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Krsqk · #**881** May 10th, 2003, 12:16 AM

Well, I've officially surrendered to tesco. My fleet expected more ships and/or fewer sats. My missile ships with PDC also didn't target the sats, although they were specifically directed to.

Anyway, a great game by tesco, and I've learned much from it. Next opponent on the bottom, please? Maybe one who's 0-10?

sparhawk · #**882** May 10th, 2003, 01:47 AM

Well, let me give you an update for gandalph vs sparhawk.

We did meet very early in the game, losing ships on both sides.
I had some missiles on my ships that got some ship of gandalph, but very soon gandalph had researched point defence weapons and I lost some ships.
He started very early with spreading mines through some keys point. But I was luckily in time to occupy some strategic warp point. I think that we are now at the point that colony ships/mine layer ship are leaving the ship yards fast to spread throught the galaxy.
Its now turn 4.7 and things are starting to be fixed. Minefields are placed and a concentration point of two fleets are fixed to one system. Gandalph with some planets there and me on a warp point. Hopefully he gives me some time to build-up my forces

Sparhawk

geoschmo · #**883** May 10th, 2003, 02:21 AM

I have never been able to get PDC to fire on sats in strategic games. I think it's a bug. I think the target has to be moving for the PDC to fire on it. You can use PDC against sats in tactical though.

Slynky · #**884** May 10th, 2003, 02:31 AM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
I have never been able to get PDC to fire on sats in strategic games. I think it's a bug. I think the target has to be moving for the PDC to fire on it. You can use PDC against sats in tactical though.

I've seen them fire at mine before. PD's, right?

Nodachi · #**885** May 10th, 2003, 03:02 AM

The problem with ordering a PD ship to attack sats is that it must have another weapon that can target the sats that will bring it into PD range. The earlier example was a missile ship, missiles can't target sats so as far as the game was concerned it was just like having a PD ship with no offensive weapons.

Hope this helps!

Slynky · #**886** May 10th, 2003, 03:12 AM

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Originally posted by Nodachi:
The problem with ordering a PD ship to attack sats is that it must have another weapon that can target the sats that will bring it into PD range. The earlier example was a missile ship, missiles can't target sats so as far as the game was concerned it was just like having a PD ship with no offensive weapons.

Hope this helps!

That's probably it.

Krsqk · #**887** May 10th, 2003, 03:36 AM

Okay, that explains it. Thanks for the help. Not that it was a game-buster or anything; Tesco just out-quicked me (is that a word?

) when it counted.

Gandalph · #**888** May 10th, 2003, 04:58 AM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
I have never been able to get PDC to fire on sats in strategic games. I think it's a bug. I think the target has to be moving for the PDC to fire on it. You can use PDC against sats in tactical though.

In my experience, either the target or the atacker must be moving before PDC will fire.

tbontob · #**889** May 10th, 2003, 07:11 AM

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Originally posted by Gandalph:

quote:
Originally posted by geoschmo:
I have never been able to get PDC to fire on sats in strategic games. I think it's a bug. I think the target has to be moving for the PDC to fire on it. You can use PDC against sats in tactical though.

In my experience, either the target or the atacker must be moving before PDC will fire.

I have never had a problem attacking sats with PDC's in a strategic game.

The PDC's were on ships, so the ships (the attackers) would be moving.

As Nodachi has mentioned, I too have another weapon on board so as the ship will move towards the sats and bring it's PDC's to bear.

EDITED to give proper credit to Nodachi.

[ May 10, 2003, 06:30: Message edited by: tbontob ]

Krsqk · #**890** May 10th, 2003, 02:58 PM

I think the problem was that it was a warp point battle--I came through and destroyed the one ship the missiles would target pretty quickly. The missile ships were moving, all right--away from the sats.

Had there been any ships further away, I'm sure they would have moved past the sats and got some shots in. Not enough to make much difference, but some.