EM Weapon systems challenge

[dethtrain]

How do I do significant EM damage to ships as quickly as possible? I have 4 emp-200 weapons and 2 Tatsu 501 weapons on my ship and everytime I attack the hull of an enemy ship, the challenge only shows damage increasing by about 4-10 points or so per shot.
In game my EMP-200 weapons do 74.9 hull damage and about 58 EM damage. The tatsu does about 1 damage to hull and shields, and 151 EM damage.
The EM challenges should be as easy as all of the other weapons, so what gives? I'm using a mix of targeting mode and regular locking attacks.

[gywidion]

I used the Nullifier 1750 Suppressor. Slap 4 on you ship and go to town. Did not notice an issue with the challenge with them.

[chipartist]

The problem as I see it is the game does not count actual EM damage for the challenge, but hull damage like other weapons. EM weapons do crap hull damage. It's taken me about 50 levels to get through to Tier 3 with 3 decent EM projectors and I cringe at what Tier 4 might require. However, an item in the patch notes for the next update mentions a revision to EM damage allocation, so hopefully it will change for the better.

[dethtrain]

I just read the beta patchnotes and found this line:
"Fixed an issue where the EM Weapon Systems skill challenge wasn’t tracking EM damage as intended."
So it looks like there was definitely something going on here. I finally finished rank 4 by using 2 varieties of EM weapons and spam-locking high level ships. Took about 3 minutes or so to destroy a ship. Was extremely tedious.

[cougarshamn]

Originally posted by dethtrain:

I just read the beta patchnotes and found this line:
"Fixed an issue where the EM Weapon Systems skill challenge wasn’t tracking EM damage as intended."
So it looks like there was definitely something going on here. I finally finished rank 4 by using 2 varieties of EM weapons and spam-locking high level ships. Took about 3 minutes or so to destroy a ship. Was extremely tedious.

In the beta, it looks like they changed it so it's not about doing damage, but boarding disabled ships.

[chipartist]

Originally posted by cougarshamn:

Originally posted by dethtrain:

I just read the beta patchnotes and found this line:
"Fixed an issue where the EM Weapon Systems skill challenge wasn’t tracking EM damage as intended."
So it looks like there was definitely something going on here. I finally finished rank 4 by using 2 varieties of EM weapons and spam-locking high level ships. Took about 3 minutes or so to destroy a ship. Was extremely tedious.

In the beta, it looks like they changed it so it's not about doing damage, but boarding disabled ships.

Just boarding a ship, or capturing it -- boarding and making it your home ship? From a challenge standpoint it would make more sense to board it, then return to your home ship and blow it with EM + other weapons. I did that a lot to get to Tier 4 in the Targeting skill, plan to continue for the EM challenge as well. I did cap and sell off a few Wights and Hyenas in the process, but that takes time away from finding new combat scenarios.