Worst "oops" moments in PBW?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Slick:
the overproduction causing ship abandonment

Yeah, and this one always gets me with Rads. I'm tooling along running with full mineral storage and running an excess and all my yards are pumping out ships at full capacity. I'm thinking, you are doing good Geo, no worries. Then "Construction could not be completed..." Waaa? I don't understand. Oh crud, I have no rads in storage and am running a 15K deficit this month. ARRGGHHH!

[ April 25, 2003, 01:49: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[tbontob]

tbontob consoles a sobbing Slick.

"I have done those too!" he says.

"All of them?" askes Slick.

"Well no, not all of them."

Slick breaks out in a fresh outbreak of sobbing.

"But give me time. Give me time!" exclaims tbontob.

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Slick I admire your openness and your ability to remember your mistakes.

About half of the ones you listed, I haven't made...yet.

If you had asked me to remember the mistakes I did make, I wouldn't have been able to remember half of the ones you listed.

[Taz-in-Space]

...I am NOT going to admit to how many of THOSE I've done...

But you did miss my favorite memory... the old stealth armor added to the satellite stack trick.

What? Some newbies don't know this one?

1)Take an aggressive AI. (In my case the Rage)
2)Defend the system WP with satellites.
3)research armor and get new stealth armor.
4)decide to add stealth armor to the satellites for the bonus

5)watch in HORROR as 50+ ship Rage fleet sails into system through now cloaked Satellite stack

Lost my second best system in that game!

[Slick]

Hey, I am secure enough to be able to laugh at myself when I do something dumb.

You want to really hear a dumb one? Minelayer orders:

(ship was initially carrying mines)
Load mines at planet X
Launch mines at warp Y
repeat

Many turns later, I realized that planet X was not the planet making mines.

Top that one, bozos.

Slick.

[ April 25, 2003, 02:17: Message edited by: Slick ]

[Taz-in-Space]

...Well there was the time I created those Psychic Pirates for P&N Mod. The idea was to add Alliegance Subverters to the Pirate arsenal...

Good idea but wrong Mod, Alliegence Subverters are NOT allowed to Pirates - I should have read the Pirate handbook I guess...

[Cyrien]

How about sending a fleet to wipe out a system and having a star destroyer going in and destroying the star just as your fleet arrives? BOOM *Cheers* *report comes in* *stunned silence* *sob*

Note: Fleet of 200 baseships.
Though that wasn't PBW...

[ April 25, 2003, 03:12: Message edited by: Cyrien ]

[Gryphin]

the introduction to the Allegiance Subverter. "Hey, he took my ship!!!!" In my first or second game, I didn't really know what psychic racial traits could do.

That was my first question to the Forum. I think dogscoff or dumbluck explained why the ship I so cleverly left blockading the Cua would not follow my orders. There were no ships in the area.

That was when I learned about weapons platorms also.