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PeterD
June 3rd, 2004, 03:24 PM
How do you blockade a planet, without attacking
it?
dogscoff
June 3rd, 2004, 03:46 PM
How do you blockade a planet, without attacking it? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, in tactical mose it's easy... don't attack!

Strategic is a little harder, it's a matter of making sure you have your fleet strategies and ship strategies correctly set.

ALternatively, send in an unarmed (or armed only with PD) ship.
Baron Munchausen
June 3rd, 2004, 05:26 PM
Also, set your fleet leader to a ship with no weapons. It will run away from the planet instead of attack and the other ships will follow. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
The One
June 3rd, 2004, 06:52 PM
what is the point of a Blockade, since the planet can still build or does this stop the empire as a whole from getting any resources from said planet?
PvK
June 3rd, 2004, 06:59 PM
Yes, it does block resources and research and intel.

The point is generally to block these without having to fight the defenses (except mines), and/or to do so until your troop ships can arrive so you can take the planet intact, and/or to irritate the opponent and make him waste inordinate fleet resources chasing your blockaders.

PvK
clark
June 3rd, 2004, 09:05 PM
Does blockcading the planet with a spaceport effectively block the rest of the planets in the system?
Fyron
June 3rd, 2004, 09:08 PM
No. System-wide abilities of a blockaded planet function normally. It is only the resource/research/intel production of the blockaded planet that is affected.
Yef
June 4th, 2004, 01:09 AM
When I blockade a planet, what happens to the production of research and intelligence?
I know that the production of minerals, orgs and rads stops, but I have my doubts about research and intelligence, since these two don't need an spaceport to be avaliable for an empire....
geoschmo
June 4th, 2004, 01:18 AM
Originally posted by Yef:
When I blockade a planet, what happens to the production of research and intelligence?<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It stops.

Originally posted by Yef:
I know that the production of minerals, orgs and rads stops, but I have my doubts about research and intelligence, since these two don't need an spaceport to be avaliable for an empire.... <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That is incorrect. They need a spaceport as well.

[ June 03, 2004, 12:20: Message edited by: geoschmo ]