An extremely silly question, buut...

PowerManatee · #1 June 3rd, 2002, 03:07 AM

How do you stop maintaining ships that are away from a space yard and are out of supplies, with no way to return and is essentially useless? Or is there a way?

It just seems obvious that there should be a way to abandon a ship, but I haven't found it anywhere. Of course scrapping/mothball is disabled, considering the nearest space yard is light years away. I just want to rid myself of these ships.

If there isn't, someone has got to reply with a good reason why

Cause it won't make a lot of sense. Admit it

How silly does it seem if you HAVE to supply a ship with maintanence even though it is totally useless to you? Pretty proposterous to me.

Happy gaming,

Fyron · #2 June 3rd, 2002, 03:14 AM

There is no way to arbitrarily stop supporting a ship that is away from a space yard.

If you put a Self Destruct Device on your ship, you can have it blow itself up at will.

If you have another ship around (and in the same sector), you can have it fire on and destroy the target ship.

Gryphin · #3 June 3rd, 2002, 12:46 PM

Or, you can Trade it to an ally. That is cruel and taking advantage of the AI but if you are deparate....

Taz-in-Space · #4 June 3rd, 2002, 05:45 PM

You can also run the ship into:
1. a Black Hole
2. a damaging storm
3. A damaging Warp point

Gryphin · #5 June 3rd, 2002, 05:53 PM

But Taz, that would kill the crew.

Taera · #6 June 3rd, 2002, 09:15 PM

Ethical questions huh?

Gryphin · #7 June 3rd, 2002, 10:05 PM

Taera,
It is for me.

I will not glass a planet, start a war, or anything along those lines.
Literaly, I can't.
I've been playing for over 20 years and I won't change.
"Nice guys finish Last, but we do so with pride."

oleg · #8 June 4th, 2002, 03:52 AM

PowerManatee,

Build a ship with nothing but supply storage and solar batteries (quantum reactor is best, but likely you did not research it yet), send her to your fleet. Next turn, it will be recharged.

Taz-in-Space · #9 June 4th, 2002, 11:47 AM

The 'High' Gryphin, Giving a crew to an Alien empire is in my opinion even more cruel!!

An empire that would do this would probabily do other nasty things like, ummm... steal a pizza!

Gryphin · #10 June 4th, 2002, 12:50 PM

Taz, ::
< inocent expression > I was doing it for his own good.
But you did give me an idea for a ship class.