Kragnost
	On battle reports weapon fire is reported like this (from an old'ish battle report): CODE 10 Missile Launcher - 7 hits - 133 [1400] damage - 84% OK, we have number and type of weapon, number of hits achieved, damage not stopped by defences [total damage from hits achieved] and a percentage. What is this percentage please? I've tried to work it out what it means a few times but with no sensible outcome.
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	I'm not figuring it out either. BTW was it supposed to make 133 dmg. Or was it on a already damaged ship? Could you say the shield and armour depth?
Kragnost
	QUOTE (Avatar @ Jul 16 2003, 12:28 PM) I'm not figuring it out either. BTW was it supposed to make 133 dmg. Or was it on a already damaged ship? Could you say the shield and armour depth? I'm happy in my understanding of everything else besides the %age at the end of the line. I can't say the shield depth and armour as I was firing at someone else and you're not told that information at the start of the battle, only the end.
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	It's not the understanding it's the value
Mica Goldstone
	QUOTE (Kragnost @ Jul 16 2003, 10:38 AM) What is this percentage please?  I've tried to work it out what it means a few times but with no sensible outcome. It was the actual percentage chance of each missile hitting, after absolutely every was considered. As it is simply a percentage that each weapon hits, a few weapons may mean that none hit even though it stated an 85% accuracy. Basically % hits tends to accuracy as number of shots tend to infinity.
Kragnost
	I thought that to hit a target with a weapon you have to get less than a number (lets call it the "to hit" number) from the total of 3 random numbers between 1 & 6 (otherwise known as 3D6 to all us old roleplayers). The "to hit" value is accuracy + targ bonus + Target Silhouette - Target dodge and some other stuff. This is actually the closest I got to working out what the %age was but in this respect 18 or more = 100%, 13.5 = 75% and 9 = 50% but that's just not true as 3D6 has more than a 75% chance of producing a number less than 13.5. If the number really the proper calculated %age chance of each weapon making a hit or just a direct conversion of a number in the range 3 to 18 to a %age?
Lord Scrimm
	A 3d6 distribution plots out as a Bell curve - an 84% is probably closer to a 16- on a 3d6 than the 14-15 of a linerar distribution. Cheers, Rich Fanning aka Lord Lawrence Scrimm CIA Director of Regional Operations