Blockade strategy?

[Parasite]

Originally posted by DavidG:
If anyone has manage to blockade a planet without every single ship with indivitual 'don't hurt me' orders. (or a similar orders not to fire on planets) I'd like to know about it.
Ships in a fleet with "don't hurt me" orders do not obey them despite being told to stay in formation. It is a bug.
Just as well blockading is for woosies. Nuke it man!

I believe I have had fleets set to "Maximum Range", and I set this to not attack planets. The ships in the fleet did not attack the planet. I would have to check to be sure because the individual ship orders may have also been set to MR, so they could have been following that too.

[Fyron]

Some of the stratagies in USM were written before the Last patch (or maybe a few patches ago) when ships that broke formation still followed the fleet stratagy. I think that I prefered it that way, because ships are often most effective when they are not locked in a formation, and you probably want to determine stratagies for a FLEET rather than an entire class of ships.

Ships have always followed their design strategy instead of the fleet strategy when breaking formation.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Ships have always followed their design strategy instead of the fleet strategy when breaking formation.

I think you are incorrect there. I think that is what people thought was supposed to happen, but prior to 1.67 patch it did not work right or something. Hence this entry in the history.txt file:

code:

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Version 1.58:

10. Fixed   - If a combat piece was in a fleet it would always use the fleet strategy,

              even if it had broken formation.

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I believe that's what Puke was refering to.

[Asmala]

How can I destroy a planet from the maximum weapons range? Even if I select Maximum weapon range for tactic the ship still goes near the planet. It's really annoying when you have better range than weapon platforms.

[Alneyan]

Originally posted by Asmala:
How can I destroy a planet from the maximum weapons range? Even if I select Maximum weapon range for tactic the ship still goes near the planet. It's really annoying when you have better range than weapon platforms.

I have the opposite problem, as my missile ships tend to attack the planet from too far. They launch their missiles at say, range 8, but the seeker does no damage on the planet. Strange.
I tried to destroy a planet from afar, but my ships closed in with the planet as well. Don't ask me why though. (They should not close in, as they will always hit or so even from range eight, given the planet penalties to defence)

[SpaceBadger]

Originally posted by Alneyan:
I have the opposite problem, as my missile ships tend to attack the planet from too far. They launch their missiles at say, range 8, but the seeker does no damage on the planet

Are you sure they are doing no damage? I have noticed that sometimes my seekers hit the planet, and there is no explosion so it looks like no damage, but they still manage to destroy the defending weapon platforms. Not sure why this is, haven't really made note of when/why it seems to happen.

SpaceBadger

[Alneyan]

Originally posted by SpaceBadger:
Are you sure they are doing no damage? I have noticed that sometimes my seekers hit the planet, and there is no explosion so it looks like no damage, but they still manage to destroy the defending weapon platforms. Not sure why this is, haven't really made note of when/why it seems to happen.

SpaceBadger

I am sure no damage was done during the whole combat, quite a few times actually. Planets with two weapon-platforms and 20 million settlers were impossible to take down from afar with missiles and Maximal Range. And yes, there were no point-defense on these platforms. Don't ask. I seem to recall there was actually an explosion, but on the "outside" part of the planet. (The eight squares on the border, not the eight inward squares)

[ November 19, 2003, 21:09: Message edited by: Alneyan ]