[Desdinova]

questions
1. what level is your tractor beam? it is possible that the ship may be outside its range
2. what level targeting system do you have? it is possible that your tractor beam is missing the ship.
3. how many ships are coming in through the wormhole? you can only board 1 ship per each of your ships/bases. if more than 1 ship coming thru then you could still be in trouble.
4. do you have repair capability on the station to repair the boarding party component after use?

i usually place a 5 ship patrol plus a base for repair and defense on each wormhole for normal use until the ai's start sending in fleets then i bump it up to be greater than the average sized fleet incoming.
then again i also play psychic so use that ability instead of boarding parties once i have the appropriate level, which seems to bypass the self destruct mechanism.

[ February 28, 2003, 18:15: Message edited by: desdinova ]