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Old March 9th, 2001, 09:50 PM

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When you are near your enemies home system, open up a warp point from the center of a nearby black hole, back to your own space. That way you can defend your side of the warp point. But he can't defend his side.
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Old March 9th, 2001, 10:49 PM
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That's a great Idea, as long as he dosen't decide to close the warppoint, (since you've all got SM tech)

Course, you could hide a Heavily cloaked WP opener ship in there to reopen whenever you want.

Does closing a WP take up movement? what if you opened 10 warp points to the same place?
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Old March 10th, 2001, 04:56 AM
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When you are near your enemies home system, open up a warp point from the center of a nearby black hole, back to your own space. That way you can defend your side of the warp point. But he can't defend his side.


sure, but then you would have to get from the BH to his system, and he would be able to defend that WP. a better plan is to just open a WP from a different system every other turn. you can even keep your fleet in one place and two-hop the WP.

for the smoothest results in multiplayer (simultanious of course) keep your fleet one sector away from the gate ship so the pathfinding will have time to kick in after the WP gets openend.

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Umm, you were able to fly over the singularity? (This should not happen, unless you give it explicit orders I think)
I reported that once
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Yeah, it was single step orders, but I went and sat on the hole, then moved away (in one turn)

All you have to do is open two warp points in the same sector, one to your fleet, one to your destination, move through, and close.

The open,open,close,close can be done in one turn by a dedicated "gate ship", or base
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Why not open a number of warp points into his space from all over yours, using ships that only open warp points, only one of them leads to your heavilly defended home system, the rest are traps, since you only move cloaked ships through the points your opponent is left guessing which warp point leads to your home system, to further sow confusion you could open and close a few random points as well, leading to useless, but mined, systems far from your borders.
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You'r opponent will be able to see where the warp lines go, and can select the warp point that goes to your home system.

Why not open a warp point from over top of your home planet, but have 10,000 mines in orbit. Wait for him to send his attack fleet through, and when his military is wiped out, you can counter attack, against a decimated enemy army.
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