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Caesar_Augustus -> Resupply ships and deploy/undeploy (2/2/2011 5:13:48 PM)
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Just in case this is some sort of oddity, here is a progressive post of findings:
1. I've been having trouble refueling my ships at one such refueling vessel. I most probably am missing something.
I managed to order it to "deploy" at a gas giant but once it starts to "deploy", before "filling up" those 30 seconds, it almost immediately starts to "undeploy", so even if I order another ship to refuel at the refuling vessel, it gets over to it but obviously it does NOT refuel... I wonder what I'm doing wrong?
2. I tried deploying a new RS vessel that I edited on to the game via the game editor. It is "deployed" and I have been able to refuel a ship finally! The only thing new that I did was change the battle stance of the RS ship to attack only when attacked; I don't know if that matters for deploying but this worked, at least, whereas before (without this change in the battle stance) it did not with other RS ships already in the game...
3. I have figured out that NO, the battle stance has no effect whatsoever (as it should not).
Onboard weapons, yes, and also fighters, but this should not matter at all.
Once, a RS ship was deployed (automatically) in a gas cloud and came under attack by Kaltors.
My understanding is that there is a general impression that RS ships while deployed cannot attack but that is not so!
It repelled them succesfully, but then proceded to undeploy automatically.
4. I am pretty certain now (will test again thanks to autosave!) that an auto-deploy RS ship in that gas cloud did indeed
come under attack by Kaltors (not by enemy ships) and while it was deployed, it launched its complement of fighters and succesfully fired its onboard weapons. After klling off the space beasts, it proceeded to undeploy, and I believe it was due to the fact the some onboard ship systems had been damaged; in fact, that's when I tried deploying again several times, but could not do so because an automatic repair order overrided my own orders to deploy (yes, overrided my very own imperial orders!)
It was most interesting: I observed that the RS ship auto-navigated to a repair base, repaired, and then, without doing anything myself, automatically proceeded with a deploy order to that very same gas cloud it had been atacked by Kaltors before! Just a coinicidence or did the RS ship "remember" my imperial order to deploy at that gas cloud??
How about that?
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