Posted by: Paul M
« on: March 03, 2014, 03:58:33 AM »I mean there are times when it is cheating but there are many times when it is not, a couple of examples:
1. up to 6.4 there is no way to refit your PDCs. The refit command works in terms of expending minerals, construction resources and time but doesn't do anything. So at least one solution is to use SM mode to delete the old and add the new when the message "refit completed" shows up.
2. I made a mistake and needed to use SM mode to move a ship containing a team from Earth to Alpha C and then moved the ship back. I had no other way to put the team where I wanted them.
Correcting mistakes that you made is the biggest use I have for the SM mode. Especially when the mistake is from lack of familiarity then I see no problem. It isn't like a real military logistics service would forget to load missiles on a ship before a combat mission or that the crew of the ship wouldn't notice this detail and so on...but you the player can easily not see that sort of thing. For most of these kinds of considerations I consider how likely it is to happen in real life. If the answer is negligably likely then I have no problem using SM mode to correct the issue.
1. up to 6.4 there is no way to refit your PDCs. The refit command works in terms of expending minerals, construction resources and time but doesn't do anything. So at least one solution is to use SM mode to delete the old and add the new when the message "refit completed" shows up.
2. I made a mistake and needed to use SM mode to move a ship containing a team from Earth to Alpha C and then moved the ship back. I had no other way to put the team where I wanted them.
Correcting mistakes that you made is the biggest use I have for the SM mode. Especially when the mistake is from lack of familiarity then I see no problem. It isn't like a real military logistics service would forget to load missiles on a ship before a combat mission or that the crew of the ship wouldn't notice this detail and so on...but you the player can easily not see that sort of thing. For most of these kinds of considerations I consider how likely it is to happen in real life. If the answer is negligably likely then I have no problem using SM mode to correct the issue.