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Re: Cheating or not?

Mon, 04 July 2005 03:32

Micha

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crr65536 wrote on Sun, 03 July 2005 07:36

I would imagine a ship blowing up would scatter its remains as much as the dumped cargo is scattered, from the "realistic" point of view - however one could argue that a ship's salvage would be relatively close whereas when dumping cargo in deep space the crew is actively trying to make it unretrievable.

I don't look at the dump cargo order that way, it's not to make the minerals unretrievable. The reason why you do it is to give the freighters a chance to escape (lighter means more moves) and if they _do_ survive you can pick your cargo up again Nod

and run away! Smile

That's why instead of just dumping the cargo the ships in fact detach their entire cargo holds/pods, so the minerals stay within a "package" and are easy to pick up again, they don't get scattered in the vacuum ... that's the opposite of "unloading" into deep space, when doing that the cargo holds just get emptied and the minerals disappear into deepspace ...

Sure if the enemy brings transports than he might be the one picking up the cargo pods before you do. But if you don't dump the cargo he'll get your full mineral load anyway (IIRC cargo is entirely put into the salvage, not just a part of it), so with the "dump cargo" order your ships at least have a chance of getting away and possibly picking up the cargo the next turn. Smile

mch

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		Re: Cheating or not? By: Kotk on Fri, 10 June 2005 11:58
		Re: Cheating or not? By: LEit on Fri, 10 June 2005 12:04
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		Re: Cheating or not? By: Ptolemy on Fri, 10 June 2005 13:18
		Re: Cheating or not? By: Clark on Fri, 10 June 2005 17:40
		Re: Cheating or not? By: Micha on Fri, 10 June 2005 18:03
		Re: Cheating or not? By: crr65536 on Fri, 10 June 2005 20:48
		Re: Cheating or not? By: PricklyPea on Sat, 11 June 2005 07:26
		Re: Cheating or not? By: Kotk on Sat, 11 June 2005 08:42
		Re: Cheating or not? By: crr65536 on Sat, 11 June 2005 23:56
		Re: Cheating or not? By: Kotk on Sun, 12 June 2005 08:47
		Re: Cheating or not? By: crr65536 on Sun, 12 June 2005 13:11
		Re: Cheating or not? By: PricklyPea on Sun, 12 June 2005 13:39
		Re: Cheating or not? By: iztok on Sat, 02 July 2005 15:18
		Re: Cheating or not? By: crr65536 on Sat, 02 July 2005 16:01
		Re: Cheating or not? By: Kotk on Sat, 02 July 2005 17:01
		Re: Cheating or not? By: crr65536 on Sun, 03 July 2005 01:36
		Re: Cheating or not? By: Kotk on Sun, 03 July 2005 06:24
		Re: Cheating or not? By: Micha on Mon, 04 July 2005 03:32
		Re: Cheating or not? By: PricklyPea on Mon, 04 July 2005 07:52
		Re: Cheating or not? By: Micha on Fri, 22 July 2005 16:06
		Re: Cheating or not? By: Micha on Mon, 04 July 2005 03:23
		Re: Cheating or not? By: Kotk on Mon, 04 July 2005 06:24
		Re: Cheating or not? By: Ptolemy on Mon, 11 July 2005 21:51
		Re: Cheating or not? By: iztok on Tue, 12 July 2005 02:38
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