[DavidG]

The frustrating part is that it seems to me that it really shouldn't require 'massive reprpgraaming' I would think orders like Ram, Capture and Don't hurt be should be the easiest to program.

As far as ways around these things. What are they? I don't understand the 'not putting weapons' on ramming and capture ships because the latest incidents that prompted this thread were with ram ships that had no weapons and capture ships that had no weapons. The weird thing is that in the game I'm currently playing I have has a lot of success with capturing ships then comes the big combat against the megaevil human and poof they all die without even an attampt to capture.