Help with Playing as Pirates.

RCCCL · #1 June 11th, 2005, 03:23 PM

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Captain Kwok said:
Civillian ships should be listed with the other hulls in the ship design screen.

When you say "listed with the other hulls" do you mean where its says ships isze? If so all I see there is Escort, Frigate, Destroyer, Colony ship, and Small Transport. I've only got lvl 3 in ship construction.

Suicide Junkie · #2 June 11th, 2005, 06:40 PM

The Civilian Cruiser and Civilian Transport should be the top two ships available in the design screen. You may have an older version of P&N, though.

Using units can help a lot; no maintenance on them.
You definitely won't be able to build many ships, though, and the ships you capture will be pricey... scrap or analyse them as soon as possible.

One of the best things you can do is capture a planet with troops. If it is a high mineral value world, the AI will probably have built miners on it, and you'll be instantly rolling in resources from your slaves.
The AI will quickly come to glass it though, so loot then pilliage and then run away

And do throw the cheap tricks:
One or two weapon-destroying mines can cripple enemy targets so you can capture them without resistance.

Fyron · #3 June 11th, 2005, 08:13 PM

Actually now that I remember it... Civilian Cruisers are only available in the "PBW Only" versions of P&N. Hint, hint Mr. SJ.

RCCCL · #4 June 11th, 2005, 10:37 PM

Ah well that explains why I haven't run across them. As for capturing a planet, how do you do that? Do you need troops?

Fyron · #5 June 11th, 2005, 10:51 PM

Yes. Research Construction 1, then Troops. You will need a ship with lots of cargo bays. Build a bunch of troops, load them on, and drop them on the target planet in combat. If you use strategic combat, you will need to assign the "Capture Planet" strategy to the ship design carrying the troops. This is done in the ship designs window (F3).

Suicide Junkie · #6 June 12th, 2005, 06:27 AM

As I recall, you were looking at an older version there, when we discussed this last time on IRC, Fyron. Maybe from the geocities list or something.

Visit imagemodserver.mine.nu to get the latest stuff.
I'm fairly sure the v3.2+ stuff has 'em.

Something seems to be wrong with the DNS to imagemod, though.

No easy way to fix it from Amsterdam...

Fyron · #7 June 12th, 2005, 01:47 PM

I don't recall seeing a 3.2 on there the last time we discussed this, which was quite some time ago. Did you sneak a new version on there?