PvP So does power plant damage mean nothing anymore?
Still matters, but overall awareness of power prioritization is increasing. Back in the day, almost no one knew anything, and people with sound power priorities were a rarity, but now it's probably the exception rather than the rule...at least for anyone who hangs around Open intentionally.
Indeed, I ran into someone with bad power priorities earlier today and was so surprised they stopped moving that I thought they disconnected on me for a second...nope, PP malfunction.
Anyway, if you drop a PP to zero integrity, they fall to 20% output, then stabilize at 50% output after five seconds. Each hit after this has a chance to pop the ship all together, but with slow cycling weapons like rails and cannon it can often take a while to prompt this.
Indeed, I ran into someone with bad power priorities earlier today and was so surprised they stopped moving that I thought they disconnected on me for a second...nope, PP malfunction.
Anyway, if you drop a PP to zero integrity, they fall to 20% output, then stabilize at 50% output after five seconds. Each hit after this has a chance to pop the ship all together, but with slow cycling weapons like rails and cannon it can often take a while to prompt this.
It also depends on the build: if a build is so power-starved that it needs to disable the FSD to deploy hardpoints (like mine), chances are the pilot won't have the time to juggle priorities mid-fight and bring the FSD back to 1 after turning off the spent SCBs, hence they will have a harder time limping away with just Thrusters and FSD functioning (which should really be the only modules with priority 1).
On the flipside hull-tank builds usually have much more power to spare, any competent CMDR will have priorities set so that the lack of PP won't prevent them from escaping.
On the flipside hull-tank builds usually have much more power to spare, any competent CMDR will have priorities set so that the lack of PP won't prevent them from escaping.
I thought it stabilized at 40%? Has it changed recently?
40% is what it falls to (for five seconds) during a standard malfunction. After it's destroyed it falls to 20% and then stabilizes at 50% and it's been that way since PPs have been able to be destroyed without automatically destroying the ship.
