Tug of War - Progress Thread

[MegaTrain]

Originally posted by Gandalph:
If you analyze the ship, you will not get components as they are racial specific and analyzing the ship is not the object of the game.

Well, I meant disassembling and analyzing the Tug as a method of self-destruction. (I assumed that "fire-on" wouldn't work if it had indestructable components.) This might be a Last-ditch effort if the enemy fleet is closing in and you don't want them to capture the Tug ship from you.

We could probably just make a house rule against this, and beat up any player who uses this tactic.

I wonder if there is a way to prevent someone from retrofitting this ship? As the special components are racial techs, you couldn't make a design incorporating those elements, but you could still "gut" the ship by retrofitting it to "standard" components, then zip it back to base with movement 13 and claim a win (or fire on and destroy it, I suppose).

UNLESS you had a non-standard hull type that nobody else had access to. Then you could not design a ship to upgrade it to. Can you make a hull size a racial tech? (This is probably the easiest option).

If that wasn't possible, to prevent retrofitting you could just make a super-SMALL ship size, that way you couldn't retrofit anything onto it, even removing the special components. If it was size 5kt, for example, but still required a bridge, life support, and crew quarters, you'd never be able to make a new legal design. The special bridge would count as all three component types to make it work. You could even MOD movement-2 into the hull itself, and make the bridge the full size of the ship.

[ March 20, 2003, 15:35: Message edited by: MegaTrain ]