space stations

Atrocities · #1 February 10th, 2004, 04:28 AM

if you want your space stations to move, just build base space yard ships. Much better.

Ed Kolis · #2 February 10th, 2004, 04:30 AM

Unless the station's name is "Cygnus" and you are in a really crappy '70s sci-fi movie...

Baron Munchausen · #3 February 10th, 2004, 06:00 AM

Actually, there is a distinct limit to the amount of damage a blackhole does in the game. It's not 'absolute destruction' to be at the center of a black hole. It's only 5,000 points or so of damage. You can build a space station with god-awful amounts of organic armor that can sustain that. You just have to create it VERY quickly, like a single turn, or the space-yard ship won't survive to completion.

So a stunt with the 'upgrade' command is required to build an empty station and then upgrade in a single turn through several revisions to the necessary components to survive the black hole. Then the SYS can run away and let the station get sucked into the center of the system.

This is one of those 'imperial ego' projects like having a triple-molly.

[ February 10, 2004, 15:24: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

Fyron · #4 February 10th, 2004, 06:02 AM

No no no! You play P&N mod and make Battlemoons that can easily survive the black hole event horizon and repair themselves!

Kamog · #5 February 10th, 2004, 07:34 AM

I'll have to try that!

Have a station in the middle of the black hole, and watch the other ships get sucked in and destroyed... or wait, I guess it they're enemy then maybe combat happens first, and then they'll get destroyed.

Does the black hole do 5000 points of damage each turn? Well, if organic armor III has a damage resistance of 150 kT then you'll need 5000 / 150 = 33.3 (round up to 34) pieces of armor. Now, does organic armor repair itself completely each turn even when there's no combat? It did not used to, but I'm not sure if it does with the latest patch. If the armor doesn't automatically repair itself, we'll also need 5 repair bay III's.

Fyron · #6 February 10th, 2004, 07:38 AM

It think it only gets repaired after combat. Black holes do not do combat damage.

5 Repair Bay IIIs are a small price to pay for imperial ego!

[ February 10, 2004, 05:38: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Loser · #7 February 10th, 2004, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Unless the station's name is "Cygnus" and you are in a really crappy '70s sci-fi movie...

I believe that was a ship, not a station.
It wasn't that bad... for Disney... in the seventies.
The Novelization isn't bad either, and makes some more sense out of the ending.