| Re: Using packet scanners / giving away PRT |
Tue, 23 November 2004 09:49   |
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| Micha | 
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Registered: November 2002
Location: Belgium GMT +1 | |
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I have met very few PPs ... I can think of only two ... one in a teamgame (4 teams of 3) and one in a med size game, solo victory only. That last one was played by vonKreedon, and he masked his PRT until later in the game. I think he didn't use packets for early scanning, or I missed them which seems unlikely since I started close to his HW ...
So suddenly he started throwing small packets around at high speeds, can't remember the exact year ... later than 2460 i think ... Anyway we had an NAP (friendly, but not _that_ friendly since only one could win, he always kept me at a distance, if you read some posts from him about solo victory games and large alliances you'll understand) and my reaction was to build defenses and massdrivers at the border planets and LF fleets to lift up pop.
Showing his PPness made me spend/waste some resources and minerals into maybe "unnecessary" stuff, but nothing more than that. 1-2 turns after I saw he was PP I was prepared for a packet attack, and his PRT was "useless". He would have needed the regular warfare like any other regular race to get to me ...
Just to say that I don't see why in that case the player masked his PRT ... maybe for not looking like a target early in game? It was of no use for him later in the game, unless he had attacked me or somebody else with a full spread packet attack (before showing his PRT), with of course fleets and pop to back it up and take the dead planets ...
mch
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