Overall Strategy and Massive Confusion - Page 3

Skulky · #21 September 15th, 2002, 04:42 AM

bringing this badboy back from the graveyard, I love it when people name their ships in (Italian for example) and i just head on over to altavista and figure out what he lays his mines with and what he carries his fighters in, however he has several transports that are "somthing translator can't figure out" carrier and haven't done anything yet, they arn't troops because he has only glassed so far, and this is a non-gold so its not drones. but its fine, i really don't care, im about to kick his booty.

Any more notetaking suggetsions?

Fyron · #22 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 · #23 September 15th, 2002, 07:07 AM

Quote:

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 · #24 September 15th, 2002, 07:31 AM

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

Elowan · #25 September 15th, 2002, 08:40 AM

Quote:

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 · #26 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.

Elowan · #27 September 15th, 2002, 04:40 PM

Quote:

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 ]

Gryphin · #28 September 15th, 2002, 05:31 PM

Elowan,
The key to an "Aegis" design is a hull with:
Max speed,
Armor and Sheilds to fit your style
1 Beam weapon with a range no longer than that of the PDC
Fill in the rest with PDC.
With the Beam weapon it will stay in the fight.
I don't know what happens if that weapon gets knocked out.

Elowan · #29 September 15th, 2002, 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gryphin:
Elowan,
The key to an "Aegis" design is a hull with:
Max speed,
Armor and Sheilds to fit your style
1 Beam weapon with a range no longer than that of the PDC
Fill in the rest with PDC.
With the Beam weapon it will stay in the fight.
I don't know what happens if that weapon gets knocked out.

That's how I design by screening ships.

The Aegis is a missile cruiser so where do missiles fit into the design of which you speak?

[ September 15, 2002, 17:44: Message edited by: Elowan ]

Gryphin · #30 September 15th, 2002, 07:32 PM

Could be wrong name. I thought the Aegis crUsers were designed to cordinate Point defence through out the fleet as well as Guied Missles.
Call it an AA Ship