Courage

I don't think anyone has ever quantified what courage does. It is described as helping a planet's defense, but I think that this is a typo. If you check the debug, the game checks your courage status before beginning *ship to ship* combat.

Now, if luck helps with your attack rolls, then perhaps courage helps with your defense rolls. This makes sense to me. You have weapons/luck, why not defense/courage?

I have lately been adding courage as a matter of course, if for no other reason than curiosity, and my ships *seem* to be doing a bit better, and surviving just a bit more often than they used to. This is only speculation, though, and any difference that I am seeing could be nothing but my own wishful thinking.

Best advise- try it for yourself and see if you notice any difference in your land or space battles. It's only one point after all.

I would like to hear from any other players that use courage, and know their thoughts on the matter. Good luck.

Note that this is all DA observations.

Like Mistralok, I've seen it in debug.err when initiating ship-to-ship combat. My observation is different though; it seems that the bonus is always zero when the ships are roughly equal in power, or when my ship (since I'm the one with a courage bonus) is stronger than the AI ship.

So the conclusion I drew in DA at least was that courage boosts a weaker ship in combat.

Interesting. I could see that happening.

C'mon, people. We figured out 'luck', we can figure this out too. Is there no one out there who had that 'lightbulb over the head' moment? Anyone else have any idea at all?

So, it looks like it benefits weaker ships by increasing their defense? How do we prove it? And does it work the same way it TA?

These are really just guesses. It does have some sort of positive effect on combat, but AFAIK, nobody has ever defined exactly what it does.