What I Hate Most About SEIV

taterbill · #1 November 10th, 2001, 10:07 PM

How hard it is to get a fleet to capture a defended planet in a PBW game without glassing it first... Arrgh!

Master Belisarius · #2 November 11th, 2001, 07:39 AM

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Originally posted by taterbill:
How hard it is to get a fleet to capture a defended planet in a PBW game without glassing it first... Arrgh!

Not very hard... at least to me!

I have conquered a lot of small colonies.

vreln · #3 November 11th, 2001, 09:03 PM

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Originally posted by Master Belisarius:
Not very hard... at least to me! I have conquered a lot of small colonies.

Can you post a recipe, please? I've made it work, but neither reliably nor gracefully. Suppose I'm moving in with a fleet containing both attack ships and loaded troopships -- what orders do I give? What settings? Do I break up the fleet, or keep it together? Any pointers would be appreciated.

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Not *that* button!

jimbob55 · #4 November 11th, 2001, 11:13 PM

Tesco.... When you say sort.

On the planets screen, clicking the name of each column will sort the planets, change the filter to get access to the different things.

This works on ships, colonies, queues and probably some other windows.
It would be nice to be able to specify how everything is sorted but numerical stuff is sorted either from most to least or visa versa.

Master Belisarius · #5 November 12th, 2001, 01:05 AM

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Originally posted by vreln:
Can you post a recipe, please? I've made it work, but neither reliably nor gracefully. Suppose I'm moving in with a fleet containing both attack ships and loaded troopships -- what orders do I give? What settings? Do I break up the fleet, or keep it together? Any pointers would be appreciated.

If you change the fleet strategy to Capture Planet, and keep your ships withouth break the formation, usually you will take over the planets (first the attack ships try to kill the weapon platforms if exist, and then, the Troop trasnport drop the Troops.
Remember that the ship with the troops must be designed with the type "Troop Transport".

capnq · #6 November 12th, 2001, 04:30 AM

I can't think of anything I hate about SE IV, just a few annoyances. Most of them have already been mentioned in this thread.

The one that most immediately comes to mind (since I just saw it happen again today):

When ships are abandoned for lack of maintenance, sometimes a satellite group is abandoned, even though sats don't have any maintenance cost.

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Cap'n Q
My first SE IV mod! Hypermaze quadrant
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Slaughtermeyer · #7 November 12th, 2001, 05:51 AM

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Originally posted by Master Belisarius:
If you change the fleet strategy to Capture Planet, and keep your ships withouth break the formation, usually you will take over the planets (first the attack ships try to kill the weapon platforms if exist, and then, the Troop trasnport drop the Troops.
Remember that the ship with the troops must be designed with the type "Troop Transport".

If your fleet consists entirely of ships all of which have both troops and weapons, should you designate all of your ships as troop transports? Will their weapons be used against the planet's defenses?