Breaking formation - Page 2

Grandpa Kim · #11 November 28th, 2002, 02:25 AM

[quote]Originally posted by Stone Mill:

Quote:

Remember, you can retrofit captured ships to a design you have control over. Always travel with a spaceyard handy.

Wow! This I did not know! Gotta try it next opportunity.

Kim

Stone Mill · #12 November 28th, 2002, 02:43 AM

Glad you like the idea...

You don't even have to wait for repairs to be done... (whoops, that's secret info).

Anyway, don't get TOO excited. If the ship has special racial tech components (or any advanced tech components) your race does not posess, they will be lost in the retrofit.

Baron Grazic · #13 November 28th, 2002, 04:08 AM

A 'Break Formation' Strategy should be including in the standard Strategies. It would save people creating the strategy themselves.

What would be a nice idea is the ability to 'Copy' an Enemies Design.
It would save time in redesigning a Captured ship that you wanted to retro-fit. It would also allow you to retro-fit Racial ships that you can't repair.

IE. I capture I Crystal Ship, the ship has low-end engines with Crystal Armor. I go to the Enemy Design window, say Copy, upgrade the the Engines, save the new design and retro-fit the captured ship to the new design and repair the enginees.

I still wouldn't be able to build the ship or repair the Crystal Armour if they get destroyed, but now you could keep the ship up-to-date with the other technology.

[ November 28, 2002, 02:10: Message edited by: Baron Grazic ]

PvK · #14 November 28th, 2002, 04:13 AM

Yes Baron G, definitely.

By the way, you do not need to rebuild a captured ship to change its strategy. You can put it in a fleet whose strategy is something that does not break formation, and it will use the fleet strategy.

PvK

Baron Grazic · #15 November 28th, 2002, 04:22 AM

Pvk, Yes to which one?
Break Formation by default, or Copy Enemy Designs, or both?

capnq · #16 November 28th, 2002, 08:29 AM

Quote:

A 'Break Formation' Strategy should be including in the standard Strategies.

All the standard strategies have a Formation tab to set this on; why do you think it should be a separate strategy?

Taera · #17 November 30th, 2002, 01:26 AM

interesting thing. i've never tried formation breaking before. works fine, though on non-gold ships still stick to their fleet strategy.

jimbob · #18 November 30th, 2002, 01:29 AM

They do? I thought they broke formation in the Last few games I've been playing...

Taera · #19 November 30th, 2002, 03:21 AM

no, they break formation, they just keep the fleet strategy for targeting.