Rings of Sats around WP's |
Why do I sometimes have well distributed rings of sats around a warp point, and then other times they're all bunched up or even worse, they're off (out of range) by them selves away from the warp point?
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No, they're sats. I'm thinking it has something to do with what's on the location when they first get used. One of the warp points I had a large group of ships first, and then they left and just had sats. now a large portion of the sats are off the warp point and they're staying there. One idea was to take them into a sat deployer ship and then redeploy them. but this is early in the game and I can only pick up about 8 sats at a time and so it will take several turns...
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Galactic drift. That's the reason they keep moving. You have to compensate.
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Can't you manually move them as you can around planets once deployed?
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Inigma - What?
Sadeeq - I'm pretty sure you can't move sats. but I've been wrong before.
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rilo - there is no such thing as galactic drift in SEV. 
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The sats are obviously moving themselves and in a pattern similar to other things stationed at a WP. Try re-loading the sats, move a hex then back, and re-laying the sats. Ships (and fighters) work the same way, move a hex out then back. 
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I'm pretty sure you can. Just go to the detail view of the sector, zoom in deeply enough to be able to select a satellite and place it wherever you want.
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I didn't know you could do that without a layer.
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just takes time to move them one by one.
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oops to many posts
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Can never have too many.
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You can move the sats as long as there are no hostiles in that sector. from the system view, select the sector you want. Select Sector view from bottom center panel (eye on a grid), and you can move any ships or sats in that sector. It also allows you to move your repair ship to the edge of the sector to protect it.
I have also noticed that the computer is very stupid about placing sats, either protecting a warp point or a planet.
I have seen rings of sats around the WP, or a stack, I have seen a ring around the repair ship, that is positioned far off to one side.
It is too bad that you can't have a strategy for your sats, like defend warp point.
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Am I the only one who didn't know you could do that!!!!! You can set your sats out exactly where you want from the system view!!!! cool Now I can have a ring around the warp points rather than a ring around some of my ships away from the warp point.
Thanks Man!
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There is one disadvantage to setting out the satellites manually: you have to select each one and move it individually. Its inconvenient if you have a lot of satellites.
BTW, you can do this with fighters and drones (and ships, bases, etc.) also.
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Rilo, rest assured you are not the only one who didn't know about this. Thanks for the info! This will make some things a lot easier.
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Thats alright. I never thought of it either.
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Does the bunching up occur after they attack something? Sounds like what fighters do.