Understanding battle strategies...newbie question

tbontob · #1 August 23rd, 2002, 12:08 AM

Hi guys:

Have a question about the placement of the poll...

As a newbie, for the first 2 weeks or so, I more or less limited myself to what was showing on my screen. There was so much stuff to digest that I just did not wander much...

The position of the poll is fast approaching the place where newbies (if they are like me) will not find it.

Now, we can put inane Messages in it to put it up to the top of the list where new arrivals are more likely to find it.

A better way would be to have it positioned at the top among some of the other Messages there.

So how do I go about doing it? Is there someone, I need to contact? If so, who? And how?

Fyron · #2 August 23rd, 2002, 09:09 AM

You need to bump the thread periodically. It _could_ be made sticky (stuck at the top) by a moderator, but that isn't a very good idea. The number of sticky threads needs to be kept at a minimum.

tbontob · #3 August 23rd, 2002, 09:20 AM

Actually, I've already e-mailed a moderator for this very purpose.

DirectorTsaarx · #4 August 23rd, 2002, 05:14 PM

BTW - if you just want to change the strategy for a particular ship, you can click on the "strategy" button (looks like a chess pawn). Avoids having to create a one-ship fleet and worry about ship orders vs. fleet orders...

tbontob · #5 August 23rd, 2002, 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DirectorTsaarx:
BTW - if you just want to change the strategy for a particular ship, you can click on the "strategy" button (looks like a chess pawn). Avoids having to create a one-ship fleet and worry about ship orders vs. fleet orders...

Sigh....

I must be doing something wrong.

Captured another ship, selected it, but the strategy button does not light up.

We're talking about the pawn in the upper right hand corner, right?

The only time the "pawn" lights up for me is when I select a fleet. It's never lit up when I've selected a single ship.

capnq · #6 August 23rd, 2002, 07:42 PM

The "chess pawn" (hotkey H) is for setting fleet formations and strategies; it won't be active if you've selected an individual ship.

You can make a fleet with only one ship in it, though.

I'm frankly baffled as to why tbontob is getting the results he's reporting; AFAIK, his technique ought to work.

DirectorTsaarx · #7 August 23rd, 2002, 07:57 PM

Yeah, sorry all - I got confused; I thought I'd changed strategies for single ships using the pawn button, but I just re-checked and the pawn button only works for fleets. Kinda silly, really; you SHOULD be able to set strategies on an individual ship basis. Not that you'd do it often (who wants to remember that some ships of a particular design have a different strategy?), but still it'd be quite convenient. Especially since we've seen that fleet strategy doesn't always take priority over ship strategy. Of course, many people have noticed that the chosen strategy doesn't always take precedence - sometimes a ship/fleet will just decide to do something they're not supposed to do at all...

I'm stumped on this one as well. The "don't get hurt" orders should have sent your ship to a corner, regardless of armament... unless... did the ship have PDC on it? Or just APB? If it had PDC, once the planet (or the ship) launched missiles, your ship might (MIGHT! - I could be wrong on this one, but someone else mentioned that fighters launched by a planet had a similar effect) have moved in range of the missiles so the PDC could fire, and by the time those missiles were destroyed, more missiles were launched, and moving in range of those made the planet a target for APB... and eventually you're in battle, regardless of "Don't Get Hurt" orders.

Another idea - try making "fastest" the highest targeting priority; the enemy ship should usually be faster than the planet...