Posted by: jseah
« on: August 13, 2011, 11:28:44 AM »I have tried the tractor beam trick myself. A few times in fact.
I haven't used it to get rid of old civ. ships yet however.
First time was to test how tractor beams worked. I didn't have another ship to test it on so I tractored a civilian. Found that the civilian ship was mine now. Deleted that.
Second time was to test what happens when I scrap civilian ships. Turns out, you get the minerals as per normal. =) I have yet to try a "no mining" game, but that sounds like it would be suicidal. Perhaps I will play a Sol-only game to see how feasible it is once 5.5 stabilizes.
I haven't used it to get rid of old civ. ships yet however.
First time was to test how tractor beams worked. I didn't have another ship to test it on so I tractored a civilian. Found that the civilian ship was mine now. Deleted that.
Second time was to test what happens when I scrap civilian ships. Turns out, you get the minerals as per normal. =) I have yet to try a "no mining" game, but that sounds like it would be suicidal. Perhaps I will play a Sol-only game to see how feasible it is once 5.5 stabilizes.