Now this is Funny/Strange!

[Deathstalker]

I am playing a game with full AI on just to test/tweak some more AI's (re-working Starwars Empire I and the Y'Gath some more) and everything is going fine, then the AI I am watching has an event hit it (low occurance, catasrophic level), suddenly one of its Base Space Yards is teleported halfway accross the map into a nebula system. So they now effectively have a hidden base that produces ships. Mighty strange, I could see a ship being 'blown' off course but a base?

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"The Empress took your name away," said Chance.
Owen smiled coldly. "It wasn't hers to take. I'm a Deathstalker until I die. And we never forget a slight or an enemy." -Owen Deathstalker.

[geoschmo]

It would be so cool if we this could be controlled and done on command. We could have a component that would do this and have a true "warp drive".

Geoschmo

[Yojinbo]

This happend to one of my SY bases once. I immeadibly decided to upgrade the SY to lvl3 so I could start cranking out the ships - but I forgot to retrofit it with a repair unit first. The end resulting was a retrofitted base with damaged componenets 5 systems away form my nearest repair ship.

[Deathstalker]

Damn, the AI just scrapped the base, getting hammered by the Borg. Too bad the AI can't figure out the strategic importance of that base when it was 5 systems away in a nebula.

[capnq]

Man, that's even worse than the time I had a mothballed scout warped out of the isolated cluster I was stuck in.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[geoschmo]

ROFL! I remember that happening! We had a big thread talking about the poor janitor on that mothballed ship being stranded lightyears from home on a ship with no way to get home.

Geo