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Capital Ship with missing components - 2/20/2013 9:13:38 PM

Fishers of Men

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An interesting thing happened in my latest game. In the first year of my empire, my explorer ship discovered an abandoned capital ship. It was named Aggressor of Usatemu, and it had very advanced components among which included fighter bays. But checking how many fighters were available on board, none were present.

I was just at the beginning level of the Weapons branch of research in my empire, of which fighter bays had not been research yet. As soon as I researched that fighter tech, fighters appeared on the captured capital ship. While other advanced components on that ship were not research yet for my empire, but operated correctly, the fighter bay did not.

I don't know if others have experience this, but could you look into this oversight?

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RE: Capital Ship with missing components - 2/20/2013 10:39:52 PM

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Because fighters need to be built, I get the feeling you needed the tech first even though there were bays present. (Your empire just didn't know how to build the actual fighters yet)

I think the other higher-end components should function normally regardless of your own tech levels.

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RE: Capital Ship with missing components - 2/21/2013 9:21:52 PM

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I see what you are saying StarLab, but I don't believe it should work this way. This abandoned capital ship left there by an advanced race with advanced weapons beyond my empire's level, should have fighters and bombers working on board. I think it was an oversight in the code and this was left out by mistake. That's just the way I see it and I hope Elliot can take a look at this when he has some time.

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RE: Capital Ship with missing components - 2/21/2013 10:38:11 PM

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Both ways make some sense. Fighters are automatically upgraded/replaced and that is hard if you don't have fighter tech. It could make sense to only have the fighters they start with...

One can also argue that the fighters were lost during the end of the previous ownership, and you have to find new ones yourself... How do you think they abandoned it, anyways

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RE: Capital Ship with missing components - 2/23/2013 5:49:29 PM

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If you didn't researched the starting Tech at Fighter, your Ship's can't produce fighters even they got Fighter Bays.

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RE: Capital Ship with missing components - 4/5/2013 1:50:19 AM

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Think of it this way instead:

The ship was obviously part of the war with the original Shakturi. So we can assume that it at some point fought and all of its fighters were destroyed. Since your empire had not yet researched fighters you did not have pilots capable of flying star fighters and because of this your crew saw no reason to build them.

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