Planet question |
Hi guys
I have an empire which is at war with 2 other.
Their ships are attacking 3 of my planets far from my center and naturally they should have destry them. Although this is not happening,
one of this 3 is a ring planet which only had some damage.
The other 2 they are typical rock planets ( i have terran condeferation) which on the battle screen above the planet there is a tringle with a sympol. And the enemy ships all the time finally retreat.
Personaly i am very happy because they remain to attack in this planets but i think is not something logic.
Finally i have another problem 2 of my planets they are saying that they dont have resourses to built any more. I send there a cargo with resources but things didint change?
What should i do?
Re: Planet question
The problem about ships not firing at planets is caused by the fact that the ships are aiming at the surface of the planet, while they actually start firing only if the center of the planet is at weapon range...
You can have ships firing at the planet in tactical combat making them moving closer to the planet (No luck if the weapon range is shorter than the planet radius)...
I think that also units on the planet (weapon platforms) are placed at the center of the planet, and not at the surface, but I have to actually test this.
Re: Planet question
Cargo is not the same thing as resources... cargo is what you put into things, while resources are what you build things with... I still don't see how you're putting resources into cargo... You can transfer supplies and ordnance out of a ship to a planet, but that won't affect construction...
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Re: Planet question
Well here's what happened in some of my games... the computer makes a treaty with another AI race which includes no planet bombardments, so when it attacks you it attacks any fleet. defences you have on the planet but can't destroy the planet itself due to the treaty with the other race (which for some reason is a global condition) and that is usually shown by a triangular sybmol above the planet during combat...
The AI is messed up though, it will still keep trying to attack that planet since it's a threat, enter combat then retreat since it can't actually destroy anything.
Not sure how weapon platforms affect it, I assume the treaty would allow destruction of platform defeneces, and if the damage is more then the platform it might "accidentally" carry over to facilities for that one wave of bombards, after that they AI couldn't attack the planet directly.
#1 cause of out of resources that I've seen is no actual empire resources
#2 is rioting
#3 cause is no population on the planet, either conditions or other effects have killed them all
Re: Planet question
There's a bug which prevents certain weapons from firing on planets unless they get really close up... what weapons are the attackers equipped with?
Planets that say they don't have resources to build means that either:
1. You ran out of one or more types of resources (minerals/organics/radioactives) - build miners/farms/refineries or scrap things if you're really desperate.
2. The planet is rioting - drop troops or put ships in orbit or build an urban pacification center in the system.
(There might be something else which could cause an "out of resources" message but those two are all I can think of right now... in any event, I don't know what you mean by "sending cargo with resources" since resources are empire-wide; the only things that could prevent a planet's resources from being usable is the lack of a spaceport in the system to send the resources to the global pool, or an enemy ship in orbit of the planet producing the resources...)
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