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Old August 26th, 2001, 01:36 AM

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Default Just discovered: Emergency Populsion Pack

I cannot figured out why I never thought of this... The emergency populsion pack V is a disposible device that gives you once-off 5 extra movement points and must be repaired for the next use, but the bulk of my transports are multi-purposes ships with a repair bay on them, so they can self-repair. Now why not fit an emergency populsion pack on them? I'm at max tech and a populsion expert, so their normal speed is 12, plus an EPP V makes 17!! WOW!!

Even more amazing, there is an engineering baseship with a spaceyard and 4 repair bays in all of my fleets. What if I fit a EEP V on each of my ships? That makes a 14 speed fleet!


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Default Re: Just discovered: Emergency Populsion Pack

But as I recall, you can't use emergency propolsion on an entire fleet; you have to take the ships out of the fleet and select it for each. Can be a pain if you have lots of ships.

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Old August 25th, 2001, 05:10 PM

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Default Re: Just discovered: Emergency Populsion Pack

You are correnct Spoo.

We should add that to the wish list. That if every ship has the same ability you should be able to use it for the fleet.

I use the em props alot. I will save alot of ships when their limping home. I also like to put them on my 'crippler cruisers' which hunt in packs of 4 after big battles looking for wounded ships.

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Default Re: Just discovered: Emergency Populsion Pack

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But as I recall, you can't use emergency propolsion on an entire fleet


At least I can have my 17 speed Auxiliaries! They rarely travel in fleets anyway.
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Default Re: Just discovered: Emergency Populsion Pack

And, of course, you can put multiple emergency propulsion components on ships so if you have a baseship you can travel across the galaxy in one turn.

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Default Re: Just discovered: Emergency Populsion Pack

Only one is allowed per ship.
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