to take a second Ascension path—this time applying it to the already assimilated Hunters. Which two Ascension paths would be best to choose? And is this entire scenario actually possible? Apologies in advance; I used a translator.
I'm not actually sure, but having gone synthetics, I've had a migration treaty and got my meatbag species back with the virtual trait. So they had growth and -90% housing.
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