Help!! - Heat of battle!! Can't find the answer!

golf_prez · #1 June 28th, 2001, 06:20 PM

Good day all!

My PBEM enemy has employed cloaking devices! I have warp points that are populated with either Satellites or Mines.

Will the Sats or Mines "detect" a cloaked ship that passes through the Warp Point.
Will my mines explode even is he is cloaked? (and hopefully kill him

- I expect they would....
Will my Sats fire? - I would doubt they would....

Any quick answers would be appreciated, as the enemy is quickly and invisibly approaching !!!!

Taqwus · #2 June 28th, 2001, 06:41 PM

Mines don't care whether or not the target is cloaked -- they just go *boom*, unless the target fleet sweeps 'em.

Satellites, however, won't attack unless the ships are detected.

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

Possum · #3 June 28th, 2001, 06:47 PM

quote:
Originally posted by golf_prez:
Good day all!

My PBEM enemy has employed cloaking devices! I have warp points that are populated with either Satellites or Mines.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

We are the Bandar-log, the monkey people!

Ahem. I mean, Who, me?

Possum · #4 June 28th, 2001, 07:01 PM

http://www.penny-arcade.com/monkey.shtml

golf_prez · #5 June 30th, 2001, 07:02 PM

thanks very much for reply!!

quote:
Originally posted by Taqwus:
Mines don't care whether or not the target is cloaked -- they just go *boom*, unless the target fleet sweeps 'em.

Satellites, however, won't attack unless the ships are detected.

golf_prez · #6 June 30th, 2001, 07:04 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Possum:
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

We are the Bandar-log, the monkey people!

Ahem. I mean, Who, me?

ah Possum... I figured you or my other arch-enemy might come across this message... I am shaken, but not stirred.....

Possum · #7 June 30th, 2001, 10:42 PM

Heh, golf-prez, seriously. I have great respect and regard for you as an opponent. I'm only talking smack because you started it with that business about parading my dead body through the streets of your capital.

Try to see it from our point of view. There we were, happy, stupid, ignorant little monkeys. Lounging lazily in the sun, with nothing more important on our agenda than food, sex, picking fleas, and a long nap.

Then this big black obelisk dropped out of the sky and sang to us. And we began to change...

So we learned to build these ships, and wandered off among the stars. We found a new sun or two, and founded a few colonies. We were still happy monkeys.

Then, to the south, we met these cows. We weren't sure about them, they were so different, so we had a little parley with them, and agreed to just stay away from each other.

Then, in the far east, disaster struck, and the innocence of our racial childhood was torn away from us forever more.

Suddenly, a large fleet of ships appeared in the Dornot system, crewed by big, ugly, stinky, mean, red-skinned lizard creatures. And they attacked us, cruelly and without warning. Shredding our few small ships, they destroyed our new colony in Dornot, and then pressed further into our lands.

Three times we fought them, and three times we were driven from the field in panic-stricken rout. Finally, in the Mentocka system, they reached too far, and were destroyed by courage and dedicated point-defense.

Here ends Chapter One of the Monkeys' Tale
(story to be continued)

golf_prez · #8 July 1st, 2001, 07:10 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Possum:
Heh, golf-prez, seriously. I have great respect and regard for you as an opponent. I'm only talking smack because you started it with that business about parading my dead body through the streets of your capital.

Hi Possum, I love the "smack talk", its part of the game as well isn't it ?? I am having ALOT of fun with the Elimination Game we are in...