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Spoo · #1 May 1st, 2004, 07:24 PM

Maybe I should rephrase my question (although the apparent misunderstanding has raised some good points).

Is it legal no have zero warpoints and zero system shields in my empire? It seems to me that this should be fine.

The reason I'm pressing the question is that I'd like to open a warp point to an empty system, ignite a star, and build a ring world. In the meantime, I'd like to close the warp point to my main cluster of systems. So long as I don't build a system shield in the lone system, and so long as my main cluster is accessable by other players, this should be legal, right? No system would be unreachable.

As I understand it, a "turteled" system is one that another player's ship can't ultimately access using either an existing trail of warp points originating in a non-turteled system or a warp opener, and the "no turteling rule" is that no system may be "turteled".

primitive · #2 May 1st, 2004, 07:31 PM

That would be perfectly fine. A dissconected system is not turteled in any way

Cirvol · #3 May 4th, 2004, 06:58 AM

damn, me again with missing a turn by 5 minutes...

i wish i could do these things faster when under a deadline

--- its just too easy to loose track of time while trying to finish a few more 'touchups'

in anycase, on the off chance rags catches this before anyone plays their turn - i uploaded my 'old' turn to the pbw site, in case u feel upto reexecuting it with my turn included

otherwise, its cool, its my own fault again and i dont want you to feel i'm trying to cause this thing to screw up... it really is a good game, which is why i keep finding myself loosing hours planing stuff and loosing track of time and missing turns

Ragnarok · #4 May 4th, 2004, 02:23 PM

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Originally posted by primitive:
That would be perfectly fine. A dissconected system is not turteled in any way

Yes, as long as it is accessable by means of a warp opener.

But I feel you cannot do this to alot of your systems as that would be abusing this ability.

Spoo · #5 May 5th, 2004, 12:36 PM

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But I feel you cannot do this to alot of your systems as that would be abusing this ability.

How so?

Karibu · #6 May 5th, 2004, 12:41 PM

My opinion is, that you can isolate all your systems if you want, but then you have to leave them without system shield. They are easy to access, though you have to open warp points on them. I would not do like this, but if someone wants to do it, IMO it is his/hers choise to do so.

Ragnarok · #7 May 5th, 2004, 04:15 PM

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Originally posted by Spoo:

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But I feel you cannot do this to alot of your systems as that would be abusing this ability.

How so?

I was thinking if you did that to every system you could in effect buy yourself alot of time and truely get as close to a full turtle as you coule without actually doing it.

But Karibu's comment below states how it would really be. It would be a pain to open a WP to every system but as long as you can get to every system then all is fine.

Therefore this is allowable as long as System Shields are not installed.