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November 1st, 2002, 06:30 AM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
How many spots can you have now?
And why can't we have the leader spot taken over by 1 and then by 2 or 3 and so forth?
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November 1st, 2002, 06:42 AM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
If the leader is destroyed, then I think the next available ship in the list is made the new leader.
You can have up to 100 ship slots in a formation now.
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November 1st, 2002, 07:09 AM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
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Originally posted by oleg:
IMHO, the best formation is "compact" - it is included in TDM formations file.
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I agree I've used this one and it's worked the great for me.
Is there a way to add your own formations in PBW?
Also it would be great to assign ships to spots in a formation - hopefully that will be added someday. |
November 1st, 2002, 07:19 AM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
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Is there a way to add your own formations in PBW?
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You could create a mod that has a modded formations file, and play the game with that. But unfortunately you can not add any formations from within the game. |
November 1st, 2002, 08:58 PM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
The Gold CD Extras include Raynor's Formation Editor, to help you mod the Formations.txt file.
Which formation is "best" depends on your preferred fighting style and both sides' ship designs, so it's hard to make recommendations.
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November 1st, 2002, 09:16 PM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
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[QB]The Gold CD Extras include Raynor's Formation Editor, to help you mod the Formations.txt file.
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IIRC Rayonor's editor only allow's up to 30 positions. The latest Se4 patch's will allow up to 100 positions in your formations, so Raynor's editor is a little obsolete.
I recommend DavidG's SE4Modder though. It has a formation file editor that you cna add the full 100 positions with.
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November 2nd, 2002, 12:19 AM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
I no longer have one.
I used to use them all the time but with games now...fleets are greater than 50 so i get a nice group of ships together and the whole bottom of the combat screen is filled up with ships equally spaced apart. Not very good for capturing planets... As the planet is destroyed before you capture ships can get to it.
Real Pain...
I think this is one area that needs to be cleaned up...
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