Worst "oops" moments in PBW?

[Gryphin]

the introduction to the Allegiance Subverter. "Hey, he took my ship!!!!" In my first or second game, I didn't really know what psychic racial traits could do.

That was my first question to the Forum. I think dogscoff or dumbluck explained why the ship I so cleverly left blockading the Cua would not follow my orders. There were no ships in the area.

That was when I learned about weapons platorms also.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

colinizer errors, although never empty colonizers. mostle rock compenent, gas ship or rock ship, sent to ice planet.

[Gandalph]

Originally posted by Slick:
Hey, I am secure enough to be able to laugh at myself when I do something dumb.

You want to really hear a dumb one? Minelayer orders:

(ship was initially carrying mines)
Load mines at planet X
Launch mines at warp Y
repeat

Many turns later, I realized that planet X was not the planet making mines.

Top that one, bozos.

Slick.

Minelayer orders:

(ship was initially carrying mines)
Load mines at planet X
Launch mines at warp Y
repeat

Many turns later, when I checked the wp and no mines were there, I realized that the mine layer ship was full of cargo bays, not mine laying components. Back to shipyard, dump mines cause planet could not carry them all, retro to NEW BETTER design and start again, only to have fleet come through unprotected wp and glass the freshly retro'ed mine layer.

[Slick]

You know... It isn't the act itself and its impact on the game that is so infuriating. It is the fact that you know that you personally , without help of any kind, were able to come up with such an asinine predicament. The same predicament which you would ridicule if it happened to someone else, and the worst part is that you don't see the AI making these mistakes.

Slick.

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Slick:
You know... It isn't the act itself and its impact on the game that is so infuriating. It is the fact that you know that you personally , without help of any kind, were able to come up with such an asinine predicament. The same predicament which you would ridicule if it happened to someone else, and the worst part is that you don't see the AI making these mistakes.

Slick.

Now, Slick, I've done just about all of the ones in your extensive list. And I've read, I think, all the boo-boos listed here. But, I haven't read this one:

You click on a fleet to see where it's headed (I always have "movement lines" turned on). Look around a bit, click on a few systems here and there. THEN, you forget you have that fleet selected, THINK you have another selected and say to yourself, "Ahhh, THIS fleet needs to move to this warp hole." and click the "move to" order and then the warp hole. Of course, you see next turn that you had the wrong fleet selected and it's (usually) moving exactly in the wrong direction.

[Fyron]

So I have planet with Launch Mines and then Repeat Orders to save on micromanagement. Works great. But then, I build a resource converter there. I convert some resources, no problem. Next round, I give another conVersion order. Problem is, the first one is still there from repeat build. No wonder why I was having resource problems!

[tbontob]

Slick, I agree with you.

We "know" we should know better and still we made the mistake.

Maybe what we are doing now is a form of penance not unlike donning a hair shirt and flogging ourselves around time square in medieval times.