Updated the FAQ

Fyron · #1 November 19th, 2003, 02:38 AM

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One advantage for remote mining that I didn't see discussed was that it costs you no space on your planets at all. Playing a race of god-like researchers, I got a HUGE advantage in tech very early by getting well over 60% of my minerals from remote mining ships, and stuffing every planet I could find full to the brim with research centers.

You can't mine a colonized planet though...

Nocturnal · #2 November 19th, 2003, 03:59 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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One advantage for remote mining that I didn't see discussed was that it costs you no space on your planets at all. Playing a race of god-like researchers, I got a HUGE advantage in tech very early by getting well over 60% of my minerals from remote mining ships, and stuffing every planet I could find full to the brim with research centers.

You can't mine a colonized planet though...

You can't colonize an asteroid belt either, early in the game. And most small moons can be exploited much more through mining than colonization. What's your point?

AMF · #3 November 19th, 2003, 08:45 PM

Argh....stupid question that I *know* has been answered somewhere before, but here goes:

Under the Allegiance Subverter section, the FAQ says "In Versions earlier than 1.80, ships with a destroyed master computer CAN be captured [by allegiance subverter]."

So, am I to take this to mean that in Version 1.8, a ship with a destroyed MC *cannot* be captured by my AS?

Thanks,

Alarik
(biting my nails until PBW gets back up)

Phoenix-D · #4 November 19th, 2003, 09:00 PM

That is true, yes.

AMF · #5 November 19th, 2003, 09:04 PM

Well, that stinks...any way around this?

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That is true, yes.

Fyron · #6 November 19th, 2003, 10:29 PM

No. AS + Comp Virus was way too powerful before. Something had to be done.

AMF · #7 November 19th, 2003, 10:43 PM

Yeah, I can't really argue with that...I'll still argue though that, from a conceptual *and* practical point of view, that a better solution is to make those ships with *only* MCs invulnerable to AS, but those with MCs *and* crew quarters/bridges to be vulnerable. Logic being this: if it is solely a computer controlled ship, and the computer is destroyed, there is enough residual software to run it at the degraded (loss of control spaces) level; but if there is a crew onboard *also*, they take control of the ship and hence are then vulnerable to psychic enslavement.

Just myh two cents, I know it's not gonna change, but I can dream of a way to deal with Talismans...

thanks,

Alarik

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
No. AS + Comp Virus was way too powerful before. Something had to be done.