Newbie Q4 (suggestion?) Viewing ranges

derb · #1 February 12th, 2002, 09:37 PM

Is there any way to view the known range of an opponent's weapons on-screen so you can carefully maneuver your own ships out of range? This would be particularly useful when dealing with heavily fortified worlds.

Even better would be if it also factored in the speed of target ships as well so you could make sure you ended up far enough away that he couldn't hit you even if he headed straight for you.

The AI, incidentally, doesn't seem to be very good at making my ships that are trying for "max range" avoid falling into range by accident.

Val · #2 February 12th, 2002, 09:43 PM

Can't you right click on them if your scanners are better than their jammers? Maybe I was seeing things...

derb · #3 February 12th, 2002, 09:51 PM

Sorry - I should have been clearer - I mean couldn't the ranges be actually shown on the main combat screen so you don't have to look at the enemy units and count squares from them to you!

mottlee · #4 February 12th, 2002, 10:53 PM

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Originally posted by derb:
Sorry - I should have been clearer - I mean couldn't the ranges be actually shown on the main combat screen so you don't have to look at the enemy units and count squares from them to you!

Trying to take the guess work out of it??

derb · #5 February 13th, 2002, 12:54 AM

Well, if you are a careful counter there is no guess work involved - so why not make it a little easier to avoid tedious counting?

Suicide Junkie · #6 February 13th, 2002, 01:08 AM

Select your ship, and mouse-over the enemy.
The current range-to target will be shown in the right side of the screen amongst your ships' shield/armor meters.

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Size = Cruiser
Dist = 32