[jg18]

Question 1:

Spoiler:

With the arriival cue as written, the bombers will only arrive when the Baal's hull strength is exactly 50%. If the Baal's hull strength drops from say 51% to 49%, then the arrival cue won't become true and the bombers won't arrive.

Question 2:

Spoiler:

It's that tricky Repeat Count at work. After the player first gets in range of the Oslo's FighterRecharge and gets charged, the game will check every two minutes if the player's near the Oslo's FigterRecharge beam, and if so, trigger the recharge. At any other time, nothing will happen, even if the player's near the FighterRecharge.

Question 3:

Spoiler:

Umm... is there some weirdness in game mechanics that only occurs on Insane difficulty? Btw, it's spelled Akheton.

[Qent]

Tested my answer for #3.

[Lorric]

The categories are correct in my case. I would class myself as a beginner. And I knew the beginner question.

[jg18]

More on Question 3:

Spoiler:

So I tried flying an invulnerable Perseus on Medium difficulty with Akhetons in both primary banks against a Basilisk, where I set the Basilisk's secondaries to None and primaries to Shivan Light Laser (why not?), with all mods off, took out all of its subsystems with the Akhetons, then several more Akheton shots later, it suddenly blows up! I've done that three times. I then tried guardianing the Basilisk's weapons subsystem (threshold of 1) and was still able to blow it up with the Akhetons. WTH is going on?

[headdie]

Spoiler:

is there a bug in how FSO deals with excess subsystem damage when "Puncture" flag is involved?

[Qent]

Spoiler:

Was it neither disarmed nor disabled?

[jg18]

Spoiler:

Was it neither disarmed nor disabled?

Assuming you're replying to me:

Spoiler:

In all cases, I had disabled it before I blew it up, and I had disarmed it (weapons subsystem of 0%) in the first three cases, but in the other two cases, I guardianed its weapons subsystem, so I couldn't disarm it.

[Qent]

Spoiler:

See if you can with its engines guardianed. Or at least without disabling it.

[jg18]

Spoiler:

See if you can with its engines guardianed. Or at least without disabling it.

Spoiler:

Ok, so if either its weapons subsystem or its engines are guardianed, then I can blow it up with the Akheton, but if both are guardianed, then I can't. But why? Why does disarming or disabling it make it vulnerable to being destroyed by the Akheton?

EDIT:

Spoiler:

Apparently the Akheton is much deadlier than I ever imagined.

[Droid803]

3:

Spoiler:

Disabling or Disarming a ship that is a part of a wing will cause the game to blow it up after an amount of time. Even if you don't shoot at it. This is intentional, to prevent people from delaying the arrival of subsequent wings (if any) by neutering one of the wing. Solution: don't put it in a wing, just name it like it is.

[jg18]

3:

Spoiler:

Disabling or Disarming a ship that is a part of a wing will cause the game to blow it up after an amount of time. Even if you don't shoot at it. This is intentional, to prevent people from delaying the arrival of subsequent wings (if any) by neutering one of the wing. Solution: don't put it in a wing, just name it like it is.

Spoiler:

Interesting, and confirmed by experiment -- taking the Basilisk out of the wing and unguardianing its subsystems made it impossible to kill with the Akheton. Is that documented anywhere? I wouldn't even know where to look.

[Scourge of Ages]

Spoiler:

Interesting, and confirmed by experiment -- taking the Basilisk out of the wing and unguardianing its subsystems made it impossible to kill with the Akheton. Is that documented anywhere? I wouldn't even know where to look.

Spoiler:

Since it's confirmed, I have documented it: spoiled link