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Storms and tricks with \'em
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My Eternal enemy, the deceiver of all deceivers, really messed me up recently by utilizing storms. He was building Ringworlds underneath Opague storms and I didn't even know it! IN A SYSTEM I HAVE COLONIES IN! Ok OK I shoulda had some good scanners, but What are some other good storm tricks? How many types of storms are there?
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May 6th, 2003, 06:15 PM
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Re: Storms and tricks with \'em
 I thought you could only build ringworlds around stars? |
May 6th, 2003, 06:25 PM
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Re: Storms and tricks with \'em
If you build a storm over a star, it will obscure any ships in the sector. I forget if it obscurs the star too or not.
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Re: Storms and tricks with \'em
NO KIDDING!?! any type of storm over a star and the enemy can't see my ships in that system??
Amazing! are you sure? wow.
Anyone ever tried putting a shield nullifying (sp) storm over a colony? Planets don't have sheilds but ships do right? so eliminating the ships sheilds seems like a good idea.
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May 6th, 2003, 06:45 PM
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Re: Storms and tricks with \'em
You find yourself in a system where you are out classed by local forces
If there is is a damaging storm (or asteroid field)
If you can reach it befor they reach you
You will loose but the other ships might be damaged also.
I assume this type of damage does not skip shields so this tactic is not very useful once they are wide spread. Still it shows spunk.
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Re: Storms and tricks with \'em
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Originally posted by Laurus:
Anyone ever tried putting a shield nullifying (sp) storm over a colony? Planets don't have sheilds but ships do right? so eliminating the ships sheilds seems like a good idea.
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If I'm not mistaken if there is a storm that eliminates shields in a certain sector then all items in that sector have no shields, planets, ships, bases, etc...
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Re: Storms and tricks with \'em
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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
If you build a storm over a star, it will obscure any ships in the sector. I forget if it obscurs the star too or not.
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Oooo, no it won't. The star will be visible, and will always be on top in the system view. So unless you happen to notice the little number 2 that showed up on a certain turn next to the star, or happend to click on the star for some reason, you wouldn't even see the storm. Slick trick. 
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NO KIDDING!?! any type of storm over a star and the enemy can't see my ships in that system??
Amazing! are you sure? wow.
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I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic or not, but I meant sight obscuring storms, not just any storm. |
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Re: Storms and tricks with \'em
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Anyone ever tried putting a shield nullifying (sp) storm over a colony? Planets don't have sheilds but ships do right? so eliminating the ships sheilds seems like a good idea.
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If I'm not mistaken if there is a storm that eliminates shields in a certain sector then all items in that sector have no shields, planets, ships, bases, etc...
Those storms don't nullify shields completely, they just subtract 5000 or so from the max.
If you have more than 5000 planetary shields, or a starbase full of shield generators, you can still have shields left in combat.
A shielded planet vs a bunch of shield-disabled ships will be quite quite devastating to the attackers...
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Re: Storms and tricks with \'em
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The star will be visible, and ... you wouldn't even see the storm. Slick trick.
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Slick indeed.
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Anyone ever tried putting a shield nullifying (sp) storm over a colony? Planets don't have sheilds but ships do right? so eliminating the ships sheilds seems like a good idea.
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You would be better off building Shield WPs on the planet, I believe. Planets can have Shields, and they're competitively priced.
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