Player Combat

Player combat occurs between the player flagship, and one or more races, pirates, or anti-federation rebels/assassins.

Mechanics

• We-go style turn-based action in a top down space shooter.

• Power management between shields, weapons, and engines

• Special abilities from Hydral tech

• Objectives, including 1 or more of:
  • Destroy all flagships
  • Destroy at least X flaghips
  • Dock with station for X turns

Auto-resolve

Combat can largely be avoided through using dispatches, but can also be skipped (for a price) during the battle (except the first battle) at any time by clicking the auto-resolve button in the lower left corner.

• Strength for auto-resolve counts all techs, abilities, and allies in the battle vs the strength of all foes to determine how the battle is resolved
• For each ability that you have in your posession, you get a multiplier to either your hull strength or attack strength, and then also to your autoresolve power. They are broken out by category:
  • Direct Weapons: 1.01 to attack, 1.1 to autoresolve.
  • Offensive: 1.005 to attack, 1.05 to autoresolve.
  • Operations: 1.005 to hull, 1.05 to autoresolve.
  • Specialty: 1.004 to hull, 1.04 to autoresolve.
  • These apply whether or not you have them actually equipped.

• Notes on specific mission types:
  • If you auto-resolve the deliver-spacefaring-tech mission, it treats it as if you alerted ALL of the spy probes.

• The following scenario types have max turn caps for auto-resolve that makes them always winnable, even if they do take a really long time:
  • Freighter Convoy: 999
  • Destroy Pirate Base: 999
  • Smuggle In Resistance Fighters: 999
  • Raid Pirate Convoy: 999
  • Raid Hydral Technology Lab: 999
  • Capture Civilian Outpost: 999
  • Capture Technology: 999
  • Quest: Scientist Defection: 999
  • Quest: Attack Detention Facility: 999
  • Quest: Bring Something To Race While Blocked By Another Race: 999
  • Deliver Spacefaring Tech: 500
  • Quest: Deliver Technical Documents: 500
  • First Encounter: 100

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