System evacuation

ZeroAdunn · #1 December 11th, 2003, 01:40 AM

I have played a number of games where a inhabited systems star was going to explode, some of the more memorable ones:

I once played a game of SEIII where the map wound up being a squid shaped galaxy, with one system in the center and about six arms going off on each side. No steller manip so the system was quite valuable as anyone who had it pretty much controlled the universe. Well, I had taken the system, and as this was the only assaultable system in my empire I had almost all of my forces there gaurding the warp points. Not to mention my primary shipyards. Then boom, by by fleet. (did they give warnings in SEIII? I remember I had no idea it was gowing to blow before it happened)

However, my most memorable was when my home system was going to blow, in a proportions game! This was early proportions, where the home planet was even more valuable then it is in current, and boy, was that going to be a huge loss. (at more than 75% of my empires production) what made it even worse was, I was just barely getting by with my current resource production. Well, I flooded the system with transports (this was proportions so I had like 20-30 of them) emptied out all my carries, refitted hordes of fighting ships, and began running hordes of ships in and out of the system. I left behind like half my population, and lost about 10 ships and three starbases in the explosion. I survived (it was a game against the AI) but just barely. The wars in next few years were fairly devestating.

Narratio · #2 December 11th, 2003, 05:15 AM

I had one about 40 turns into a game once. There I was, a dozen systems explored, 3 AI races found, 3 other systems started colonization and my home system star was suddenly going to go bang.

After crying in my beer and sticking more pins in my "Aaron Hall Voodoo Doll (From Aesyrko... for people who care. Pins not provided) I built colony ships and transports and tried to get as much out as possible. Saved about 20%, the rest of the little squids crisped. Started dropping population on to the newly selected home-planet-to-be and WHAM! Planet instability!!! So we upped and moved again. Such things (apart from wearing out my voodoo doll) help develop moral fibre.

President_Elect_Shang · #3 December 11th, 2003, 07:26 AM

It happened to me once in SE3. The quadrant was shaped so that it was roughly split between me and my AI opponent. One system that I held was the key system with three warp points leading back to the right (all my systems) and one leading into the AI�s. I had built up four bases and had two planets populated with massive industry in orbit. I had even taken the time to shuttle in the max populations. Then I got the warning, yes it did warn you. I used it to my advantage though. I started a fight with the AI to provoke them into invading, as if they needed provoking right? The end result; over half the populations of both planets lost, all bases, and a small fleet I left to tempt the invading force further into the system. It worked pretty well as when I counter attacked they had few defenses and I swept about a quarter of their systems before the AI could churn out enough ships to stop me.

Cipher7071 · #4 December 12th, 2003, 04:22 PM

I actually had this happen to me twice in one game. It was in an ancient quadrant. Fortunately, the first time was early, and I had just managed to get a decent foothold in a nearby system when I got the message. I escaped that system with minimal losses. The second time I was in the process of creating planets in a system with a better sort of star when I got the message again. Apparently the entire quadrant was in upheaval, because I managed to close myself off before the competition could eliminate me, licked my wounds and survived.

gregebowman · #5 December 12th, 2003, 11:08 PM

I'm curious. When you people start a new game, what do you set as your events selection? I don't ever recall getting this message. I think the most recent disaster I had was a plague, and I still hadn't researched biology at the time.

Cyrien · #6 December 12th, 2003, 11:13 PM

In order to get this you have to have the highest level of even severity enabled. I confess that in most of my recent games I have events either off or at an event severity that doesn't allow for stars to go nova on you.

If you really want to get the event on anything but a few random incidents you should turn event frequency up to a higher level as well.

TerranC · #7 December 13th, 2003, 04:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by gregebowman:
I'm curious. When you people start a new game, what do you set as your events selection? I don't ever recall getting this message. I think the most recent disaster I had was a plague, and I still hadn't researched biology at the time.

Always at Catastrophic.

I like events