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| Re: IT gating |
Fri, 17 October 2008 00:21   |
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Yes, and no. They work the same as your own gates, except they don't come in the better varieties.
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| Re: IT gating |
Sat, 18 October 2008 22:28 |
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| magic9mushroom wrote on Sat, 18 October 2008 21:12 |
You can't gate cargo no matter what if you're not an IT, right?
So an IT can gate Large Freighters full of colonists through others' 300kT gates then?
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Yes.
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| Re: IT gating |
Sun, 19 October 2008 06:03 |
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| magic9mushroom wrote on Sun, 19 October 2008 03:12 |
You can't gate cargo no matter what if you're not an IT, right?
So an IT can gate Large Freighters full of colonists through others' 300kT gates then?
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On top of this, IT-ships never vanish due to mass-overgating.
They accumulate damage as any other PRT, though, and if the damage reaches 100% the ships are gone.
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| Re: IT gating |
Sun, 19 October 2008 21:48 |
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| Altruist wrote on Sun, 19 October 2008 06:03 |
On top of this, IT-ships never vanish due to mass-overgating.
They accumulate damage as any other PRT, though, and if the damage reaches 100% the ships are gone.
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IT ships never vanish due to mass and/or *distance* overgating.
In effect, this means full large freighters can be effectively gated to any gate an ally has (almost) anywhere.
*and*
Which is it?? Distance or weight limits, which are only determined by the *sending* gate? Distance, iirc. So you can send a large freighter truly anywhere from a 100/any or any/any gate.
naz
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| Re: IT gating |
Sun, 19 October 2008 22:09 |
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| bigcanuknaz wrote on Mon, 20 October 2008 14:48 |
IT ships never vanish due to mass and/or *distance* overgating.
In effect, this means full large freighters can be effectively gated to any gate an ally has (almost) anywhere.
*and*
Which is it?? Distance or weight limits, which are only determined by the *sending* gate? Distance, iirc. So you can send a large freighter truly anywhere from a 100/any or any/any gate.
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Not quite, distance damage is determined by the sending gate alone, but weight damage is determined by both gates.
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| Re: IT gating |
Sun, 19 October 2008 22:38 |
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right.
so for a 100/any origin, the large freighter can be sent anywhere while accumulating a bit of damage from approx doubling the weight limit.
and from an any/any gate, the receiving gate will determine the weight damage, if any.
So from these two gates, a loaded large freighter can truly be sent anywhere.
As IT, I *regularly* overgate. (Heck, as any race, I regularly overgate.)
Also as IT, I have *never* had a ship disappear due to overgating. The wiki "guts of overgating" says the probability of disappearing is reduced. Is it in fact more than 0% or is it just so close to 0 to be effectively 0.
naz
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| Re: IT gating |
Tue, 21 October 2008 22:15 |
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tested
I just tested many moves of 133 chaff with IT through any/300 ly, overgating up to 800 ly (as far apart as my gates were in this testbed)
I never lost a ship.
Also, as IT, I regularly distance overgate, and have *never* as far as I recall, lost a ship.
I also regularly weight overgate slightly through 100/250 gates. This is much less often. I have not paid much attention, but again have not noticed any ship loss. I only slightly weight overgate with privateer colonizers and superfuel exports.
I have tested and am sure IT does not loose any (or at least as close to 0 as to be effectively 0) ships from distance overgating through an any/300 gate.
I have not tested, and am thus not sure about ship loss when weight overgating.
naz
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| Re: IT gating |
Thu, 23 October 2008 11:08 |
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Yes they can use gates - but using HE races when testing out the effects of gates is signifcantly more hassle than any other race 
[Updated on: Thu, 23 October 2008 11:08]
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