Overall Strategy and Massive Confusion

Fyron · #1 September 15th, 2002, 06:43 AM

Note-taking? You guys are crazy!

j/k

I name all my ships individually, with completely random names.

I've seen one player name ships like this:

Killer VII - is a warship
Killer VIl - minesweeper
Killer VlI - supply ship

All of these names (unfortunately) look identical in the list where the ships in a sector are displayed, so you cannot tell at a glance how many warships and support ships are in a fleet. If you click on a ship, the font used for the design name is different, so you can tell what the actual name is that way, but it is longer and more complicated than simply looking at all the ships in 1 sector at a time.

Elowan · #2 September 15th, 2002, 07:07 AM

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
Frigate with Point Defence Cannons and Speed 6, (not that I would ever build such a usless thing).

Why do you say that this is useless?

Fyron · #3 September 15th, 2002, 07:31 AM

Because it has no weapons, so it will run to the corner in strategic combat.

Elowan · #4 September 15th, 2002, 08:40 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Because it has no weapons, so it will run to the corner in strategic combat.

So - give it a bean shooter and set strat.

Fyron · #5 September 15th, 2002, 08:42 AM

Yeah, and then it is not the ship Gryphin had described.

That type of ship is useful; the one with all PDCs is not.

Gryphin · #6 September 16th, 2002, 01:40 AM

Elowan,
Fyron is correct about why my FF PDC 6 is useless. I have to admit at the time I did not know that. It was an attempt to feed GT miss information.

Elowan · #7 September 15th, 2002, 04:40 PM

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
Elowan,
Fyron is correct about why my FF PDC 6 is useless. I have to admit at the time I did not know that.

Hmmm - bummer because a heavily PDC'ed ship would be useful vs missiles and fighters - or so I thought. It would seem that this is not correct.

So - I'm back to my original plan to add PDC and even a cannon or two to my missile ships. With a cannon on a MS - it can 1) fight back whilst re-loading missiles, 2) not run away whilst doing same. But since I hardly ever fight using Strategic ...

Beware the 'wandering cow' when setting traps for the unwary.

[ September 15, 2002, 15:41: Message edited by: Elowan ]