Space Stations CAN Move!!

[Jeb]

Couldn't they also fix the bug by only allowing emergency propulsion pods on vessels that have at least one engine? After all, they're supposed to replenish movement points, which should be impossible on a base that doesn't have any in the first place.

I definitely agree about the need to do something to tone down the effectiveness of the move/fire/move strategy. In a way, it would be nice if a base's main weapons could opfire like point defence, but of course they you could distract them with heavily armored and shielded decoy ships before moving your main attackers into place. I suppose range bonuses for base weapons is maybe the best bet.

One other point: a couple of people have suggested making bases orbit planets. This wouldn't really help much, because presumably the path would be predictable and so wouldn't make it much harded to duck in and out of range. Seems like a waste of programming time to make them put that in.

[Instar]

Attack bases sound funny, but every midieval historian would tell you that castles were good defensive weapons, but also offensive too. (Figure that one out ) Actually, its kinda true.

[Taqwus]

Hm. If you build a starbase at another player's planet with a shipyard ship, does it start in orbit (suitable for, say, betrayal)? Or a distance off to the side?

Mobile bases hurling themselves through warp point after warp point... that's a VERY bizarre image. If they just changed 'SHIP/BASE' to 'SHIP' in Components.txt for that component, that should be OK...

------------------
-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[Jubala]

I once captured an enemy BS over one of their homeworlds. Great! Now I can use it against the very people it is supposed to protect and bLast them to pieces. Didn't work as it didn't start right next to the planet but a bit away with the rest of my ships and had such ****ty weapons it wasn't in range.

While on the subject of that BS, it was almost destroyed when I took it (had to wait for selfdestruct device to be destroyed) but I had alot of Frigates with repair bays with me so I repaired it in one turn. My question here: Frigates are small. Damaged ships supposedly go inside a repair bay. A BS is big. How do you get it inside a repair bay on a Frigate? More to the point, how do you get it inside several repair bays on several ships at the same time?

[This message has been edited by Jubala (edited 05 October 2000).]

[Cyrien]

Hrmm... I never saw it as going inside the repair bay... more as the repair bay being a bay used to store smaller craft that then launch and can repair things in the vicinity.

Just my take on things.

[This message has been edited by Cyrien (edited 05 October 2000).]

[Psitticine]

You know, an image I came up with once featured a repair vessel that attached, lamprey-like, to the outside of an enormous floating colony. I suppose you could also picture a repair bay as being the scaffolding and what-not to dock with the ship and repair it that way . . .

I know I've said this before but I think the number one thing I like about SEIV is the way you can tweak it into your own idea of things. You aren't as stuck with the same concept the designers had in every little detail.

[General Hawkwing]

I've viewed the repair bay to be somewhat like the U.S. space shuttles. Some work done inside, other work done through space walks. Only its done mostly with robotics, not crews.