Light starships and their kin

[SpaceBrotha]

Hey, new player here.
Bought AI war over the christmas sale on steam and i've logged some 120 hours of gametime since then, awesome game with incredible replay value.

So I browsed both the wiki and this forum for an hour or two and i can't seem to find an answer to a simple question that should be in the tooltip:
The attack power boost of the light starships and the like, how big a boost is it exactly?
And if it's shown somewhere in the game itself, where?

[keith.lamothe]

Bought AI war over the christmas sale on steam and i've logged some 120 hours of gametime since then, awesome game with incredible replay value.

Very glad you're enjoying it

So I browsed both the wiki and this forum for an hour or two and i can't seem to find an answer to a simple question that should be in the tooltip:
The attack power boost of the light starships and the like, how big a boost is it exactly?
And if it's shown somewhere in the game itself, where?

It's shown on a boosted unit; just send a light starship into range of something boostable (a fighter is a good one, as the fighter has no boost cap; turrets and some other units are either not boostable at all or have a boost cap), then mouseover the boosted unit and it will say "(Attack Boosted 1.40x)" or whatever on the top line of the tooltip.

But you do raise a good point about being able to get this info from the tooltip of the ship doing the boosting, so I just put in a change to that effect (and to note the personal boost cap on ships that can be boosted but not to the normal max of +400%) in my working copy and it should make it into 5.021

[SpaceBrotha]

Yeah maybe i should reconsider getting glasses after all.
Another thing that would be nice to know is how many other ships can it boost?

[Hearteater]

Those tooltips hold a TON of information.  I think everyone who has played this game, even for hundreds of hours, misses stuff on them .

[BobTheJanitor]

I love tooltips. Everything in life should have tooltips. When the technology gets there, I want an app for my brain-computer interface that pulls up tooltips for everything I look at. [This is a chair. Sit in it.]  [This is a doorknob. Twist it to open the door.]  [This is a woman. Stop staring at her before she slaps you.]

[keith.lamothe]

I love tooltips. Everything in life should have tooltips. When the technology gets there, I want an app for my brain-computer interface that pulls up tooltips for everything I look at. [This is a chair. Sit in it.]  [This is a doorknob. Twist it to open the door.]  [This is a woman. Stop staring at her before she slaps you.]

Ah, but to who will you send the bug reports?

"Can you fix this tooltip, please?  That happens to be my wife."

[BobTheJanitor]

Ah, but to who will you send the bug reports?

"Can you fix this tooltip, please?  That happens to be my wife."

No doubt it will be a wiki-like system, allowing anyone to edit it. Open to all the abuses of that system, of course. [This is a kitten. Pet it.] No... that's a rabid wolverine.

[Wanderer]

Ah, but to who will you send the bug reports?

"Can you fix this tooltip, please?  That happens to be my wife."

No doubt it will be a wiki-like system, allowing anyone to edit it. Open to all the abuses of that system, of course. [This is a kitten. Pet it.] No... that's a rabid wolverine.

Reminds me of one of the messages I ran across in Dark Souls.  "Try Jumping..."  Blasted wiseguy...