Melee Decay.

[DaveFoz]

Now I have done a search on Melee Decay, And I have found plenty about how much decay, the pros and Cons of the decay v ranged weapons. However I have not found an answer to this question.

When using Melee, does the decay only occur when you get a hit on a Mob.

The reason I ask is with a ranged weapon regardless of whether you hit or not you have burned ammo and fired it through the weapon so you have taken decay.

But with Melee if you miss your target would you still decay? As Melee only causes daage if contact occurs. so I think Decay should not happen unless you actually hit something.

Many thanks in advance for your answers or links to threads that I missed.

[Bob Govintl]

there's 2 types of miss:

1. Missing due to lag, bad aim, not having a target. with melee you dont get any decay from this. with guns you fire wherever you're aiming and so still get decay

2. Missing due to low hit ability. even with 10/10 hit ability you will still miss some of the time, about 8% iirc. these type of misses will cause decay even with melee

dont quote me on this as i'm not a melee user but i've seen this information before and assume its still accurate

[Spawn]

Problem here is establishing what is a miss due to lag or a miss due to low hit ability.

In my book: missing when there is a target costs money
missing when there is not a target does not

[DaveFoz]

Well Thanks for your posts. I think I will have to do a bit of research on this myself to get the answer.

Definatly want to see if I can work out the miss when Mob is present is there decay.