Plasma Coil Radius

posted on February 16th, 2010, 5:57 am

  Hey hey, so today Dom and I did a test of Risner v. Mayson, and I noticed that the Norway's Plasma Coil actually has an area of effect FAR greater than the animation.  I don't know if it's supposed to be that way, but there were vessels showing the animation effects of being hit by it and losing shields quite a ways outside of the visual Coil.

  Someone mind checking on that? 

posted on February 16th, 2010, 6:06 am

Well, the radius is 600, so it has a diameter of 1200.  I forget how big the animation is, but it's possible.  Can you get a screen shot or a video of it?

posted on February 16th, 2010, 6:13 am

Aha!  I can't get a video but I will work on rigging up a screenshot here soon.  Also... Yandonman recorded Dom and I testing Mayson vs. Risner and I spammed Norways on purpose to illustrate what he's capable of.  That's actually where I noticed the area discrepancy.  Once he puts that up I'm sure you can all see that the coil effect hits many things.

  Is the Diameter supposed to be 600 instead of the Radius?  The Animation itself is only slightly smaller than 600 units in Diameter.

posted on February 16th, 2010, 6:24 am

With area effect weapons, I've always understood it to be the radius.  Think of it like a 360 phasers firing at each degree from the center of where you selected.  That's why Sovereigns have a short ranged special that still covers a decent sized area.  I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not because it makes sense in light of all the other AoE specials.

posted on February 16th, 2010, 8:18 am

Guess I'm just curious to know if that's how it was intended?  Is the actual affected area supposed to be about twice the size (radius-wise) of the animation?  It makes a difference because people will often target the Plasma Coil only on certain ships in order to make sure it doesn't spread out too far over too many ships and have less effect.

  Right now it will engulf almost an entire battle as 1200 units in diameter is longer than artillery range.

[Optec]

posted on February 16th, 2010, 11:11 am

Last edited by Optec on February 16th, 2010, 11:50 am, edited 1 time in total.

yep the range is slightly larger then the effect, might be changed, but plasmacoil is on todo for replacement eitherway

by the way, the diameter is 800 units

//edit: adjusted

posted on February 16th, 2010, 5:20 pm

Oh, I see.  600 was the range you could cast it at.  The other value, 400, was the radius.  It was late last night.

posted on February 16th, 2010, 5:32 pm

yep the range is slightly larger then the effect, might be changed, but plasmacoil is on todo for replacement eitherway

by the way, the diameter is 800 units

//edit: adjusted

  Oh I see .


  Well good to know either way!  Thanks, Optec!