Laser weapons damage (research)

Laser weapons damage (research)

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Cost
30 1 1 1 1 ✖ 100
Prototype type	technology
Internal name	laser-weapons-damage-1
Required technologies
Allows
2-∞

Object description

Space Age expansion exclusive feature.

Laser weapons damage affects the damage of laser weapons and distractor capsules.

Technology	Cost	Per Level	Cumulative
1 Laser weapons damage 1	30 1 1 1 1 ✖ 100	20%	20%
2 Laser weapons damage 2	30 1 1 1 1 ✖ 200	20%	40%
3 Laser weapons damage 3	60 1 1 1 1 ✖ 300	30%	70%
4 Laser weapons damage 4	60 1 1 1 1 ✖ 400	40%	110%
5 Laser weapons damage 5	60 1 1 1 1 1 ✖ 500	50%	160%
6 Laser weapons damage 6	60 1 1 1 1 1 ✖ 600	70%	230%
7-∞ Laser weapons damage 7-∞	60 1 1 1 1 1 1 ✖ 2^(Level-7)*1000 (eg. 1000 for level 7, 2000 for level 8)	70% per level	230% + 70%*(Level-6)

Thresholds

The table below shows for each level of the laser weapons damage research how many (normal quality) laser turret activations are required to destroy a small (S) or medium (M) asteroid on a space platform. Medium asteroids have 90% laser resistance and cannot be destroyed in a single activation at any research level; at research level 12, 20 or more laser turrets provide sufficient combined fire rate to clear medium asteroids at normal platform travel speeds. Big and huge asteroids (95–99% laser resistance) are not practical laser turret targets and are excluded. The table is shown up to level 20; medium asteroids continue to require multiple activations beyond this point.

Activations required to destroy asteroid
Level	Cumulative research cost	S S S	M M M
0	-	7	200
1	400	6	167
2	1.2k	5	143
3	2.4k	4	118
4	4k	3	96
5	6.5k		77
6	9.5k	2	61
7	15.5k		50
8	27.5k		43
9	51.5k		38
10	99.5k		33
11	195.5k	1	30
12	387.5k		27
13	771.5k		25
14	1.54M		23
15	3.075M		21
16	6.147M		20
17	12.291M		19
18	24.579M		18
19	49.156M		17
20	98.308M		16

Biters and Pentapods

The table below shows for each level of the laser weapons damage research how many shots a single laser turret needs to kill a small (S), medium (M), big (B) or behemoth (Bh) biter, or a pentapod (wriggler, strafer or stomper). Biters have no laser resistance; wrigglers and strafers have 50% and stompers 80%, so laser turrets are a poor choice against stompers. It assumes laser shooting speed researched to the same level (up to its maximum of 7; 1.5 shots per second at level 0, 4.8 at level 7) and includes health regeneration between shots; wriggler health decay is ignored. ∞ means a single turret's damage cannot outpace the target's regeneration. Every level up to 15 is listed, then every fifth level up to 50, plus any level at which a small, medium or big biter or a wriggler value changes. The damage bonuses are the same for energy weapons damage in the base game; the research cost column counts Space Age science packs.

Laser turret shots required to kill
Level	Cumulative research cost	Biters				Wrigglers			Strafers			Stompers
		S	M	B	Bh	S	M	B	S	M	B	S	M	B
0	-	1	4	20	188	10	20	40	90	172	353	∞	∞	∞
1	400			17	148	9	17	34	73	136	264	6,270
2	1.2k		3	14	121	8	15	29	61	112	208	1,740
3	2.4k			12	96	6	12	24	49	89	160	901	59,950
4	4k		2	10	76	5	10	20	40	70	125	589	2,870
5	6.5k			8	60	4	8	16	32	56	98	418	1,388	8,796
6	9.5k			6	47		7	13	25	44	76	305	865	2,589
7	15.5k		1	5	39	3	5	10	21	36	62	241	632	1,538
8	27.5k			4	33			9	18	31	53	202	518	1,195
9	51.5k				29	2	4	8	15	27	46	174	438	977
10	99.5k				25			7	14	24	40	153	380	827
11	196k			3	23		3	6	12	21	36	136	336	716
12	388k				21				11	19	33	123	300	632
13	772k				19			5	10	18	30	112	272	565
14	1.54M				17					16	28	103	248	511
15	3.08M			2	16				9	15	26	95	229	467
16	6.15M				15	1	2	4	8	14	24	89	212	430
20	98.3M				12				7	11	19	69	163	325
21	197M				11			3	6		18	66	155	307
25	3.15G				10				5	9	15	54	127	250
29	50.3G			1	8					8	13	46	108	211
30	101G						1	2	4	7	12	45	104	203
35	3.22T				7					6	11	38	88	171
40	103T				6				3		9	33	77	147
45	3.30P				5					5	8	29	68	130
50	106P											26	61	116

History

• 2.0.7:
  • Introduced in Space Age expansion.

See also

• Electric weapons damage (research)
• Energy weapons damage (research) — variant of the research without Space Age
• Research
• Technologies