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Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge?

Thu, 18 March 2004 18:10

Kang

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Registered: April 2003

I avoid games that try to place limitations on a players ability to "manipulate the odds in his favor". This means that if a game bans "chaff" or states that "Split Fleet dodge" are not allowed than I immediately ignore the request for players.
The reason for this is that it limits your ability to react to a given situation and forces you into a predictable response that is easy for the opponet to anticipate.
Allowing people to use the split fleet dodge simply provides them with options in a given situation, and may require an opponent to place some of his ships at risk in order to kill you off. In other words it makes the game more interesting.
First you need to understand the targetting used when this is employed.
example - My ships have battle plans to attack Bombers/Freighters and then attack any, they will follow the largest stack of Bombers/Freighters, and if the warships are split off, they will be ignored.
If I have 20 individual stacks of inteerceptors and they are set to target warships, then if you split your sweepers into 20 stacks I will chase all 20 of them (IIRC). The drawback is that if none of your ships split off I will chase the large stack and have 20 individual fleets at the battle which may not be to my advantage. In other words my opponent has options to place me at a disadvantage and I must weigh those chances wehn making my moves.
The only real Abuse of split fleet is to avoid combat where you will have too many fleets at a given battle point and therefore the largest fleet will not be in the battle, or a situation where you have previously split into greter than 100 fleets so that fleets cannot be targetted.`

In other words these "problems" will not arise if you allow the use of game features and nuances to enhace your options, and make the game a little more complex. After all it's the complexities we like right?

Kang

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		So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Raindancer on Tue, 17 February 2004 22:18
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Sotek on Tue, 17 February 2004 23:57
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Ashlyn on Wed, 18 February 2004 01:59
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Raindancer on Wed, 18 February 2004 09:01
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Ashlyn on Wed, 18 February 2004 09:11
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Raindancer on Wed, 18 February 2004 11:00
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: mazda on Wed, 18 February 2004 11:33
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Raindancer on Wed, 18 February 2004 12:12
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: mazda on Wed, 18 February 2004 13:02
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: vonKreedon on Wed, 18 February 2004 13:49
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: multilis on Wed, 18 February 2004 14:39
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Raindancer on Thu, 19 February 2004 12:03
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: LEit on Wed, 18 February 2004 14:45
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: multilis on Thu, 19 February 2004 11:45
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Raindancer on Thu, 19 February 2004 12:30
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: multilis on Thu, 19 February 2004 18:54
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: multilis on Tue, 24 February 2004 02:04
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: gible on Tue, 24 February 2004 05:37
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Ron on Tue, 24 February 2004 12:21
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Ptolemy on Tue, 16 March 2004 15:39
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Dogthinkers on Wed, 17 March 2004 06:55
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Kang on Thu, 18 March 2004 18:10
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Ptolemy on Thu, 18 March 2004 22:19
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: vonKreedon on Fri, 19 March 2004 10:18
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: mlaub on Fri, 19 March 2004 12:35
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: overworked on Mon, 22 March 2004 13:27
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: mlaub on Thu, 25 March 2004 19:06
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Ptolemy on Fri, 26 March 2004 01:36
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Kang on Fri, 26 March 2004 17:49
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Ashlyn on Wed, 18 February 2004 09:19
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Coyote on Wed, 18 February 2004 02:58
		Re: So what exactly is Split Fleet Dodge? By: Crusader on Sat, 27 March 2004 18:52

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