Rookie Mistakes

[Jmenschenfresser]

Which reminds me to ask.

Has anyone ever tried to drop troops on a fully loaded sphereworld? How many milita would there be, and is it really possibly to capture one given stock components? How many troops would that take? Might be quicker to build yourself a sphereworld than take one.

[geoschmo]

I think the tactic to taking a sphereworld intact would be several fully loaded transports. And hope your troops can survive the ten rounds of combat needed to allow the next transport to drop reinforments. I think as long as the combat doesn't come to a conclusion the militia dont' return to full strength. So if you keep dropping reinforcments you should eventually overwhelme them.

Geoschmo

[capnq]

My most frequent silly mistake is giving a ship or fleet new orders without clearing its previous Sentry orders first.

[Purna]

The one that keeps biting me is the "repeat" order on a build queue, when I change from building all the mines I can to some kind of facilities or ships. I'd really like an option to clear the "repeat" order whenever the first queue item changes.

[oleg]

I agree about "repeat". It would be better if SE goes through whole order and then cycles back. This way one can program a planet to build mines, fighters, troops, ships, etc. without a need to revisit it almost every other turn !

[ August 29, 2002, 19:18: Message edited by: oleg ]

[TerranC]

At the start of the game, when I'm not focused, I do either one of two things:

Forget to start researching
Forget to build anything

it cost me a game.

On the sphearworld:

Militia: 3200 for 64 billion
Number of troops needed to take sphearworld in one fell swoop: 460 Large Troops equipped with 2 sheild generators and 3-4 ground cannons

Causes an access violation.

[geoschmo]

Terran, have you tested that recently for access violations. I think some of those got fixed with the latest patch.

You could get 460 troopers on a single large transport with cargo III's I think.

Geo