When all planets are lost?

Ruatha · #1 March 25th, 2004, 07:02 AM

If I have 300 dreadnoughts, unfortunately in enemy territory and not at home.
I live on trade incomes solely and looses my few remaining planets, so I have no planets left, what happens?

If my planets where to be cut off from contact with the rest by wormhole closing I'd loose contact with the other races and loose my trade income. Will that happen also if I loose all my planets?

atari_eric · #2 March 25th, 2004, 07:05 AM

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Originally posted by Ruatha:
If I have 300 dreadnoughts, unfortunately in enemy territory and not at home.
I live on trade incomes solely and looses my few remaining planets, so I have no planets left, what happens?

If my planets where to be cut off from contact with the rest by wormhole closing I'd loose contact with the other races and loose my trade income. Will that happen also if I loose all my planets?

Yes. Either find a way to defend those planets, or build A LOT of mining sats/ships.

dogscoff · #3 March 25th, 2004, 09:09 AM

Might be worth building a few colonisers as well. Even if there's nothing to colonise, they might come in handy soon.

Or better yet, troop transports. If you're running out of planets... steal someone else's=-)

Greybeard · #4 March 25th, 2004, 04:04 PM

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Originally posted by Ruatha:
Will that happen also if I loose all my planets?

If you lose all of your planets, you continue to survive and can play. However, you lose contact with all other races, even if you can see them. I had about 15 bases in a limited resources game, but when I lost the Last planet, I was cut off. In another game, after losing all of my planets, I even colonized an empty planet but could never regain contact with any other empire. It is a very good idea to avoid this situation.

Puke · #5 March 25th, 2004, 04:41 PM

I have seen races regain contact after losing all planets. you have to re-establish contact manually, by having mutual line of sight between ships or planets.

if you cant get back to defend your planets, or its strategically unviable - and your 300+ DNs are important to you allies, have them give you a little moon or something, and of course have them keep gifting you enough resources to pay your maintainance. keep in mind that resource storage will be a problem once your planets are gone, so maybe have them give you some storage facilities, or build them as soon as they give you a planet.

Ruatha · #6 March 25th, 2004, 09:41 PM

I recruited a trusted ally to defend my remaining systems (and kill off the intruders) and will divert all my dreads into the territory of the race that are hitting me with intel attacks (And subverting my planets).
I need to take territory to build more intel facilities, and by glassing his planets the intel attacks will diminish!