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DMC-13
Admiral
Evil Empires Inc.
Joined: February 16, 2008
Posts: 187
From: Huntington Beach, California, USA
|  Posted: 2008-03-13 02:37
When mining, both ships have to be facing the planet which makes it very difficult to escape from a surprise attack. Could it be possible to have the mining beams work without facing the planet? Also, could the Extractor have better defence such as armor/shield or an early warning system such as a long range sensor to give them a chance to escape?
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Eledore Massis [R33]
Grand Admiral
Templar Knights
Joined: May 26, 2002
Posts: 2694
From: tsohlacoLocalhost
| Posted: 2008-03-13 16:56
This is only a problem on large planets.
Medium and small still allow you to mine at the arc angle and therefor allow you a instant E-jump.
About the sensors, even if in the event the gave it a 20K gu sensor range. it would get exploited.
End even if it had one it only would give you 4 more seconds if the enemy is jumping to your location, doze a little of and your still the same.
About the armor; i would only consider one full armor a option, but even in that case i find that a waste of spawn resources.
You mine for credits, you either do it in the safety of a well defended planet with a dictorfield giving you extra seconds to escape. Or if you don't care to lose the +/-10 negative prestige the death would give you.
If you want to mine, grab a extractor.
If you want to resupply a front line base with resources, grab a transport; same amount of cargo slots, and overall better in defense and PD armament.
And remember
- Do not attack engineers
- Do not attack extractors
- Do not bomb mining planets
- Do not capture shipyard planets
(ok on occasions i break this last rule. but thats because i usually build two shipyards for one faction and than switch over to the other faction and capture one of the two. its faster and more fun for all)
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DMC-13
Admiral
Evil Empires Inc.
Joined: February 16, 2008
Posts: 187
From: Huntington Beach, California, USA
| Posted: 2008-03-13 18:39
Ok, thanks. I'll remember that. I was just thinking what if the fleet had moved on to another system and left the engineer and extractor to rebuild the newly conquered system and a rogue enemy was on the hunt behind the boundry lines. That's ok, I guess I just have a different idea on how the extractor would work. I explained it in the post called anything and everything in the Bete testing folder after your reply. Anyway, thanks again, Beta is definitely different.
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