Worst "oops" moments in PBW?

[cybersol]

First PBW Game Ever:
Start next to a blackhole system full of damaging warp points. No problem, I'll just research armor and ship construction to LC, then send LC based colony ships with 10 Armor III's through. After about a year of preparation, send the colony ships through. Opps, massive death How did that happen You mean damaging warp points stop the entire move order queue and the exit warp point is 2 spaces from the center. Guess I should have spent all that time on stellar manipulation instead. Having read the FAQ extensively, I was wondering why this wasn't mentioned, when low and behold!

From the FAQ:
5.10.6 Q Is there any way to tell ships not to clear orders when go through damaging warp point? It's very annoying when there is black hole on the other side of the warp point and the warp point is two squares away from black hole... You can guess what happens, it's impossible to go through that system.
A(Baron Munchausen): There is a game setting to not clear orders when encountering enemy ships but I don't know of any setting for getting damaged by 'terrain' features. I think you are stuck with this one.

Learn something new everyday! Some are more frustrating than others though.

[PvK]

Hmm, but the damage doesn't always occur, right? So you just need to have enough volunteers...

[Ragnarok]

Hmm, I've played many PBW games and I just made a mistake. Twice. When typing out Messages or issuing orders to ships, I have confused 2 different games now. It didn't hurt my empire much or anything but it did set me back a bit as far as ship orders go. As for the communication mishap, nothing bad came of that so I'm thankful.

[Karibu]

HAH!! I have committed many of those mistakes In my first PBW game I didin't research mines for I wasn't aware that I could launch them from planet directly without minelayers. My empire got concuered in 2 turns once my opponent discovered that. You only need 1 troop transport above every planet. Needless to say I didin't have troops either...

Once I sent a strict demand to one empire to abandon colonies in one particular system. Unfortunately it was the wrong empire. Fortunately it did not cause any consequences.

Once I sent my whole fleet (all available ships, about 50 of them) to meet a surprise attack of one another empire in other side of the galaxy. Once my fleet was there fighting, other opponent opened a warp point drectly into my home system. Once my production dropped severely, I managed to send my remaining fleet (30 ships) to defend my home system. Unfortunately, when my fleet was back, there I had about hals dozen ships left because all of them scrapped for lack of maintenance... Guess if there was any planet alive in my home system by then?

Heh, this is quite a fun thread indeed

[narf poit chez BOOM]

warp point damage is random in gold?

[ June 03, 2003, 22:05: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Gandalph]

Been playing PBW for awhile, SEIV even longer. Need a few space yard ships to build warp defense bases, need to get the there unnoticed. Designed and built 3 of them with QR and stealth armor. Go to send them on there way, NO ENGINES!!! No wonder I got all that on a cruiser hull, DOH!!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

in one of my games, singleplayer, i'm told 'planet will explode in 1.0 years' so, i leave a note for me to evacuate everyone in .9 years. not only did i not think about time for evacuation, not only did i not think about time for building ships, i forgot about the whole thing. at least it's a huge quadrant, but it was a huge planet.

[oleg]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
warp point damage is random in gold?

It always been. SE throws a dice when ship moves into a damaging warp point. You may be lucky or may be not.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

guess i never noticed because i always go around.

[Geckomlis]

Originally posted by oleg:
It always been. SE throws a dice when ship moves into a damaging warp point. You may be lucky or may be not.

This is also true for a damaging storm (or any other object with the Sector-Damage ability).

[ June 04, 2003, 22:35: Message edited by: geckomlis ]