Clarification on Drone damage on Cloaked/ Fading ships

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Ade2011
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Clarification on Drone damage on Cloaked/ Fading ships

Post by Ade2011 »

LTLFTP (Long-time lurker, first-time poster)

According to the 5E ruleset, a drone does 75% damage to a fading in/ out ship, and 50% damage to a fully cloaked ship.

I'm having trouble reconciling the fact that a fully-cloaked ship takes more damage than a fading in/ out ship (I would have though that if anything, it would be the other way around). Any ideas on the rationale for this particular rule?
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Post by JonPerry »

The fully cloaked ship does not take more damage than a fading vessel. It takes less damage.

A fading in/out vessel takes 75% damage, as you noted.
A drone normally does 12 points of damage. 12 * .75 = 9 points of damage.

A fully cloaked vessel takes 50% damage, as you noted.
A drone normally does 12 points of damage. 12 * .50 = 6 points of damage.

Or do I not understand your question?
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Post by Ade2011 »

Yeah, that makes sense.

I can't figure out what confused me now! :oops:
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