Andro and rounding

[storeylf]

For smaller andro ships, especially at fleet scale, it is possible to have small fractions of power in batteries, e.g 5 power - 1 decel = 4.25 left.

If during a power dump you catch power but are left with a tiny fraction is that still resolved as a point of damage. At the extreme there could be just 1/8 of power left. Does any fraction round up to a damage point or only where it would be half or greater?

[Steve Cole]

[Edited by mod with permission]

If a fractional point of power remains to be taken as internals, then apply a full point of power, leaving a fractional amount of room in the batteries.

So, if going through the whole procedure results in 5 1/4 energy points that need to be taken as internals, apply 6 points of damage, but the batteries will have 3/4 empty "space".

This just seemed fairer than rounding.

[storeylf]

To clarify that:

Effectively you can only catch whole points of energy when catching power in batteries from either panel dump or cascade damage.

e.g. If I have 6 batteries holding 10.25 power currently and drop a panel bank, and 20 energy is left (after the other panel caught any) to either be caught in batteries or be taken as damage, I will catch 19 in battery and take 1 damage, rather than catch 19.75 and leave the .25 to be dealt with as a rounding problem.

Or in the above case if a satelite ship was in the hangar then the battery catches 19 and the sat ship catches 1. That is subtely different than your wording which only kicks in if damage would result, in this case no damage would result, but the rounding issue is still dealt with cleanly (no fractions in a sat ships panel).

[mjwest]

This is the wording that will be used:

(3G5c5) It is theoretically possible that a fractional energy point could be released in this way. As there are no fractional damage points, release one full point of energy and score one point of internal damage.

In the second case, the energy point hitting the satellite ship is basically internal damage, it would still apply. Only batteries can handle fractional power.

[Kang]

But what happens if there is no room in the batteries?

Also remember that you can't do a voluntary power dump if this would result in internal damage. So, this problem would only happen in the case of a damaged panel, right?

[terryoc]

Panels can't contain partial points of power.

So, for example, your batteries are full except for half a point of power. A panel involuntarily dumps 1 point of power. That point of power doesn't fit, so it is one point of internal damage with your batteries still having half a point of empty capacity.

[Kang]

'ping' Primeval light dawns in the brain Ah, got it. Thanks, Terry

[storeylf]

In the second case, the energy point hitting the satellite ship is basically internal damage, it would still apply. Only batteries can handle fractional power.

I'll have to check tonight, just be clear, but from memory my understanding was that if a panel releases energy, voluntary or not, it goes (ignoring EMods)

1. catch by other panel
2. catch by battery
3. catch by sat ship panels
4. internal damage to ship.

You can't voluntarily dump if you would take damage (thanks Kang I'd forgotten that in my previous post, although that was in fact the point of the original post as it may become relevant in my email game shortly). I took step 4 as being the damage step. Are you saying you can't dump if you woud hit step 3 as that is also considered internal damage?

[terryoc]

No, power transferred to panels of satellite ships in the hangar as a result of a dump is not internal damage, whether voluntary or not.

If an Andromedan ship does take internal damage, and a "shuttle" hit is scored, it is scored on panels of sat ships in the hangar, if any (and if the panels of all sat ships in the hangar are full, then a sat ship would take internal damage). That's where the confusion is coming from.

[mjwest]

Terry is correct. I was trying to make an equivalency that was a bad idea, because it runs smack into a different rule. Yes, you can dump if the power goes to a satellite ship.

Regardless, only the batteries can handle fractional power.

In response to Kang, if there is no room in the batteries, then there are no fractional power points. Only batteries can handle fractional power, but on the other hand, batteries are also the only thing that will cause fractional power. So, if you have full batteries, the problem is moot.

[Kang]

Yep, that all makes sense now. Thank you all, gentlemen