Is this a bug??

Admiral Grover · #1 May 14th, 2001, 11:16 PM

Not sure if this is a bug or not but, when designing ships, it is possible to build a ship without any engines. I use 1.35 and the TDM-ModPack.

IMO, this should not happen, ships should be required to have at least one engine.

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Suicide Junkie · #2 May 14th, 2001, 11:22 PM

Why not? You could use an engineless ship for many things.
Put a solar sail on the thing, and it has unlimited range, no supply usage.

Taqwus · #3 May 15th, 2001, 12:24 AM

And a stranger use for an engine-less ship is a star destroyer. Seriously. If you're paranoid and want to build one long before you have a useful target, and you don't want somebody to CI it and demolish your own system, you can just park it away from a star and remove the engines. Then refit and repair them when you're ready to deploy, to minimize the possible Window of Really Unlucky/Stupid Mass Death.

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PvK · #4 May 15th, 2001, 01:04 AM

A small ship with cargo bays and maybe launchers can also help with certain limitations of the dang unit launch/recover abilities. This is a cheap way to reduce problems such as not being able to launch or recover only one type of satellite or fighter without launching or recovering all of them at once from a planet, etc.

PvK

Marty Ward · #5 May 15th, 2001, 01:12 AM

Engine-less ships? No pollution, must be the Green Party race or an Organic race.
I guess you could even have an engineless fighter, with an afterburner it could move in combat.

rdouglass · #6 May 16th, 2001, 01:34 AM

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
Why not? You could use an engineless ship for many things.
Put a solar sail on the thing, and it has unlimited range, no supply usage.

Does this work??? I know it would only have 3 move points, but it could go on forever...can anyone say 'V-ger'!!!