The one that keeps going at 0%. Fighting in a CZ to get combat bonds and for the bigger stuff target the PP to speed up the kill rather than take the hull to 0. A couple of times fighting a Conda and a Python got the PP down to 0% and they are still going, manoeuvring and firing. Took another minute or more to make them pop. Module damage seems to do nothing to these ships.
They work just like yours do. At 0% your powerplant also produces 50% power. If you ran the shoddy modules most NPCs do you'd be able to run lots under 50% too.
This is actually a very common bug that's been around for years.
My friends and I encountered this all the time back when we used to stack wing assassination missions before they got nerfed and were actually fun
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So what does the 0% actually represent? Am I wasting my time targeting the PP?
The other thing is, if the power plant is at 0%, every time you hit it, there is a chance it goes critical and blows up the ship. It's not guaranteed, but if you have a build that's good at module sniping, it will reliably save you some time.
It represents a level of damage where it is only 50% functional. No, because you limit your target's options on 50% power. Some modules do turn off, depends what they are. And as stated above at 0% every hit has a chance of crit and instant death.
NPCs ignore module damage to a ridiculous extent. They are always happy to wake out any time with a FSD integrity of 2%. So target FSD first, bring it down to 0 and only then focus the PP.
Exactly. The first thing I do when I see a Chieftain of Challenger in a CZ is taking out thrusters and power planet next. Ship usually explodes at 50-60% of hull value. Normally they are very tough if you aim for the hull. Also ships like Python or Anaconda are much more resistant and their power plants/ thrusters are more difficult to damage.
As others have said 0% integrity doesn't mean 0% power output. It's actually 50%. And with 50% you can power thrusters, weapons, fsd, and some defenses easily in an un- or lightly engineered ship. If you watch them there shields never come back and for some even the fsd stops working too. The magic is in the power priorities.