[Zaejii]

it seems a lot of people are missing the point, and no matter how much you explain it - they're still going to post their jibberish w/o reading it.

the idea i'm trying to put forth (i guess) is that in tradition games (dungeons and dragons for instance) you had two ways to kill someone. you could kill them with a weapon which was an attack roll vs armor, or you could kill them with a spell which was raw dmg vs a resist check. granted, in those games you didn't destroy the armor to kill the person, you went through their life bar. the spells (like power word kill and such) were on a resist or die basis. so why not make emp, which is already rolled against a resistance number, a resist or malfunction (some of the time) ability?

the point is that when you attack and see emp defense in the jgp, you let it go and land on it fearing no ship loss which-so-ever. the def either has to emp 100% or any partial coverage will mean losses for the defense. attackers lose nothing and might gain. when you see a jgp and it has a 15% kill possibility, you recall automatically. in the first example, the fleet is tied up for the entire attack wave. in the second, it isn't. as we've already discussed, it takes more (volume) of ships to cover 100% than partial kill covers. yes, people will probably still land and not care about 5-10% losses. yes, cathaar emp is very efficient already. yes, its hard to attack huge cathaar late in the game. but, cathaar don't get huge w/o LOTS of help, and even when they are big, they still get lots of incoming. (ask Satyr and Benneh about last round).

with the stats that i've seen for this round, this is really going to be an issue. most races play games of chicken vs other races, but can attack cathaar without fear of losing anything with fi, fr, cr, and de because of emp based defense. the same holds true for etd against fi and de. when any ships get through (even against 90% emp) the losses for the defenders are so ridiculous its either an all covered or full loss and run the fleet scenario.