Don't Understand Kinetic Power Calculation

I am now playing as the Altarians and went to war against the Krynn.  When I looked at the ships they had I noticed a discrepancy in the calculation of the power of the Kinetic weapons.  In the upper right-hand corner of the screen snapshot below, you can see that their ship has four Railguns with each Railgun having a power of 4.  This should give the ship a total Kinetic power of 16 (4 x 4 = 16), but  in the upper left-hand corner of the screen snapshot it shows the total Kinetic power of the ship is 28.

How is the Kinetic power of the ship calculated to arrive at 28?

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Reply #1 Top

There can be boosts to the weapon power due to techs.  The screen you are using doesn't show all of the boosts.

Here is a screenshot of one of my ships using the same screen you did.

It shows 6 weapons with 11 attack each, but the total is 73.8.

When I go back to the galaxy screen, select the ship and look at the information in the lower-left corner, the value is 73.  That's because some locations don't have space for all the digits (NOTE: most locations will truncate the value, but some may round it up).  When I put the cursor on the number for kinetics, I get more information, as shown in this screenshot.

This still doesn't show all the boosts, but it does show a summary of all the boosts.  The calculation is as follows:

6 weapons at 6 base attack each = 36
techs give a total of +5 to the total attack, so new total attack is now 41
techs also give +80% to the new total attack, so total attack in now 41 + 80% = 41 + 32.8 = 73.8

To see all the boosts, put the cursor on the ship in the galaxy screen to get a tool tip about it.  Then hold down the shift key and move the cursor to the kinetic attack value in that tool tip to get another tool tip with all the information about the boosts as shown in this screenshot.

This shows 5 techs that each add 1 to the total attack value and 8 techs that each add 10% to the total attack value.

If you hold down the shift key and move the cursor to any of the techs listed, you will get more information about them.

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Reply #2 Top

Old-Spider,

WOW!!!

I had no idea that much information was available.  I think it is great that the devs figured-out a way to make this available to players, but it would be nice if the education you gave in your post was available on the screen.

Thank you!