Guide to Battle Pirates Part 4

Defenses 

At the end of part 3 we got the D1-C, a Drac armor that provides 10% ballistic defense to our ships when we use it. Which is great, but the bad part is how kixeye math doesn't appear as it looks. Kixeye math is based upon multiplicative math. The defense bonus stack onto of each other, but do so proportionally to out of 100. 

So, if I add two D1-C armors on a long ship, instead of having 20% defenses, I will only have 19% percent. Let me break it down for you. 

10% of 100 is 10. Now that we already have 10, we have to take it out of 90 now. 

10% of 90 is 9. So we add 9 to the total defense of whatever type of damage and we are left with 81. 

10% of 81 is 8.1. We add it to 10 and 9 and we get 27% defense. 

Just keep on adding 10% to the remaining total out of 100 to find the defense percentage. 

If you can't or don't want to figure out how to find the defense, just use the shipyard in game or use Huggy's at  https://www.dahippo.com/bp/ship/ 

Huggy's Ship Builder 

Links to Facebook group and Huggy's site 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Huggys/

https://www.dahippo.com/bp/ship/ 

Huggy's is a website that is extremely useful to building fleets without logging into the game, and can be used on mobile devices. 

Basic Huggy's view

Here is the basic Huggy's view. First you need to select your ship that you wanna build, click on the Add Ship in the fleet slot, or click on Select Ship in the blue bar. 

I choose the long ship to build. On the left shows the general stats of the ship, such as armor and speed. Below on the right shows how long it will take to build it and to repair it. Under the ship itself shows the weight limit of the ship. Now to add weapons, we have to click on the green slots on the ship. Doing so will pop up a new screen. 

 

Now, I wanna put Thud 4 on the long ships, so I click on the Thud 4 icon in the top left. Hovering over the icon will show the general information of the weapon, and how long it takes to build, and if it adds armor how long to repair the said armor. 

Now that we have the weapons added, lets add some armor. The process is the same, just click on the armor slots, shown in grey, and select your armor types. I chose the Steel 2 and Steel 3. 

The orange slot is for specials, which we will cover in the next post. The total build time to build the ship is 1 hour and 5 minutes, and to repair it is 3 minutes. Now, click on the copy button in the fleet box in the top left, this copies your ship build to the other slots. 

Now that we have all 5 ships in our fleet box, click on the button marked fleet in the bottom left in the Build/Repair Data to see how long it will take to build and repair the whole fleet.