Boarding and Ramming Targets

[Fyron]

I hardly ever see that happen. Picking a starting formation that has lots of spaces in it, such as the V shaped one, typically eliminates the problem for me. 50 some planets conquered in one game, and the problem you speak of only happened once, when I was using the Phalanx formation.

[Slick]

I stand by my recommendation. If the number of ships is large, they will crowd around the planet in trying to destroy the WP's. The planet doesn't even have to be surrounded before the TT get's stuck. If the side of the planet that the TT approaches from is blocked, the TT gets stuck and the initial formation is irrelevent.

Slick.

[Fyron]

I know what you are trying to say, but it happens so rarely in my experience that it is not an issue. Breaking formation is still IMO a better idea.

[dumbluck]

Oops. Fyron is correct on this one. I must have gotten my wires crossed. It happens occasionally on older, obsolete models such as myself, particularly if regular maintenance is neglected.

[teal]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
I say that the ships of yours are run by people, who wants to remembered.
Sitting there at the helm they see their orders;
"Nearest / Nearest / Nearest / Nearest", - No way ! they exclaim and heads for the juicy target instead.

If you start writing songs about the crews of the ships that ram the small enemy ships you might see a difference. Try it!

1) They're psycho people 'cause I said so in the race description.

2) Where is this "compose song" button? I can't seem to find it I would use it if I could find it!

Let's not forget my original question here. Any way to alter the targeting of ramming vessels (i.e. what the ramming vessel wants to ram, not what it shoots at)? I am starting to think that the answer must be no...

[Edit to answer question: The ships are not in a fleet. Most of this testing has been done in the simulator. Is it perhaps different in "real" life?]

[ May 26, 2003, 09:39: Message edited by: teal ]

[Zarix]

The problem seems to be that the ramming ship doesn't change its target. It just decides to ram one ship and even if a better target comes near it still tries to ram the original target.

Same problem is much worse with drones. Drones should always ram the nearest target because otherwise point defence will take them out in no time. I stopped using drones when I saw that just a few ships can destroy huge amount of drones if you have bad luck and the drones decide to attack a bad target.

[PvK]

I think ramming does use the targetting orders to determine what to ram. However it doesn't work exactly the same way. Not sure what the whole story is.

Maybe I'm wrong, though.

PvK

[ May 27, 2003, 04:23: Message edited by: PvK ]