Re: Blockades
 

How do you blockade a planet, without attacking
it?

Re: Blockades
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, in tactical mose it's easy... don't attack!

Strategic is a little harder, it's a matter of making sure you have your fleet strategies and ship strategies correctly set.

ALternatively, send in an unarmed (or armed only with PD) ship.

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Also, set your fleet leader to a ship with no weapons. It will run away from the planet instead of attack and the other ships will follow. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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what is the point of a Blockade, since the planet can still build or does this stop the empire as a whole from getting any resources from said planet?

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Yes, it does block resources and research and intel.

The point is generally to block these without having to fight the defenses (except mines), and/or to do so until your troop ships can arrive so you can take the planet intact, and/or to irritate the opponent and make him waste inordinate fleet resources chasing your blockaders.

PvK

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Does blockcading the planet with a spaceport effectively block the rest of the planets in the system?

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No. System-wide abilities of a blockaded planet function normally. It is only the resource/research/intel production of the blockaded planet that is affected.

Blockades
 

When I blockade a planet, what happens to the production of research and intelligence?
I know that the production of minerals, orgs and rads stops, but I have my doubts about research and intelligence, since these two don't need an spaceport to be avaliable for an empire....

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It stops.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That is incorrect. They need a spaceport as well.

[ June 03, 2004, 12:20: Message edited by: geoschmo ]