how to stop ships from running away

Taera · #1 November 4th, 2002, 08:43 AM

correction: a ship with PDC normally does not have targets. If it does not have targets it runs to the corner. when missiles pop up they are instantly destroyed by other PDc (if any) and thus the ship stays in the corner. So, it is a good idea to put some APB on your pdc ships.

DavidG · #2 November 4th, 2002, 01:50 PM

Couldn't you also put the ship in a fleet? Could work untill the ship gets refitted with a regular weapon.

Gryphin · #3 November 5th, 2002, 02:25 AM

If you are desparate you could get them to stay up front by giving them RAM orders. I can think of one drawback.

Phoenix-D · #4 November 4th, 2002, 10:15 PM

"Couldn't you also put the ship in a fleet? Could work untill the ship gets refitted with a regular weapon."

Ships without anything to do will ALWAYS run away unless you tell them to ram.

PD-only ships will run until missiles are fired, then come closer, then run when the missiles go away.

Boarding-only ships will run if the enemy has shields.

Troop transports will run if there are weapons platforms on the surface AND there are friendly armed ships.

They will also break formation to do that..

Phoenix-D

Pax · #5 November 4th, 2002, 10:20 PM

There is one sure-fire way to keep a ship from running, nomatter what.

Don't install engines. If it can't move, it can't run away.

...

Of course, this defeats most purposes for which ships are BUILT, but .... that's beside the point.

LOL.

Matryx · #6 November 6th, 2002, 11:20 PM

Hmmm. Thought - Point defense sats in the cargo hold

Enemy launches missiles -> *bam* much more PD for your space.

Disadvantage is of course in the loading / unloading of said devices, but some might consider it worth it.

Phoenix-D · #7 November 7th, 2002, 04:02 AM

"Disadvantage is of course in the loading / unloading of said devices, but some might consider it worth it."

It won't work in strategic, and IIRC sats can't be recovered in Tactical. Then again I've never tried..

Phoenix-D