A matter of defense

[Maglok]

Hello,

I have a question. How does defense exactly work?

The idea I have so far is this: You put a SPECIAL on a ship. The SPECIAL has a certain amount of defense points and a def %. Let's assume the def % is 10% and the def points are 100. What I think then is that for each ship your fleet gains 10% of the defense of a single ship, thus 10. If you have a fleet of 10 ships you'd have 100 defense, 100 ships 1000 defense, etc.

This was what I thought, this is not how it works though. For a fleet of my ships my defense should have been around 380K effective. Still my fleet gets shot out of the sky with a mere 124.000 dmg. (I also had 25% dmg absorb). How does this work?

[FTP]

The defence % is just a bonus so with 100 defence and 10% def 1 ship has 110 defence
With 100 ships that is 11000 defence with 1000 ships 110000 defence.

In battle the damage works like this:

Total Damage enemy does - your aborb - defence = damage you will see (this amount will be lowered to the HP your ships have in total).

In your example you saw it doing (124.000 damage + (defence x number of ships)) / 0.75 = damage the enemy fleet dealt

[Maglok]

That explains so much, thanks.

[Amagnon]

At the current energy cost for Defense it is in no wise worth adding to a ship.

[Gunfighter Frank]

the thing with defense is if   have one ship fase multiple fleets the defense is always the same were as hp will degrade with each seperate attack. but the defense has been proven to work well on swarmers since the defense also increases with crew level where HP does not increase with crew level, unless you are flying a pure HP boat.