Posted by: bean
« on: March 10, 2011, 11:06:11 AM »I assume that my people are competent, yes. There have been several times when I've SMd something because I didn't know what was going on, but someone would have if it were real.
As a planetary bombardment specialist, THANK YOU!
Matt
That's helpful. It happened to me once, and it wasn't a pleasant thing to think about.
In v5.40, if a freighter is about to pick up the last mass driver from a population, Aurora will check to see if packets are incoming or the population is set as a mass driver destination. If so, it will warn the player and retain one mass driver on the planet.
Steve
What needs to happen is that a world receiving packets needs to designate a drive as a "catcher" and not allow it to be moved.
But a interesting form of dealing with restless/revolting citizens....
A dictator can dream..
I guess it make sense that you're able to send large chunk of minerals, but that shooting delicate components at more than 1 thousand time the speed of sounds through several layers of atmosphere isn't exactly a good idea.