Should I buy it? Help me understand

Argitoth · #1 December 2nd, 2003, 10:29 PM

I had a fleet, half planetary destroyers things and half ship destroyers. The planetary destroyers kind of ran away since they could not attack ships and the ship destroyers attacked the planet and not the ships.

So, by setting up the strategies, will I be able to avoid getting a fleet killed like this?

I then tried combining technologies into one light cruiser. Half their weapons were for destroying ships, the other half were planetary weapons. Turn 100 came before I could test it out.

Can someone tell me if it is possible to make these types of ships effective? (By having ships fire certain weapons at certain targets.)

[ December 02, 2003, 20:34: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

Atrocities · #2 December 2nd, 2003, 10:35 PM

Put then into seperate fleets and give then seperate strategies I guess might work.

Argitoth · #3 December 2nd, 2003, 10:47 PM

What about if there are planetary weapons and ship weapons on the same ship, could you make them fire at different targets?

And even if I did put them in different fleets, would the battle be with both fleets at the same time?

primitive · #4 December 2nd, 2003, 11:16 PM

First of all, planetary weapons is kinda useless. The ship destroying weapons does an excellent job against planets too.

You can not select different targets for different weapons. The ship will move toward its highest priority goal (which cand be planets) and if its in range, fire what it got. If the selected target is not in range, it will fire at whatever else is in range (and the weapon can hit).

If both fleets arrive at the same day both will take part in the action.

Fyron · #5 December 2nd, 2003, 11:17 PM

There are mods that make the planetary weapons quite useful.

Moddability is the strongest aspect of SE4 IMO.

Argitoth · #6 December 3rd, 2003, 12:12 AM

Alright, the only thing left stopping me from buy the game: How allied can one person become?

I know you can give whole solar systems away. Can you let your allie pickup cargo from your planet?

PvK · #7 December 3rd, 2003, 12:19 AM

Unless the game options are set to disallow trading, you can give ships and units and resources to other players.

They can automatically resupply at your planets if you give them a certain treaty level or higher.

Literally picking up items off your planet, not per se. To transfer units, you need to trade them a ship or planet that holds the units. I've sometimes build a ship or base which is just a simple container to give an ally some units, but I haven't had occasion to do that often.

PvK