Re: VGA Planets -- Players needed

From: simons@plains.NoDak.edu (C. Patrick Simons)

Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1993 01:07:56 +0000

In article <C1u3ou.BBo@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rmg53668@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ryan M. Grant) writes:
>thamilto@fnugget.intel.com (Tony Hamilton) writes:
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>>I'm still waiting to hear from someone what the TRANSPORTATION, DEFENSE, and
>>PATROL missions do, in game terms.
>
>Useless.  It may be convienent to keep track of what ships are assigned what
>roles, but there are no documented uses for any of these.  Transportation
>can be accomplished on Exploration missions, and Defense and Patrol are
>unnecessary since if you run into someone you will fight them regardless.

Nope. Sorry.  I gotta argue on this one.  You can set things up so if a
convoy get's intercepted, the warship will fight first, not the freightor.

What you do is set the destination of the warship, and give it the mission
of Defend.  You then take a freightor, loaded such that it will travel
at the same speed as the warship, and give it the mission Intercept.
This will cause the cargo ship to stay with the warship, and the warship
will intercept all those nasty small picket ships that keep trying to pick
off your cargo's.

Of course, if you get intercepted by a capital ship, .... 8-)

>Their uses may be realized in a future version however, and that might be why
>they're there now.  (By being so certain in my answer I am assured that if
>I am wrong, someone will bother to point it out.  I cannot of course be
>_absolutley_ certain since they could be as-of-yet undocumented features.)
>

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>
>- Ryan Grant

-=C. Patrick Simons
simons@plains.NoDak.edu
ud078317@vm1.NoDak.edu

References

Re: VGA Planets -- Players needed
wws@sunray.att.com (Bill Stoll)
Mon, 01 Feb 1993 19:39:00 +0000
Re: VGA Planets -- Players needed
thamilto@fnugget.intel.com (Tony Hamilton)
Tue, 02 Feb 1993 16:41:37 +0000
Re: VGA Planets -- Players needed
rmg53668@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ryan M. Grant)
Tue, 02 Feb 1993 18:36:30 +0000

Referenced By

Re: VGA Planets -- Players needed
wws@sunray.att.com (Bill Stoll)
Mon, 01 Feb 1993 19:39:00 +0000
Re: VGA Planets -- Players needed
thamilto@fnugget.intel.com (Tony Hamilton)
Tue, 02 Feb 1993 16:41:37 +0000
Re: VGA Planets -- Players needed
rmg53668@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ryan M. Grant)
Tue, 02 Feb 1993 18:36:30 +0000