SEIV: Iran Contra Scandal - Page 2

PvK · #11 July 3rd, 2006, 04:33 PM

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Dizzy said:
... I wonder if once they are gifted the last orders I had for them are canceled and new orders are given.
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Yes, orders get cleared when ships are gifted to another empire. In simultaneous movement mode, this means the ships won't have any orders for the month they are transferred.

geoschmo · #12 July 3rd, 2006, 04:48 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
You can't retrofit to an exactly identical design, and you better hope the ships don't rely on a bunch of racial techs.

I can't remmeber, will it let you retrofit to a design with the same components in a different order? Or is it smart enough to realize that is the same design?

Fyron · #13 July 3rd, 2006, 04:59 PM

You can not do that either.

Phoenix-D · #14 July 3rd, 2006, 05:16 PM

So just drop an engine down one level (III to II) or a gun, or exchange a shield gen for a weapon.

If its racially built or you need it NOW, you're out of luck, but beggars can't be choosers.

Renegade 13 · #15 July 3rd, 2006, 07:09 PM

Whoops, guess I was just being a little dense; shoulda seen that.

Randallw · #16 July 4th, 2006, 01:27 AM

Now I've got to admit I didn't know you could refit ships from another empire. I thought it wouldn't work because they have different pictures.

Dizzy · #17 July 4th, 2006, 03:59 AM

Will the AI refit one of your gifted ships you gave them? And if they do Im sure their portrait will change as do mine when I refit captured enemy designs, but will they change the ship name?

I like tracking what they do with my ships I gift.

PvK · #18 July 5th, 2006, 05:36 PM

The AI never re-names any ships.

The ship picture changes during a refit, unfortunately. I've been disappointed by that since SE3.

Another thing you can do, if you don't mind losing some flexibility, is to put a gifted ship into a fleet whose strategy is set to NOT break formation. This way the fleet strategy will override the ship strategy, so you won't have to worry about the gifting nation giving your ships a lame strategy (at least, not until damage forces the ship to break formation, in which case some of the design strategy might be used, but formation is broken mainly when the ship loses its weapons IIRC).

Dizzy · #19 July 5th, 2006, 06:50 PM

Well, something wrong here. 3 of the gifted ships I gave are sitting in the same spot for the last 3 turns. Why hasnt the AI sent them somewhere? They are just hanging out in empty space no where useful.

Dizzy · #20 July 8th, 2006, 09:02 PM

Bump.

Well, its been a year or so and those three ships are still sitting in the same spot...

They have used another ship I gave them and ran it all over the map. Why not the other 3? They are just sitting there using up resources.