Post by: mover005 on January 17, 2010, 02:27:38 AM
One thing though I didn't manage to do till now is the following... I managed to stick geo-survey buoys onto missiles, also managed to figure out how to shoot missiles at waypoints from PDCs... my question is the following: Is it possible to shoot buoys into orbit of other planets from missile bases? We're kinda doing this already irl and this game seems so deep that I can't imagine it isn't possible somehow here. I think I'm missing something easy.
Post by: Father Tim on January 17, 2010, 02:36:39 PM
. . . Unless the "Task Groups containing PDCs may not be assigned orders" restriction prevents it. I don't see why you can't fire bouys from the individual units (F6) screen.
Post by: mover005 on January 17, 2010, 10:54:12 PM
Post by: Steve Walmsley on January 18, 2010, 03:29:12 PM
Quote from: "mover005"
On the individual orders screen I only seem to be able to target the set waypoint. When I set the waypoint on the planet, the rocket shoots fine and launches the buoy when it arrives, but the buoy just ends up uselessly in space, and not in the orbit around the target planet.Instead of creating a waypoint using the Add button, select the planet so it is centered in the window and then press the Last button. This will create a waypoint on the last thing you selected. If this is a planet, the waypoint will move with the planet so the missile arrives in the right place.
Steve
Post by: Beersatron on January 18, 2010, 03:38:24 PM
Quote from: "Steve Walmsley"
Quote from: "mover005"On the individual orders screen I only seem to be able to target the set waypoint. When I set the waypoint on the planet, the rocket shoots fine and launches the buoy when it arrives, but the buoy just ends up uselessly in space, and not in the orbit around the target planet.Instead of creating a waypoint using the Add button, select the planet so it is centered in the window and then press the Last button. This will create a waypoint on the last thing you selected. If this is a planet, the waypoint will move with the planet so the missile arrives in the right place.
Steve
Oh!! I presume that this works if your survey ships detect an alien thermal/em signature on a planet/moon and you waypoint it like above? So, when your survey ships moves away (or gets blow up!) you can still come back in a few years time and know what moon it was because the WP moved with it?
Post by: Steve Walmsley on January 18, 2010, 04:32:14 PM
Quote from: "Beersatron"
Yes, that will work tooQuote from: "Steve Walmsley"Quote from: "mover005"On the individual orders screen I only seem to be able to target the set waypoint. When I set the waypoint on the planet, the rocket shoots fine and launches the buoy when it arrives, but the buoy just ends up uselessly in space, and not in the orbit around the target planet.Instead of creating a waypoint using the Add button, select the planet so it is centered in the window and then press the Last button. This will create a waypoint on the last thing you selected. If this is a planet, the waypoint will move with the planet so the missile arrives in the right place.
Steve
Oh!! I presume that this works if your survey ships detect an alien thermal/em signature on a planet/moon and you waypoint it like above? So, when your survey ships moves away (or gets blow up!) you can still come back in a few years time and know what moon it was because the WP moved with it?
Steve
Post by: mover005 on January 18, 2010, 06:19:02 PM
Well this worked in a way that the Survey buoy followed the planet around, but didn't do any surveying. The design window tells me that the buoy has a runtime for exactly a year, collecting about 800 geo survey points, I guess that should be more than enough for luna. They also work when used from a ship. Guess it just doesn't work with missile bases right now.
Post by: mover005 on January 18, 2010, 06:37:33 PM