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Re: Cheats you like to play?

Thu, 14 November 2002 15:36

Robert

Lt. Junior Grade

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Registered: November 2002
Location: Dortmund, Germany

beamers beat chaff?
not really, you can put shields to chaff to make them harder
for beamers to destroy, or even great shields on them, so
beamers will target other beamers first, not chaff...

there are other ways to beat chaff...
so battle-plan any/any/disengage with a move 1 range 5 or 6 missle kills everything with move bigger 1. and chaff usually have move 1 or 3/4... this can do real damage to your move 1.25 rockets and 2.25 beamers, which are no more protected by chaff.

so if you feel too save behind your chaff... you shouldnt.
this might bring some counter to chaff, but also brings an
advantage to warmongers, who can have chaff moving 1.5 or so...

also if fighting in an alliance you can invite up to 3 more
players to the battle, and if they are the right ones you have
your enenmy starting in range 4 from your base. putting gattlings
to the base make them hit all chaff and beamers and "stupid"
rockets in turn 1...

and gone are your chaffs...

what i really hate about chaff is the chaff-sweeping.
it nearly negates the effect of minefields... if the enemy
wants to spend some chaff, minefields are just useless...
i hate this...

ok... back to the topic...

i think about cheating in another way, not just if intended by
the game or not, or having a realisic similar thing in RL...
if a cheat is hard to detect by others, it might ruin my fun in
a game, when i am not sure if others use it or not. so if i am
not using the cheap starbase trick, i will always feel bad because i beleive the others might do... so i think if a cheat
is not detectable and does not have a major influence on the game,
it should be allowed...

so if i ever host a game again, i will officially allow cheap
starbases. it has a major impact in the beginning, ok. but later
it is not really a matter... you lose 2 rounds of production when
using it... is it worth that?
it makes the game a bit different from style of play, as the one
who gets the planet first will keep it for a while... some day
starbases will be useless to defend agains an attack, so who cares.
ok - it makes AR races weak, as they cant use the trick. it also
hepls PP, as they are still able to kill the planet, regardles of
the base...
as i dont like AR, but love PP (really!), i like to allow it to
everybody...

and think what happens if you build all that basis on all your
planets, something goes wrong and one of them is finished...
desaster! (e.g. pop from IS frighers drop and produce...)

its not that easy to use, and once jihads are out the better
bases are no longer that powerful.

i think cheap starbases are ok, but chaffsweeping is not.
(of course ONLY if it is officially allowed and used by
all players!!!)
Surprised

so far so good

robert

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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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