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Re: Cheats you like to play?

Wed, 13 November 2002 17:47

Apelord

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Or you could think of chaffe as unmanned drones that project the signature of a big fat dreadnaught with no sheilds or jamming left.

Regardless of what your particular opinion of chaffe is, or what your rationalization of it is, it does perform a very critical (albeit unintended) function: It introduces a very important RPS (Rock-Paper-Scissors) loop into the battle engine that serves to balance the board quite nicely.

Chaffe beats missiles
Beams beat chaffe
missiles beat beams.

When widespread use of chaffe began, frequently games banned its' use. Having played in several such games way back when I can definitely say that chaffe provides for more interesting tactics and more critical choice in fleet design. Beamers used to be pretty rare. That's because without chaffe, missiles reign supreme. The game is a lot more fun with chaffe since now fleets need beams AND missiles AND chaffe to be highly effective and the relative ratios are as much a factor as the design of the ships. Of course the composition of fleets changes with every turn making it even more interesting. Used to be that it was a pure race to armageddon BB's and then a race to get the bigggest stack of them.

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		Cheats you like to play? By: FurFuznel on Wed, 06 November 2002 12:25
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: overworked on Wed, 06 November 2002 12:41
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Coyote on Thu, 07 November 2002 03:29
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: mitchell on Thu, 07 November 2002 16:58
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Coyote on Fri, 08 November 2002 01:40
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: overworked on Fri, 08 November 2002 08:08
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: mitchell on Fri, 08 November 2002 19:14
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Ron on Wed, 06 November 2002 15:28
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: BlueTurbit on Fri, 08 November 2002 13:05
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Coyote on Fri, 08 November 2002 17:06
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: BlueTurbit on Fri, 08 November 2002 20:52
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Apelord on Sat, 09 November 2002 00:46
		Adding "target list overload" bug [Was: Cheats you like to play?] By: Micha on Sat, 09 November 2002 08:35
		Re: Adding "target list overload" bug [Was: Cheats you like to play?] By: Apelord on Sat, 09 November 2002 11:02
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: McKulz on Sun, 10 November 2002 09:38
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: JamesWD on Mon, 11 November 2002 04:11
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: McKulz on Mon, 11 November 2002 15:54
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Wayne on Mon, 11 November 2002 19:24
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: McKulz on Tue, 12 November 2002 13:42
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: JamesWD on Wed, 13 November 2002 07:38
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Apelord on Wed, 13 November 2002 17:47
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Robert on Thu, 14 November 2002 15:36
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Coyote on Thu, 14 November 2002 16:47
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Robert on Thu, 14 November 2002 17:16
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Robert on Thu, 14 November 2002 17:52
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: ccmaster on Thu, 14 November 2002 18:33
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Coyote on Thu, 14 November 2002 20:14
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: ccmaster on Thu, 14 November 2002 20:51
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Robert on Fri, 15 November 2002 03:18
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Micha on Fri, 15 November 2002 10:26
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Apelord on Thu, 14 November 2002 20:12
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: UAF commander on Fri, 15 November 2002 03:09
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: BlueTurbit on Fri, 15 November 2002 11:46
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: ccmaster on Fri, 15 November 2002 11:51
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: UAF commander on Fri, 15 November 2002 12:35
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Bearhard on Fri, 15 November 2002 15:40
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: EDog on Fri, 15 November 2002 15:43
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: FurFuznel on Fri, 15 November 2002 16:14
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: BlueTurbit on Fri, 15 November 2002 16:41
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Ron on Fri, 15 November 2002 17:43
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: EDog on Sat, 16 November 2002 11:11
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Wayne on Mon, 18 November 2002 02:16
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: ccmaster on Mon, 18 November 2002 20:44
		Is this a cheat??? By: Robert on Sun, 24 November 2002 17:55
		Re: Is this a cheat??? By: EDog on Mon, 25 November 2002 20:11
		Re: Is this a cheat??? By: Stalwart on Tue, 26 November 2002 13:12
		Re: Is this a cheat??? By: Apelord on Thu, 12 December 2002 23:39
		Re: Is this a cheat??? By: Dogthinkers on Tue, 02 September 2003 00:34
		Re: Is this a cheat??? By: Robert on Tue, 02 September 2003 09:39
		Re: Is this a cheat??? By: Robert on Tue, 02 September 2003 09:40
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: UAF commander on Fri, 15 November 2002 18:22
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: ccmaster on Fri, 15 November 2002 23:41
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Apelord on Sun, 17 November 2002 13:47
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Mischief on Sun, 08 December 2002 18:36
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: jeffimix on Sun, 08 December 2002 19:57
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: mitchell on Mon, 09 December 2002 12:32
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: tprescott on Wed, 11 December 2002 22:59
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: BlueTurbit on Wed, 11 December 2002 23:09
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Robert on Tue, 02 September 2003 09:42
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: Robert on Sat, 25 October 2003 08:05
		Re: Cheats you like to play? By: EDog on Thu, 12 December 2002 20:35

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