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damage to building for gas bomb and fast vessels #165

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opened 2026-08-29 17:13:00 +00:00 by metaheavens · 1 comment
metaheavens commented 2026-08-29 17:13:00 +00:00
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metaheavens commented 2026-08-30 00:32:21 +00:00
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Done in 3fcc26c, live at https://metaheavens.de/spaceship/

Gas bomb. The blast used to stop politely at anything the player owned, which made a bomb dropped on a besieged mothership a free way to sweep the attackers off it. Everything inside the radius is inside the radius now - where it lands is the decision the weapon asks for.

Fast vessels. A vessel arriving above 420 units/s damages what it hits, scaled by how much faster than that it was going and capped so no engine upgrade turns a hull into a wrecking ball.

Two details that mattered more than the rule itself:

  • Caught on entry, not on the strike tick. The 0.7s tick is right for a siege but wrong for a collision - a vessel is only moving fast for the instant it arrives. A ship sent in at 900 did no damage at all until this moved to entry.
  • Docking is free, and garrisons are exempt. The fleet sits on its own mothership constantly to bank ore; if that hurt, the economy loop would grind the player's buildings down. And garrison vessels launch from their outpost and re-dock with it at speed - the suite caught the ram rule destroying the garrison the moment it launched.

If you meant something else by "damage to building" - enemy structures rather than the player's own - say so and I will turn it round; the change is small and contained.

Done in 3fcc26c, live at https://metaheavens.de/spaceship/ **Gas bomb.** The blast used to stop politely at anything the player owned, which made a bomb dropped on a besieged mothership a free way to sweep the attackers off it. Everything inside the radius is inside the radius now - where it lands is the decision the weapon asks for. **Fast vessels.** A vessel arriving above 420 units/s damages what it hits, scaled by how much faster than that it was going and capped so no engine upgrade turns a hull into a wrecking ball. Two details that mattered more than the rule itself: - **Caught on entry, not on the strike tick.** The 0.7s tick is right for a siege but wrong for a collision - a vessel is only moving fast for the instant it arrives. A ship sent in at 900 did *no* damage at all until this moved to entry. - **Docking is free, and garrisons are exempt.** The fleet sits on its own mothership constantly to bank ore; if that hurt, the economy loop would grind the player's buildings down. And garrison vessels launch from their outpost and re-dock with it at speed - the suite caught the ram rule destroying the garrison the moment it launched. If you meant something else by "damage to building" - enemy structures rather than the player's own - say so and I will turn it round; the change is small and contained.
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