[X3AP] OOS Laser Tower question

[Simoom]

I am thinking about deploying a few dozen laser towers around the gates to Xenon sectors to help my capital ships with OOS defense. However, weapon ranges are typically not taken into account for OOS combat (meaning ships have to be right on top of each other to fire).

I was wondering if this is true for Laser Towers in OOS combat as well? I mean, since they are stationary objects, this would make them pretty much useless right? (in addition to not being able to help each other out)

[Bobucles]

You want the ring of fire mod.

[Simoom]

I've seen that back when I played TC, but I am trying to keep my AP vanilla. :/

Do laser towers have a good weapon's range while OOS?

[Alan Phipps]

There are no weapon ranges OOS, ships close to a generic 'combat range' and then do the initiative and damage maths in rounds.

[BurningMan]

around 30-40 lasertowers deployed near a xenon gate are an almost perfect defense and will generally destroy anything that trys to get into the sector in seconds and you will almost never suffer any losses so they are certainly a good way to defend sectors from xenon invasions if you can get your hands on enough lasertowers (pretty easy with a simple complex).

[Simoom]

There are no weapon ranges OOS, ships close to a generic 'combat range' and then do the initiative and damage maths in rounds.

Okay, so assuming the laser towers are pretty closely bunched together, they should be able to support each other when enemies show up, right? Do you know roughly how far away this combat range is? (since ships coming through gates usually spawn some distance away from the gate itself)

[Gazz]

There are no weapon ranges OOS, ships close to a generic 'combat range' and then do the initiative and damage maths in rounds.

That is mostly correct... since LT (being static defenses) have a little extra range compared to regular ships.
They are hard enough to use OOS as is...

LT do not use the combat script of ships so the ranges you see in those scripts do not apply.


In TC, LT are basically broken.