Warppoint = travel neutral zone?

[Dubrok]

Hi,

i observed something strange in my game(early - turn 20 or so). I saw that a new
ship(new race too, so no treaty) had entered one of the systems i had ships in.
nothing special about that, but: in the same turn i sent a ship through the same warppoint in the opposite direction - and nothing happened, no fight?!
it seemed like both ships had entered the warppoint at the same time from the opposite directions and got through unnoticed.
My ship undamaged in his system and his ship in my system undamaged.

I used the replay function to be sure it was the same turn they moved through the warppoint: they did.

Is this a bug or a feature?

(unmodded 1.91 game pbw)

Greetings, Dubrok

P.S.: i am happy my ship wasn't engaged, was a colonizer :-) and he got an armed ship.

[geoschmo]

It's just a function of how the game mechanic works. The same thing happens if two ships are sitting in side by side sectors within a system. Doesn't have to be at a warp point. If each gets orders to move to the other guys sector and the ships have the same speed, they will pass like ships in the night.

If one ship is faster then the other though, combat will occur.

[ April 23, 2004, 14:35: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Slynky]

Don't quote me but doesn't combat occur on every 5th day (or 6th day) of the month? And if ships aren't in the same sector on that "combat" day, they just don't fight?

[Dubrok]

you mean it can occur that two big fleets sitting on each side of a warppoint could miss each other if they are moving through it the same time?
that would be surprising hehe.

[geoschmo]

If each fleet has the same speed, yes.

[Yef]

That's kind of wierd, isn't it?