Worst "oops" moments in PBW?

Taz-in-Space · #1 April 25th, 2003, 02:59 AM

...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 · #2 April 25th, 2003, 03:17 AM

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 · #3 April 25th, 2003, 03:25 AM

...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 · #4 April 25th, 2003, 04:12 AM

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 · #5 April 25th, 2003, 04:48 AM

Quote:

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.

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 April 25th, 2003, 07:01 AM

colinizer errors, although never empty colonizers. mostle rock compenent, gas ship or rock ship, sent to ice planet.

Gandalph · #7 April 26th, 2003, 12:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by 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.

Minelayer orders:

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

Many turns later, when I checked the wp and no mines were there, I realized that the mine layer ship was full of cargo bays, not mine laying components. Back to shipyard, dump mines cause planet could not carry them all, retro to NEW BETTER design and start again, only to have fleet come through unprotected wp and glass the freshly retro'ed mine layer.