merchant rating

sasquwatch · Post by **sasquwatch** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 2:06 am

how does the game determine what your rating is? For example i had a rating of 4 of 9 which meant i was under fed protection when in there space. How does the game come to that rating?

Post by **Blum** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 6:57 am

It's not 4 of 9, it's 4 attack rating and 9 defense rating.
Defense rating is determined by the sum of your shields and armor (+ drones multiplied by some number that escapes my mind right now) divided by 100.
Attack rating is determined by adding shield and armor damage that your weapons can do (+ drones multiplied by some number that escapes my mind right now) divided by 40.

vivi · Post by **vivi** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 8:43 pm

and how is a weapons power (and ships power capacity) determined?

Vtreka · Post by **Vtreka** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 1:30 am

weapons all have a set amount of damage they do, to find out each individual weapon just do the same thing as Attack formula without the drones and round it to the nearest number.

So PPL, Nuke and HHG are all 8/ HPL would be 4/ CBD would be 6/ etc etc.

A ship a certain amount of hard points each. You can only have 1 level 5 weapon, 2 level 4 weapons, 3 level 3 weapons 4 level 2 weapons or any number of level 1 weapons on your ship to stop you grabbing 5-6 PPL's or whatever.

Swagman · Post by **Swagman** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 8:36 pm

This may not be totally acurate, these formula's were for SM not SMR, but the weapon ratings havn't changed much since SM.....

Combat: Attack Rating = INT(((armor dmg + shield dmg)/40) +(drones/50))

e.g. Federal Ultimatum
Holy Hand Grenade
Salvene EM Flux Cannon
Salvene EM Flux Cannon
Salvene EM Flux Cannon
Creonti "Big Daddy"
Creonti "Big Daddy"
Torpedo Launcher
120 Combat Drones

INT(((750+600)/40)+(120/50)) = 36

so that's how to come up with the attack rating.

Grey · Post by **Grey** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 5:25 pm

Actually I think it's ROUND and not INT.

Vtreka · Post by **Vtreka** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 5:39 am

INT mean to round

Though I can never remember if its .5 rounding up or whether its just round any fraction down. Two possibilities.

Grey · Post by **Grey** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 6:59 am

INT truncates whatever is behind the '.'. 8.9 becomes 8. ROUND means the nearest round number. 8.9 becomes 9. That is the difference. Btw .5 ROUND's up.