same shipsets for 2 opponents in game

Emperor's Child · #1 October 18th, 2005, 11:05 AM

I've joined a PBW game recently and have noticed that two of the opponents that did not provide a dowloaded ship-set have had the computer select for them the same shipset. I'm not in contact with either one at the moment, but am curious if this will cause issues in turn processing down the road. I need advice from players who have seen this before on what problems to expect and advice on how to tell the two apart when they have ships in the same sector.

Ed Kolis · #2 October 18th, 2005, 11:37 AM

It won't mess up turn processing, but it will be a real pain to tell the ships apart... I think if they have ships in the same sector there will be 2 identical flags, but you'll need to check each ship individually to see who it belongs to

Hopefully they will declare war on each other and one will wipe the other out

NullAshton · #3 October 18th, 2005, 12:22 PM

Or, you could force one to surrender to the other, and have fun destroying a double-wide empire.

Fyron · #4 October 19th, 2005, 03:02 AM

NullAshton said:
Or, you could force one to surrender to the other, and have fun destroying a double-wide empire.

Merging empires is one of the worst ways to ruin a PBW game.

Atrocities · #5 October 19th, 2005, 07:10 AM

Just have one of the players pick a new set, swap out the new images for the empire and forward a zip copy to everyone. Problem solved.

Ed Kolis · #6 October 19th, 2005, 12:22 PM

I think the game has already started...

Emperor's Child · #7 October 19th, 2005, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Atrocities said:
Just have one of the players pick a new set, swap out the new images for the empire and forward a zip copy to everyone. Problem solved.

Won't work, game is already started. The two players didn't select any specific shipsets, so the computer apparently selected the same stand-in shipset for both.

capnq · #8 October 18th, 2005, 02:37 PM

The easiest way to deal with this is for the players involved to agree on a ship naming convention that differentiates between them, like their empire's initials.

Emperor's Child · #9 October 18th, 2005, 04:42 PM

I don't know, I'm assuming that this is a problem for me and me alone. I'd rather not put my issued onto the other players.

Out of curiosity, does anybody know if a double-shipset assignment in a PBW game is something that affects all players when it occurs, or is this something that only one player has to deal with?

Renegade 13 · #10 October 18th, 2005, 05:32 PM

That depends. If you do not have the shipsets that those two players are using, the computer will randomly assign shipsets to those empires for you to see. Everyone who does have the shipset will see everything properly. So if it's a case of just you not having the shipsets the players are using, then it'll likely be only you who has the duplicate shipsets problem.

Sorry if that doesn't make a lot of sense, I seem to be having a tough time writing what I'm thinking!