Transporting Bases

prader · #1 October 27th, 2001, 06:49 PM

Can Bases be moved by putting them in a transport ship with enough cargo space to hold it and "dropped off" at another planet? I'm scared to try it because I'm not sure it will let me since you can't launch mines, sats, and fighters into space without the corresponding Bay.

Phoenix-D · #2 October 27th, 2001, 07:03 PM

Ships and bases can carry cargo, and cannot be loaded into transports. Fighters, sats, weapons platforms, and mines can't carry cargo, and can.

Phoenix-D

prader · #3 October 27th, 2001, 07:14 PM

Can you use a tractor beam to "tug" it? Or is the only to get a base where you want it to build a mobile shipyard, move it to where you want the base, and then build the base?

Phoenix-D · #4 October 27th, 2001, 07:17 PM

Bases are immobile, period..only option is to build it where you want it.

Phoenix-D

prader · #5 October 27th, 2001, 07:28 PM

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....
How about a new component called "Base Bay", takes the corresponding amount of tonnage of the base to have and the base can't be carrying anything itself.

Seriously, thanks for straightening that out for me. Have a good one.

Suicide Junkie · #6 October 27th, 2001, 07:52 PM

I would prefer a tractor beam based system.

Use Component -> tractor beam
Target -> base/crippled ship

Both vehicles are then put into a fleet, and given the (weighted by mass) average of their speeds.

So a 500KT cruiser with a T-beam and 6MP, can tractor a 1500KT space station.
The final result is a ship/base fleet with 2MP available, for one turn only.
(500KT * 6MP + 1500KT *0MP)/2000KT = 2MP (Rounded Down! No escorts pulling starbases at 1MP)
An escort trying to pull the station would need 10MP just to move the base 1MP, but a Baseship would get half movement (since the two weigh the same)