When all planets are lost?

[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?

[atari_eric]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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!

[trooper]

It won't work. Admit you have lost.


[ March 26, 2004, 10:47: Message edited by: trooper ]

[Yef]

That sounds like an epic game.

[Cheeze]

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!!



There is something to be said for going out swinging! He may go down, but he's not going down alone!

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by trooper:
It won't work. Admit you have lost.

I'll let my actions talk for me from now on......

Btw, what do you people think of my plan B?
If I see that I'm about to loose my Last planets, I decided I'll give all those ships to one of my former enemies, who has stopped attacking me and now have a trade treaty with me, rather than having the ships stolen by intel attacks by an even worse enemy or being lost to maintnace shortage if I loose my planets...

It would propably tip the balance in his favour and give him the victory in this game, but I would see it as a well earned victory as he has played the diplomatic card better than his counterparts...

(I hope someone sees the subtle hint here and starts to make amends...if he want's to keep that little fleet that has irresponsibly found it's way into my territory... )

[ March 26, 2004, 19:56: Message edited by: Ruatha ]