Rounding for Fire Control Systems?

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Does anyone know how rounding is handled for Fire Control Systems in TA? My understanding of the combat system is that every weapon fires individually. If so, this would make FCS fairly useless for quite some time unless the game rounds fractions up, which seems unlikely. You would need at least Tier 2 weapons (Plasma, etc.) and Tier 2 FCS to get even a single point advantage.

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Also answered by Kyro via IRC... FCS rounds down (as I expected). Thus, FCS is pretty damn useless early on in the game when you've only got 1 or 2 attack points. I had hoped it might be a useful upgrade for my Defenders. Oh well...

 

edit: Left out one relevant detail, if anyone else is reading... the FCS bonus is calculated on the ship's *total* attack rating, though it is only applied to the first shot in each round. Could be some interesting ramifications there as far as penetrating armor is concerned...