Hello, I would like to ask a question about some guy that disabled me recently.
I'm not really new to this game but that's some things I find strange with him.
One image speaking better than a thousand word here is his ship : 400 attack and 165 def according to my probes, he got no artifact on and his ship is almost naked, he got a merged microgel armor, and 4x dominion cannon.


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And here is mine : 416 attack and 225 def and the better hulls and weapons I could find.


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Still this guy manages to kick my ass everytime I try to retaliate. I'm not complaining about the disabling or anything, I get disabled a lot, that's how the game works nothing wrong with it but come on, how can he got these huge stats (for our levels) with a naked ship and 6 level minus.
And also how does kick my ass so easily while his stats are under mine, each time I strike he does me 75 damages and I do him something like 16.

Am I crazy to think this guy is cheating shamelessly ?

Thank you for reading and for any constructive answer.

damage cap probably


http://galaxylegion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5720 (2nd post)

Yeah, he has about the same attack and defense, but a lot fewer decks, so they take less damage.

Damage Cap, Another Scout ship, hate them. They Mass Recruit Tactical Officers and take advantage of the Damage Cap.
Shouldn't he be a Konqul Fixer?

dnt worry, time will find a way to deal with these small ship building fools.

True, small ship builds is slow death. They will eventually have to invest in decks, and when they do, they will be massively behind.

Okey so having lots of decks is a huge drawback and I m building my ship wrong from the beginning if I understand well ?

No you are doing it right, that guy whoever you are fighting is taking a rush build, he is only strong at low ranks, he mass recruits Tactical Officers, in later gameplay. We call this a scout build. It has many disadvantages

- No space to install scanners to scan for planets
- Minimal energy, unable to do much
- Slow ranking
- Slow Death, you will eventually beat and overwhelm him in the long run.

Continue investing in decks. This is the standard build just like me.

Since that guy is Rank 54, if he spent all his rank points into Tactical Officers 54x5x2 = 540 +160 Attack from cannons = 700 attack. Evidently, he has invested some rank points into decks though.

Okey, thanks for reassuring me !
Always good to learn things.
But why did the devs include the decks in the damage you take or give ? I don't really see the use of that.

Damage cap is designed to prevent large ships picking on little ones. it does this by having the maximum deal-able damage dependent on your opponents ship size (scout, cruiser ect). however in this case, your opponent has used his knowledge of the loop hole for evil.

The damage equation is based on the damage cap, so there must be some way to measure it. It used to be based on hull I believe, but that seemed a bit silly (double your health and you just double the damage you take). It's based on decks so that players must keep their level of defense up with their ship if they want to do well, instead of just making a really large ship with no defense.

damage cap is either:
1) half your decks (IE 500/20 = 250 max damage)
2) Your (level/2) + 19 (IE (200/2)+19 = 119 max damage)
which ever is greater

thought the level based cap was (level+19)/2

Yes, you are correct; it's because you start at level 1 with 20 decks, so this makes the minimum damage cap equivalent to 1 deck per rank.

Might be, i dont recall the exact one for level based