Secret of the 89 Movement point BaseShip

[Drake]

Using that came in very handy for me in the TG contest, when I needed to shuffle all my population to the ringworlds I was constructing. Each baseship could fill one RW to the 10B mark in one turn with that trick.

[rdouglass]

Haven't tried it and its a great idea, but will it work?? IIRC with SE3, your emergency movement components are used all at once - not selectively and / or in multiples and respective to class (resupply vs. movement). Also, they only gave you UP TO the maximum normal move. IOW, in your example, you would only get 9 normal movement then 9 emergency movement reguardless of how many emergency pods you have.

At least that's the way it worked in SE3 - any one know for sure 'bout SE4 or have you guys actually done this!! If it does work like that, I'd be for "fixing" that one....

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[jc173]

Yep, you activate the components one at a time so it works. Just be sure not to activate too many at once before moving there seems to be a limit of how many movement points over your max you can have.

[rdouglass]

Cool! I wasn't aware you can select individual emergency components...don't remember being able to do it. Sounds like a tough one not to use now....

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[Seawolf]

Contrats!,

They will now have to put in a limitation on the number of EP you can have. I think it should be equal to the number of engines you have.

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[Seawolf]

Man how many times was this posted.. Richard pelase remove thanks
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[AJC]

its been reported to mm. I think it should be limited to 1 component per ship- but maybe it could be made self repairing.