What are the chances for find an artifact?
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 4:59 pm
I started a military career this time, and from time to time you have to get some artifacts by destroying ships and salvage the wreck. But, what are the probabilities of find the artifact in the debris? I mean, if there is a fixed probability you can last ages to get that artifact. But if these probabilities increases as you destroy more and more ships, well at least you can be sure of find at the end.
Now I'm at quest trying to obtain a coalition's afterburner to bring it back to the Starport. The first one was not too hard (in a previous quest), but now I have destroyed about 45 coalition ships and nothing... I started to be a bit tired of engage combat for useless cargo or debris. Don't know even if after destroy a number of ships the probability goes to 100% directly, can be a solution too.
I know this is Starflight, a slow and paused game (as I like, sure), but if your chances depends only in the luck you have and not in your skills, starts to be a bit boring. If you can set any number (no matter the high it can be) of ships to destroy to have the certain of get the artifact, sure one can stand this and go ahead. If not, at least increase the probabilities of get the gadget after destroy an enemy ship, within one battle, so if you engage combat with a large fleet you have a significant chance of get that thing at last.
A second question, is there a way to maximize the view while in battle? Not sure, but I remember that in the previous beta versions.
And finally, this version (1.01) works fine on my W7 x64, but the mouse pointer moves too slow in game, is it a issue of my PC?
Anyway thanks for bring back my all time favorite game, you all did a nice job.
Now I'm at quest trying to obtain a coalition's afterburner to bring it back to the Starport. The first one was not too hard (in a previous quest), but now I have destroyed about 45 coalition ships and nothing... I started to be a bit tired of engage combat for useless cargo or debris. Don't know even if after destroy a number of ships the probability goes to 100% directly, can be a solution too.
I know this is Starflight, a slow and paused game (as I like, sure), but if your chances depends only in the luck you have and not in your skills, starts to be a bit boring. If you can set any number (no matter the high it can be) of ships to destroy to have the certain of get the artifact, sure one can stand this and go ahead. If not, at least increase the probabilities of get the gadget after destroy an enemy ship, within one battle, so if you engage combat with a large fleet you have a significant chance of get that thing at last.
A second question, is there a way to maximize the view while in battle? Not sure, but I remember that in the previous beta versions.
And finally, this version (1.01) works fine on my W7 x64, but the mouse pointer moves too slow in game, is it a issue of my PC?
Anyway thanks for bring back my all time favorite game, you all did a nice job.