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[Posting] Question: Energy Vortex and voltage
CSY
Thread opener
Posted Fri, 2017-06-02 01:22 GMT, edited Fri, 2017-06-02 01:35 GMT

Greetings legacy planets players. I have a question I would like to ask with respect to the energy vortexes.

Seeing as energy vortexes are extremely rare, I would like to know if anybody here knows if they take place before or after the change in voltage in Host 3.22...

Example: There is a growing ion storm at 407 MeV. If it increases at least 4 MeV, can it trigger the energy vortex?

[Posting] Re: Question: Energy Vortex and voltage
Posted Tue, 2017-06-06 11:17 GMT

Seeing as energy vortexes are extremely rare, I would like to know if anybody here knows if they take place before or after the change in voltage in Host 3.22...

Example: There is a growing ion storm at 407 MeV. If it increases at least 4 MeV, can it trigger the energy vortex?

Greetings untaught planets player,

as far as I can tell, all ship effects (including energy vortexes) happen after all ion storm movement and growth. This analysis was done with Host 3.22.

--Stefan

[Posting] Re: Question: Energy Vortex and voltage
CSY
Thread opener
Posted Tue, 2017-06-06 19:14 GMT, edited Thu, 2017-06-08 04:38 GMT

as far as I can tell, all ship effects (including energy vortexes) happen after all ion storm movement and growth.

Very well. Thanks for answering this, Stefan.

Though I am not surprised that this is the case, given that ion storms do their dragging and damage after their power changes and movement occurs.

Even if I was reasonably educated, the topic of ion storms was recently challenged, so I figured I would see what information I could gather to confirm or bust any claims.

So far, it is looking like all claims are busted. The ending voltage (at point of impact) seems to be the only relevant factor in determining the ability to trigger an energy vortex, never mind dragging and damage.

-CSY

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