Re: capturing planets in PBW games
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">GK, are you saying that in your experience, it may take 2 game turns before a change in strategy takes effect rather than immediately? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Re: capturing planets in PBW games
 

Is the ship strategy set to capture? Also if your using a transport the default strategy might be "don't get hurt". I rarely use a transport for transporting just because they allow one less engine.

I'll have to check it out.

Re: capturing planets in PBW games
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">To a newbie who has never captured a planet, this is a pretty concise explanation on how "Capture Planet" works.

But a question. Or two. Or Three.

In Strategies/Capture Planet/Damage, we are presented with a number of choices.

One is "Damage Percent Per planet" which has been set at 100%.

We also have "Damage Target Till All Weapons Gone." which is not ticked.

If a planet has weapon platforms and population. I understand that the order of destruction is weapon platforms, then cargo and then population and facilities.

Question 1. Assume I set the Damage Percent Per planet to 50%. What determines the damage to a planet before it stops? Is it based on tonnage?

Question 2. If "Damage Target Till All Weapons Gone." is ticked, does it stop at Weapon platforms or does it continue until troops in cargo are killed.

Question 3 Which one takes precedence? Damage Percent Per Planet or Damage Targe Till All Weapons Gone?

Re: capturing planets in PBW games
 

I have tried to set the planet damage to 50% before and had attack until all weapons are gone. Once the planet reached 50% damage, my ships moved on to an unarmmed base, while the planet WPs continued to erase the rest of the fleet, including the ones that did an end run around the planet to attack the poor base station. grrr.

I never use the default transport designation. i always just make a new one called "transports" and put all my carrying ships in that. makes it easier when building, designing and upgrading. Same with colony ships. i don't need seperate classifications for each world type.

Just make sure you don't do what i just got done doing. I had two ships carring troops. one was my armmed invaders, and one had my "happy puppy" units (cheap no weapon cockpit only police units).... I dropped the wrong troops. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif It was not a pretty sight.

edit in (sorry, playing turn based Sp tactical. my bad)

[ February 15, 2003, 06:46: Message edited by: couslee ]

Re: capturing planets in PBW games
 

Tbontob, I don't know the answer to your questions. I have never had a need to mess with those settings. Try some test games and fiddle with the settigns and see what effect they have.

Geoschmo

Re: capturing planets in PBW games
 

From Tbontob:
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Correct. That's been my experience. But the actions of the ships in combat is often so at variance with expectations that this could be illusion.

Re: capturing planets in PBW games
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Correct. That's been my experience. But the actions of the ships in combat is often so at variance with expectations that this could be illusion.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LOL http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Smoke and mirrors?! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

But my joking aside, I do wish MM would give us some information on the workings of the strategy menu. It is so confusing to the novice and (most) experts alike.

Re: capturing planets in PBW games
 

"Attack until all weapons gone" is supposed to override the other percentages. (IIRC, that's in the Manual [the one you get to from {F1} Help].)