And The AI is ???

dmm · #1 October 9th, 2000, 05:00 PM

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Originally posted by Taqwus:
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The points on Time were basically wasted, as the two weapons granted seem rather broken -- they usually *repair* the enemy ship (They won't repair destroyed components, but the total damage taken drops almost to nothing...), so for instance 4 CAs with a speed advantage and loaded to the gills with Time weapons will NOT kill an unarmed colony ship. They may immobilize it, but they won't kill it apparently... so that was quite a few points that were misspent. Oops.

That's strange. I haven't had that problem at all. Playing a game right now with Time weapons, and they're awesome, totally devastating the opponents. (Plus, by this point, I've out-researched my opponents to death. I just simulated 3 of my LCs each armed with 6 Large-Mount Time Distortion Burst V, Sensors II, 3 Armor III, and +1 engines against 18 of my opponents' best destroyers armed with pitiful Antiproton Beam III, and I win every time, even in strategic mode.) Maybe you have your fleet strategy set to not hurt colony ships and you're doing strategic combat??

Cyrien · #2 October 9th, 2000, 05:49 PM

I have also not had any problems with Time Distortion tech. It is also one of my favs. Set that sucker up with Chrystaline and it kicks ***. Skip armor and 4x damage to shields along with chrystaline armor. I have never had problems with it. Even solo time tech is superb.

Taqwus · #3 October 9th, 2000, 07:38 PM

Did some more checking. One of the two Time weapons seemed to operate normally, but the other one (the one with longer range that fires every turn, IIRC) did the repair work. I usually placed 'em in that order, and the second one usually undid whatever damage the first one managed. Odd. In

That's in tactical, full manual control, as well as in strategic w/ Optimal Firing Range set. And my ships never ignore noncombatants. ;-)

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Rambie · #4 October 13th, 2000, 01:48 AM

There was bug that had some weapons repair your target. It's been fixed.

Rambie

Psitticine · #5 October 13th, 2000, 04:21 AM

"Private, for the Last time, stop bLasting our enemies with the Temporal Regression Field! I know you like to watch the smoke suck back into their hull breaches, but it makes it hard to win the battle!"