warp point opening technology - How?

Hunkpapa · #1 April 17th, 2003, 03:41 PM

Who really cares about how many stars you get?

dogscoff · #2 April 17th, 2003, 03:44 PM

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Who really cares about how many stars you get?

Not many people do care until they get a low rating. The reason it's important here though is taht it's not very welcoming for a newbie to come here asking for help and be branded a "one-star" for no reason at all.

primitive · #3 April 17th, 2003, 04:57 PM

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Originally posted by tobiasds:
Thanks for all the good answers and just curious how the rating system works. Does someone who rates you get to remain anonymous?

Yes, the name of the moron remain hidden.

BTW:
Welcome to the forum

FadingSuns · #4 April 17th, 2003, 05:00 PM

Primitive, thanks for addressing that star issue. I was ticked about that as well because it gives the greatest board on the web a bad first impression.

Slick · #5 April 17th, 2003, 05:11 PM

Yeah, what a jerk. I had my rating lowered very recently... thankfully not enough to make me lose a star, though. I haven't participated in any controversial discussions in a long time either; so I don't know what prompted that. Probably a disgruntled child.

New people: welcome to the board! *hands out a coupla fivers*

Slick.

Xaren Hypr · #6 April 17th, 2003, 05:29 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Well thats why you should have a fleet with the WP Opener. Send it in to glass their system if need be!

I did have a fleet ready, but by a weird twist of fate (physics?) my WP opened onto an existing one...and this one was heavily mined

. *sigh*

I didn't lose my whole fleet, but it was one nasty surprise...live an learn

.

BTW, does anyone know if it is somehow possible to make WP bases? The component type says ship/base, but when I tried to use a set of paired WP comps (open/close) that I had put on a base I got a message stating that I had no movement points left. Is there any way around this in the unmodded game?

dogscoff · #7 April 17th, 2003, 05:36 PM

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BTW, does anyone know if it is somehow possible to make WP bases? The component type says ship/base, but when I tried to use a set of paired WP comps (open/close) that I had put on a base I got a message stating that I had no movement points left. Is there any way around this in the unmodded game?

Not now, no. Back in early Versions (about 1.27 I think) you used to be able to give movement points to bases using emergency movement pods, and so allow them to use stellar manip. It got patched out.

You could mod the game to do it, by using zero-movement ship hulls as bases. But that presents problems of its own...