Are homeplanets affected by high/catastrophic events?

[Fyron]

Is it still true there is no protection what so ever; from the Star Destroyed Event?

Absolutely!

[PsychoTechFreak]

Originally posted by JLS:
PTF, what about High events, what are your thoughts here as it effects the HW?

Is it still true there is no protection what so ever; from the Star Destroyed Event?

Aaron did not mention high events directly, but indirectly as an affirmation to my observations. In simultaneous I have seen no high and catastrophic events effects at (first) HW, never, even no system events which could destroy the 1st HW. That's what he affirmed positively.

And yes, if the Star Destroyed event is a high or catastrophic event then it will never happen in 1st HW systems, but it is save just under simultaneous movement. Fyron, I guess what you might have seen has happened in turn based.

EDIT: What I am not quite sure about is if this goes for the AI also, because he talked about the players HW.

Its true for both Simultaneous and Turn-Based games. A players' homeworld
(or their first homeworld) is immune from catastophic events. We had this
in for early Versions of the game but took it out. It was too devestating
to have your home planet obliterated by an event.

Aaron

I wrote:
> Hi MM,
> Extensive tests have shown that the first homeplanet (in a multipl
> e planet start game the one which is displayed first) seems to be excluded
> from high and catastrophic events. The same goes for the system events whic
> h could affect this planet (like star destroyed). But the above observation
> has been proved (or at least I think so) just for simultaneous movement, t
> he first homeplanet would be not save under turn based movement.
> > Could
> you shed some light on this topic, please? It is a very important question
> for Proportions and AICampaign based games, because the homeplanets play a
> essential role there.

[ October 26, 2003, 19:38: Message edited by: PsychoTechFreak ]

[JLS]

Originally posted by PsychoTechFreak:
Aaron did not mention high events directly, but indirectly as an affirmation to my observations. In simultaneous I have seen no high and catastrophic events effects at (first) HW
What I am not quite sure about is if this goes for the AI also, because he talked about the players HW. [/QB]

Agreed and I believe this High/Cat HW protection also applies to the AI as well

[PsychoTechFreak]

I have inserted the original mail into my Last post, just in case of my language ability could have failed on this important issue.

[PsychoTechFreak]

I assume that captured 1st HWs would be not protected by this rule, because they are nobodies 1st HW any more. So, if you see a HW exploding, next question would be if it has been a captured one.
What happens if a captured HW would be taken back by the origin race? I don't think so.

[Fyron]

Once the HW changes control (either to another race or being glassed, under no control), it loses HW status. It can still have the "homeworld" colony type, but that is meaningless.

[JLS]

That is a good question.

If one was to capture another Races Home World and then wanted to [set colony type] to a Mining Colony from Home World thru [f5 Colonies menu], would se4 allow this?