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Re: Split Fleet Proposal

Tue, 24 June 2008 04:53

m.a@stars

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Adacore wrote on Tue, 24 June 2008 07:54

It still sounds like more micromanagement to me. Tactically useful, perhaps, but still time consuming - you'd have to look at the journey you expected the group to take and create fleets which allowed you to split in any of the ways you could imagine wanting to during that journey...

Yep. That's why I'm still not sure it can be done right. And if you cannot guarantee a minimum of almost-split-like flexibility, then nobody will want to fly under those restrictions. Shocked

The 1st exception that comes to mind is crash-sweeping of minefields with chaff. It can be construed as a special case where you detach a "suicidal sweep" fleet of (n) cheapest ships, to be actually split by the server, but even that could be too restricted and open undesirable loopholes.

Other tricky instances could be:

Deal

cloaked fleets detaching spyships, skirmishers, bombers et al while on the move

Deal

attackers splitting their bombers to hit several undefended targets at once (something hard to foresee)

So many Stars, so few Missiles!

In space no one can hear you scheme! Deal

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		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Fri, 20 June 2008 20:02
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: gible on Fri, 20 June 2008 20:44
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: Coyote on Sat, 21 June 2008 04:54
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: Adacore on Sat, 21 June 2008 05:28
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: gible on Sat, 21 June 2008 07:09
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: ck_drknes on Sat, 21 June 2008 11:15
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: Coyote on Sat, 21 June 2008 15:39
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: ck_drknes on Sat, 21 June 2008 17:32
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Mon, 23 June 2008 14:23
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: ck_drknes on Mon, 23 June 2008 23:18
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: Adacore on Tue, 24 June 2008 01:54
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Tue, 24 June 2008 04:53
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Tue, 24 June 2008 04:59
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		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Tue, 29 July 2008 05:05
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: Adacore on Tue, 29 July 2008 00:06
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Tue, 29 July 2008 05:06
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: LEit on Tue, 29 July 2008 10:43
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Wed, 30 July 2008 15:24
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: craebild on Wed, 30 July 2008 16:16
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		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Tue, 26 August 2008 03:32
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