Just discovered: Emergency Populsion Pack

[Spoo]

But as I recall, you can't use emergency propolsion on an entire fleet; you have to take the ships out of the fleet and select it for each. Can be a pain if you have lots of ships.

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Assume you have a 1kg squirrel
E=mc^2
E=1kg(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.
Fear the squirrel.

[tesco samoa]

You are correnct Spoo.

We should add that to the wish list. That if every ship has the same ability you should be able to use it for the fleet.

I use the em props alot. I will save alot of ships when their limping home. I also like to put them on my 'crippler cruisers' which hunt in packs of 4 after big battles looking for wounded ships.

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[CW]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Spoo:
But as I recall, you can't use emergency propolsion on an entire fleet<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

At least I can have my 17 speed Auxiliaries! http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif They rarely travel in fleets anyway.

[CW]

I cannot figured out why I never thought of this... The emergency populsion pack V is a disposible device that gives you once-off 5 extra movement points and must be repaired for the next use, but the bulk of my transports are multi-purposes ships with a repair bay on them, so they can self-repair. Now why not fit an emergency populsion pack on them? I'm at max tech and a populsion expert, so their normal speed is 12, plus an EPP V makes 17!! WOW!! http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

Even more amazing, there is an engineering baseship with a spaceyard and 4 repair bays in all of my fleets. What if I fit a EEP V on each of my ships? That makes a 14 speed fleet!


[This message has been edited by CW (edited 25 August 2001).]

[dmm]

Yeah, NOW only one is allowed per ship. But in the good old days, Wow! You could use as many EPPs as you wanted, and even use them on Starbases (through a cheezy exploit discovered by yours truly http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif ). What a bLast sending your Death Star across the entire galaxy in one turn to assist your exploration ship in convincing the enemy homeworld to surrender!

[Dravis]

And, of course, you can put multiple emergency propulsion components on ships so if you have a baseship you can travel across the galaxy in one turn.

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Grand Admiral Dravis
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[This message has been edited by Dravis (edited 27 August 2001).]

[CW]

Only one is allowed per ship.

[CW]

This thing is pretty amazing... ever seen a baseship wrap into a system, going right across it and wrap out the other side in one turn? http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif