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You don't even need to look around in most battles. There is a list of enemies in the navigation window with the size of the ship and distance from you. You can target and fire at them without actually knowing where they are around you. Autopilot warps you to whatever distant object you tell it to. The only problem comes when there are objects close to you (random asteroids in missions, the station when you exit it) if they are between the object you are warping to and your ship. That is easy enough to get around though. Just find where the object is you are running into and double-click somewhere other than it.
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I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site). -
Oooh, cool. I'll probably get killed more often by colliding into stuff than anything else but that sounds easier to navigate then I'd thought. I'll probably sign up come June when my schedule opens up a bit. Some of my old DAoC guildies are a corp in the Knights of the Southerncross alliance and they're the sort that wouldn't mind a newbie tagging along.Stop Quoting BenComment
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Running into things doesn't get you killed. It just stops you warping out until you fly clear of it or the autopilot bumps its way around it. Of course if you are running away from attacking ships, that delay may still be enough to get you killed.
I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).Comment
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That's why I'm going to be a little ship hiding in a big swarm of little shipsOriginally posted by Skanky Burns
Running into things doesn't get you killed. It just stops you warping out until you fly clear of it or the autopilot bumps its way around it. Of course if you are running away from attacking ships, that delay may still be enough to get you killed.
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Umm, because of tracking effects of turrets and the velocity effects of missiles, losing speed can get you killed.
Just want to clear that up.
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Its not a guarantee of getting killed though, unlike say Elite. There, crashing into something ruined your day.I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).Comment
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Sure... and I wasn't a good farm sirOriginally posted by Spaced Cowboy
Ah, snoopy, the perfect farm.
Are you sure we can't talk you into starting all over again. ahem, near me? Our strat was well rounded to keep us alive, and aimed for some really good techs. We had the advantage that in the early game, the distance to travel was so high versus speed that your galaxy defense would save you easily against anything but the most absurd force, so you could afford to build up a lot of resources earlier on as long as you had a decent defense tech focus.
We did well until our alliance lost to one of the larger alliances ... we had been a part of a tripartite alliance that was the largest, but when that fell apart we lost quickly to one of the other two major alliances. Sigh. Politics was quite confusing back then
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At my home planet, there is a debris field with 34.8k metal and 21.6k crystal.
What would be the negative consequences if I just let it be? Does it attract much attention, considering that debris field sizes are known to the rest of the world without espionage?
What would be the positive consequences if I just let it be? Is there a larger chance of creating a moon as the amount of debris increases? Also, is the honeypot factor advantageous?
Lastly, how do I harvest the debris, if I want to? I have a recycler at the planet, but the harvest option is grayed out.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Not a lot of negative consequences, I would say the biggest negative is giving up the free resources to someone else.
Positive consequences? Again, I don't see any. A moon would only be created as a one shot, having a debris field there and getting attacked again won't give you a greater chance of a moon.
Lastly, yes you should definitely havest the debris field. The greyed out option you are seeing is only available for Commander users and lets them havest debris fields with less keystrokes.
For you to havest the debris field, send your fleet (recycler) from the Fleet menu and when you choose a planet you will have the option of changing "Planet" to either "Moon" or "Debris" (you need to choose debris). It should take you about 7 minutes one way to the debris field, so with only one recycler you can havest that debris field in 3 trips (or roughly 45 minutes).
Hope this helps!
/me
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Spaced Cowboy's ABCs of Debris fields:
To harvest:
Go to the fleet screen, select you rec and go to the next screen. Right nect to where you set the coords for the target, there is a drop down that says planet. Select that and you'll see DF and moon as the other two options. You want DF. Go to the next screen and you'll see one of you missions (possibly the only one) is harvest. Let the puppy fly!
Negative consequences:
It looks like you were crashed and you probably were, or someone attacked you and lost ships to your defenses. Either way ships died to create the debris.
Now if you had a fleet there and I wanted to crash you I'd have a head start for my recyclers which travel about 1/3 the speed of your attack ships. For big crashes people will usually crash one ESP probe on the defender's defenses to have a target to send the recyclers to before they send the fleet, so no one else will poach the debris field. You can't send recyclers on a harvest mission when there is no debris field. Also one probe creates a debris field...you just can't see it.
Positives:
Not many, but you could fleetsave to it in a pinch, just make sure you have a rec in your fleet composition...I never leave any debris in orbit above my planets.
Nearly anyone who scans me will loose the probes and they'll have to send quite a few to get a look. I call this a crystal donation.
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Excellent overview on the tactics of debris fields. Thank you very much.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Looks like sparrow and I cross posted.We're sorry, the voices in my head are not available at this time. Please try back again soon.Comment
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Actually this is quite a cool free game. I joined. Did anyone else here join. Not as deep a time sink as other games.
If so where are you.
I am there as Boru and my alliance is Brian.On the ISDG 2012 team at the heart of CiviLIZationComment
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I am on Server 2. Not in an alliance yet, though a few have asked me to join.
I am Sparrowhawk (big surprise there ).
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Hey Sparrowhawk I am on Server 2 as well.On the ISDG 2012 team at the heart of CiviLIZationComment
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