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Originally posted by mac5732:
WHojo, sounds good, you don't want it to be easy. Question, what about using tracter beam along with ship capture or working something out on this. It seems that pirates would use a type of tractor beam to pull in enemy ships, hit victim with tractor beam, pull towards you then board with ship capture or is tractor beam part of ship capture routine? I haven't used ship capture yet so don't know. still experimenting with various things yet,,
Did you make the small worlds colonies or just bases for repair & supply? How did you get tech research, from your bases, planets, or thru liberating them from friend & foe or from all? mac
Regarding the tractor beams - I've never used em - never could find a need for them either - as long as your ships can manuever you're ok w/o em, plus they wld take up valuable space on ships (not to mention the costs)
Ship capture is simple - 2 things to remember - 1) make sure target ship has shields down (can't capture a ship w/sheilds still up) 2) make sure you're adjacent to the target ship and that your boarding ship has a undamaged boarding party
I made the 2 tiny moons Intell centers (6 Pirate intell center per)
got tech via research (to get to the initial ship capture - takes a looooong time) but mostly via ship capture/analyze
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