Sun Mar 02, 2003 2:12 am
Few questions.
First of all is combat.
I read somewhere that there is a command you can use to just follow a ship. It sounded like the command would attempt it's best to match direction and speed with the ship you're trying to follow, is there such a command? Pretty much my battles go like this: Press R to get closest target, hit spacebar to enter mouse flight, and do my best to aim at the + in front of my targeted ship. Am I doing anything wrong? How do other people fight? Sometimes it seems like my guns aim themselves, which is cool, is this me having dilusions or is this some battle command you can do? I finally figured out how to target specific pieces of ships, but it seems worthless in the heat of the moment when you can just kill the ship in less time than targeting all his pieces...
My other question is battleships.
I saw a topic on this somewhere but I lost it and am forced to ask again. We've all seen the section under Personal Information that lists the number of each type of ship destroyed, and under the list is a battleship section. Which does this refer to? Certainly not the battleships you can dock with around the universe, or does it?
My final question is about the giant trade ships.
Bored one day I decided to lead a life of crime and knock out power to some trade routes. Soon I had trade convoys in my territory and led the assault on them. BOOM down goes a giant trade ship, expecting a giant payload I closed in on his wreckage and when I looted him I barely picked up anything! What the heck?! Another time I scanned some cargo and noticed he had tons of crap on there! Why doesn't he drop more! I was very disappointed. Unless I did something wrong? Is there another way you're supposed to disrupt the trade ships to take over their cargo?
I read somewhere that there is a command you can use to just follow a ship. It sounded like the command would attempt it's best to match direction and speed with the ship you're trying to follow, is there such a command? Pretty much my battles go like this: Press R to get closest target, hit spacebar to enter mouse flight, and do my best to aim at the + in front of my targeted ship. Am I doing anything wrong? How do other people fight? Sometimes it seems like my guns aim themselves, which is cool, is this me having dilusions or is this some battle command you can do? I finally figured out how to target specific pieces of ships, but it seems worthless in the heat of the moment when you can just kill the ship in less time than targeting all his pieces...
My other question is battleships.
I saw a topic on this somewhere but I lost it and am forced to ask again. We've all seen the section under Personal Information that lists the number of each type of ship destroyed, and under the list is a battleship section. Which does this refer to? Certainly not the battleships you can dock with around the universe, or does it?
My final question is about the giant trade ships.
Bored one day I decided to lead a life of crime and knock out power to some trade routes. Soon I had trade convoys in my territory and led the assault on them. BOOM down goes a giant trade ship, expecting a giant payload I closed in on his wreckage and when I looted him I barely picked up anything! What the heck?! Another time I scanned some cargo and noticed he had tons of crap on there! Why doesn't he drop more! I was very disappointed. Unless I did something wrong? Is there another way you're supposed to disrupt the trade ships to take over their cargo?
