| SS-Trick |
Sun, 02 February 2003 05:54  |
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 Robert |
 | Lt. Junior Grade |
Messages: 393
Registered: November 2002
Location: Dortmund, Germany | |
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i think i have some nice trick, playable with SS only...
the manual says, SS packets are cloaked... i heared that
this is not true... can anybody confirm???
what i have here is something different:
packets are not that powerful, we all know... they cost
minerals, and for large packets you just evacuate and
colonize again...
ok... agreed!
so a race, best PP or AR (early nice en-tech) sends a packet
to a victim's planet... he precalculates the packet's position
for next turn (quite difficult, starscalc does not do it, but
i found a tool on a rushn server... you can also do it by hand).
he tells his SS ally to send a fleet to that position with
wp1 load-order. next turn the victim gets a message that there
is a packet on the way to his planet, but only ... say 10kT.
he will not evacuate. (he does not see the cloaked SS fleet
where the packet is!).
next turn the SS drops the mins back to the packet at wp0,
the packet hits the planet with full mass 
from now on the victim is targeted with lots of packets each
turn, and he will never know if the packet is only 10kT or there
is a 98% cloaked SS fleet hiding the real weight...
evacuate? or not evacuate???
nasty, isnt it???
you can only do it with SS, as all others cant cloak cargo
efficiently...
any comments???
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