D.I.E. Posted March 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Have you contacted Pete and heard anything back???? Unfortunately, to date, I have been unable to contact Pete, either by e-mail or by phone, for clarification. Personally, I think it is very important to the game, in light of the criticality of proliferating screen to the database, to know whether what happened was due to player error, our ignorance of how flag bridges work, or a problem with space combat program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilGartner Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Pete is probably busy. I had a problem with one of my colonies that had mountains of lumber but none of my newly built lumber mills were producing any lumber. I contacted Pete about the problem but I heard nothing back but on this turn, that colony is finally producing lumber for my resource hungry empire. If this was glitch, then he should say something. Hopefully a higher rate flag bridge might do better in a fight, however, targetting a land brick equipped only with computer system is a wtf moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Deependra Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Pete is probably busy. I had a problem with one of my colonies that had mountains of lumber but none of my newly built lumber mills were producing any lumber. I contacted Pete about the problem but I heard nothing back but on this turn, that colony is finally producing lumber for my resource hungry empire. If this was glitch, then he should say something. Hopefully a higher rate flag bridge might do better in a fight, however, targetting a land brick equipped only with computer system is a wtf moment. Targetting computers makes sense to me. They are a vital components of the fleet. But if an enemy Flag Bridge makes my unarmed flagship indestructable (until every other ship is gone), I will make the most of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locklyn Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Hopefully a higher rate flag bridge might do better in a fight, however, targetting a land brick equipped only with computer system is a wtf moment. Its probably that the Flag Bridges are Macintosh products targeting the earlier and troublesome windows vista computers... Really, Pete, how about a comment before next turn? I've got people to kill and would like to know the rules before committing resources (Now when have I said that before... ) /Locklyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilGartner Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Pete is probably busy. I had a problem with one of my colonies that had mountains of lumber but none of my newly built lumber mills were producing any lumber. I contacted Pete about the problem but I heard nothing back but on this turn, that colony is finally producing lumber for my resource hungry empire. If this was glitch, then he should say something. Hopefully a higher rate flag bridge might do better in a fight, however, targetting a land brick equipped only with computer system is a wtf moment. Targetting computers makes sense to me. They are a vital components of the fleet. But if an enemy Flag Bridge makes my unarmed flagship indestructable (until every other ship is gone), I will make the most of it! Maybe but why destroy it? If you look at the first example of a flag bridge in use, it did targeted gnats armed with a CIDS but it only crippled them. There has to be a hiccup in the system. Hellenic Warp Points Fall!, Liberating the hellenic people! http://www.rollingthunderforums.com/index....=1629&st=97 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WKE235 Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Maybe if we all hold hands, think nice thoughts, and recite a chant, then Pete will magically appear to tell someone, anyone, if this battle was glitched or not. Hail, hail, fire and snow Call the Pete, we need to know Far away, for to see Friendly Pete, come to me Also, sacrifices of sugared objects and beverages containing alcohol may also serve to entice the Pete to appear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfouasnon Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Hehe , how quaint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takeda Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Hail, hail, fire and snow Call the Pete, we need to know Far away, for to see Friendly Pete, come to me Not my favorite episode of the series, but nice call! Takeda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locklyn Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Hail, hail, fire and snow Call the Pete, we need to know Far away, for to see Friendly Pete, come to me Not my favorite episode of the series, but nice call! Takeda This is what Pete said in an email to me when I asked him to clarify flagbridges before my first attack...don't know if this helps: "Flag Bridges uses a threat evaluation system to weed out nonthreatening entities from the primary targeting display. Your admirals expect solid results against the usual garbage screens they are likely to encounter. They also limit the need for the typical worthless friendly screens as well, by way of allowing friendly targeting onto enemy weapons platforms much earlier in the battle (ie 120,000 screens is probably 120 million totally wasted tons)." Cheers /Locklyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cestvel Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Well, then screens are not dead just the really useless junkers. Put at least one weapon on it and you are back in business Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coconutheads Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Geeze. I hope it's wrong but it appears that the holy grail turns out not to be a holy grail. I agree with your evaluation Marcus. Since Pete said "Flag Bridges uses a threat evaluation system to weed out nonthreatening entities from the primary targeting display", we need to understand the term NON-THREATENING. You can interpret nonthreatening to mean anything, but to me, the only nonthreatening ship is an unarmed ship. Think about it. One 'screen' armed with a Siege Tachyon Beam is relatively harmless, but if someone constructs a fleet of 10,000 or 20,000 of these little guys, suddenly it's putting out credible damage. What was once harmless is now a viable threat. Sadly, the results of the last battle seem to back that interpretation. Obviously Flag Bridges can be useful against already existing screens that were built without weapons... BUT I'd say that that from now on, every screen design will carry at least one weapon system. That being the case, the current crop of screens may die off, but a new crop of them will replace them. Perhaps <crosses fingers> the Mk2 or higher versions will expand the definition of nonthreatening to include a 'real' threat evaluation routine built into the RTG combat program... If they do not, then what point is there having a higher level Flag Bridge?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Miles Avatar Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Geeze. I hope it's wrong but it appears that the holy grail turns out not to be a holy grail. I agree with your evaluation Marcus. Since Pete said "Flag Bridges uses a threat evaluation system to weed out nonthreatening entities from the primary targeting display", we need to understand the term NON-THREATENING. You can interpret nonthreatening to mean anything, but to me, the only nonthreatening ship is an unarmed ship. Think about it. One 'screen' armed with a Siege Tachyon Beam is relatively harmless, but if someone constructs a fleet of 10,000 or 20,000 of these little guys, suddenly it's putting out credible damage. What was once harmless is now a viable threat. Sadly, the results of the last battle seem to back that interpretation. Obviously Flag Bridges can be useful against already existing screens that were built without weapons... BUT I'd say that that from now on, every screen design will carry at least one weapon system. That being the case, the current crop of screens may die off, but a new crop of them will replace them. Perhaps <crosses fingers> the Mk2 or higher versions will expand the definition of nonthreatening to include a 'real' threat evaluation routine built into the RTG combat program... If they do not, then what point is there having a higher level Flag Bridge?? Isnt having a massive Firecontrol rating as well as MASSIVE firepower just as good? You target as many enemy ships as possible and with high enough firepower wipe the screens out in the least amount of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cestvel Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Screen this way applied are just plain stupid and should never have worked. Even if you have 10.000s of 1.000 ton ships, the combined firepower will never do any harm to a NDN with 50.000.000+ tonnage. But you waste away huge chunks (even with incredible high Fire Control and Fire Power) on these (in my eyes still junk) screens. And the reason for the Flag Bridge were to help cleaing the screens from the database, as they started to put a strain on it. But as it currently looks like, screens are still valid What the most frustration part is, that Pete still has not said a peep about it. java script:emoticon( Just a "works as designed" or "oops, I messed up" would have been enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Deependra Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 From the way its sounding, I'd rather fight someone who has a Flag Bridge than someone who doesn't. At least if he has a Flag Bridge, he won't shoot any of my passing transports. Maybe I'll research the tech to give them to my enemies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cestvel Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Sorry, not quite The transports get spared till the warships are removed. Then the carnival shooting begins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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