satellites and black holes

[freduk]

I wish to employ a massive enginedestroyer sat group after a warp point leading to a black hole. Can this work or will the sats get sucked to the center of the black hole as well???

[Randallw]

I tried placing mines at a warp point in a randomn movement system. My minelayer moves about though and the mines move to the same sectors, so as mines are units I would say "yes, units are affected by forced movement"

[primitive]

Yes, the sats would move.

If you have the QR, you could try to put a sat layer ship on repeat orders and make it pick up and replace the sats each turn. It will take a couple of moves of each turn to replace them though, so the warppoint will be undefended early each turn.
This might work on the AI, but I don�t think any human players would fall for it

[Suicide Junkie]

The problem is that while your ship is moving TO the warppoint, the enemy ships will have warped through already.

[Baron Munchausen]

Depending on the location of the warp point relative to the edge of the system, you might be able to drop mines/sats 'beyond' the warp point and they will be drawn to it each turn. For sats, you can have a couple of ships picking them up as they 'slide past' and taking them back up to the launch point. For mines, you'll have to live with a constant stream of mines falling into the black hole. Probably you would need a SYS/minelayer combo to keep the mines constantly in place because delivery would be a real pain.

[ July 03, 2004, 00:29: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Raging Deadstar]

What trully is evil is those systems with random ship movement and dropping small ammounts of mines randomly in that system, when you have enough it really is fiendish