Unusual behaviour

tbontob · #1 May 30th, 2003, 01:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dogscoff:
A few possibilities, if it's definitely not mines:

-Launching cloaked satellites.
-Long range scanners to view any passing ships of yours.
-the colonisers are armed with planetary napalm, and he's waiting for the right moment to declare, glass and re-colonise.
-His ships are threatened by a mutual enemy, and he's hiding behind your planetary defences.

Thanks dogscoff for you input.

Detective work more or less eliminates cloaked satelites with or without long range scanners.

After a turn or two he moves away from the planet. Never used planetary napalm myself, but as far as I know it cannot be left in orbit (must be fired from the ship).

Threatened by a mutual enemy is a definite possiblity. Only problem is the mutual enemies are not around and his colony ships go out of their way to park on my planets where there are no colonizable planets at all. In doing so, he is wasting valuable time and resources (maintenance and loss of potential earning power). And why stay the extra turn?

Maybe he is on drugs.

If so, he must be on a long trip as this has occurred over a number of turns.

Fyron · #2 May 30th, 2003, 01:26 AM

It is possible he is just trying to confuse the heck out of you, which seems to be working if that is his goal.

Narrew · #3 May 30th, 2003, 01:50 AM

I like Fyrons thought.

At first I thought you were talking about me, then I took my anti-paranoid medicine and realized you were not *whew*.

Sounds like a neat idea though. Bagdad Bob is in control of his Colony Ships.

Nodachi · #4 May 30th, 2003, 01:57 AM

It could just be that he sent the ships before you colonised the worlds and doesn't realise you got them until he gets the unable to colonise message.

Fyron · #5 May 30th, 2003, 02:05 AM

Hey Nod, stop never signing on IRC or MSN.

tbontob · #6 May 30th, 2003, 02:25 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
It is possible he is just trying to confuse the heck out of you, which seems to be working if that is his goal.

Fyron, that is a understatement!

If that was his purpose, he certainly succeeded!

I am absolutely confused.

Or another variation on your thought, "Let's do something dumb to confuse him. Then he'll focus so much on it, he'll neglect to make the moves he should be making!"

EDIT: Nodachi, that is a possibility. Only thing is that I have colonized these planets for two years.

RE-EDIT Primitive missed your post. Yeh, maybe he is using the colonization minister. Haven't used them myself. But dumb as they are, wouldn't they know a colonized planet from an uncolonized one?

[ May 30, 2003, 01:34: Message edited by: tbontob ]

PvK · #7 May 30th, 2003, 02:47 AM

My first thought was either he or his colonization minister thought they were uncolonized at one point (for instance, when he didn't have a current view of your system), gave them movement orders, and then forgot about them. He didn't even notice for a turn or two until after they had been lounging there. This could happen if he had some colony ships sitting without orders, and then he missed a turn, so the AI took over, the colony minister looked at the mapped-but-unseen system and saw what looked like empty planets, and gave orders to his colony ships to go there, which he didn't even realize until a turn after they had been sitting there. That seems the most probable case.

PvK