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Re: Possible new utility for creating testbeds Wed, 25 February 2009 16:50 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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PaulCr wrote on Thu, 26 February 2009 10:02

You can't colonise and build a base the same turn, ie say your enemy has pen scans covering his entire territory, you get a cloaked fleet in and colonise a planet, no matter what you do he will see that the planet has been colonised before you can get a gate up, if you colonise has a WP0 order it will do production from the autoqueue so you could get defenses up but you can't change the queue until you get the turn file back, your enemy will see that you've sneaked in a coloniser, will expect you to be putting a gate up and will send a fleet to knock it down before you are able to gate in reinforcements since the reinforcements can only gate in the turn after the base is up.
If you colonise as a WP1 order the same happens except you don't do any production at all so you can't even get defenses up.
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I believe the answer lies in having multiple cloaked decoy fleets that colonize with a minimum population, and then only dumping population on a few to build defense/gates. Of course Ive never successfully done it either... Rolling Eyes

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