The Old Stupid Questions Topic™

fwiffo · Post by **fwiffo** » Fri May 27, 2011 11:08 pm

when i command, i will torture pilots that fly past enemy probes. i dont care if you only have a nan, you can ram the probe with your ship and kill it. allegiance as a game of strategy is very dependent on the intel you can gather either by actively scouting your enemy or with your probes. denying the enemy this same information is just as valuable if not more. so yes, probe and deprobe, you can do both!

having a probe net in one sector is great, but its really a mid to late-game luxury these days, perhaps more so under htt threat. just having one or two well placed probes per sector will do early on, although you should expect that your teammates are also helping to probe other sectors as well (coordinate with them so you dont both end up in the same sector).

there are few situations where probing/deprobing in your opening scout isnt the priority, here's a few (in order of importance):

0. you are the opening scout responsible for finding alephs for the cons to move forward to. dont stall the process by delaying the discovery of alephs by getting sidetracked with probing/deprobing. do what you can if they are in your path, otherwise find that aleph so you can get those cons planted and out of danger!
1. you're the nan for the opening con(s). you can still probe/deprobe but if you find that the con is getting ahead of you, you best abort and catch up.
2. you have just eyed the enemy's con and/or their d. go to stealth mode asap (lower shield/missiles). and continue shadowing them and eyeing them to relay the information back to your team whilst staying hidden. this allows your team to rally a strike force to repel their attempts to claim sectors.
3. you find enemy miner. dont alert the enemy of your presence! if you are still uneyed dont get eyed by going off to shoot a probe, instead hit voice chats to alert your team, similar to #2.

ha.. while writing this i remembered that i once wrote some guide to probing but couldnt find it... then by random luck, i found it.
sorry its not formatted well, its some copy paste from somewhere i forget, i'll get to it eventually but it should answer most of the basics.

http://freeallegiance.org/FAW/index.php/Fw...s_probing_guide

Axel Kolle · Post by **Axel Kolle** » Mon May 30, 2011 3:21 pm

ctrl-g [go to] name of object/player/base/sector
ctrl-d [defend] name of object/player/base/sector
ctrl-r [repair] name of object/player/base/sector
ctrl-a [attack] name of object/player/base/sector
ctrl-b [build] name of object/player/base/sector
ctrl-p [pick up] name of object/player/base/sector
ctrl-m [mine] name of object/player/base/sector

The ctl g and so on commands. Are those the autopilot commands? And can I use those? Enter and command or do they command others?

What are the autopilot commands if not these?

l1ngus · Post by **l1ngus** » Mon May 30, 2011 7:43 pm

Those commands are useful to order around miners and constructors, when out of base.

To engage your own autopilot there is different ways: target the destination you want to go to and hit "p". The most usual thing is "b" to target the next friendly base then "p" to autopilot and dock there. This is especially usefu when in a pod.

Use f3 and rightclick on a target to autopiot to it. If you want to autopilot to another sector unlock your mouse and leftclick on the sector you want to go to on the minimap.

Axel Kolle · Post by **Axel Kolle** » Tue May 31, 2011 10:52 am

***Smacks head***
Knew most of that.

What is a good range for Nanning a bbr?

Do I have to pull lead with a Nan gun?

With my lag Nanning may not be possible at all. I tried one time and the result was a slideshow of a fullscale battle. Have since adjusted my Bandwidth settings, will need to experiment. The lag is there to stay though, I am afraid.

Axel Kolle · Post by **Axel Kolle** » Tue May 31, 2011 10:57 am

Forgot: How do I set up a one man game for testing, the minimum allowed seems to be two, even in a custom game.
Can one assign a bot to fight the other side?

notjarvis · Post by **notjarvis** » Tue May 31, 2011 11:35 am

Start up a server.
Join a team.
Untick the tick icon next to the other teams name..
Should do it.

Bots aren't available to command teams - although there's discussion in the Coding zone about just that at the minute.

Axel Kolle · Post by **Axel Kolle** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:59 am

DM: "Make a Spot Roll"
Me: "Sorim fails-again. So what don't I see-again?"

Btw Pathfinder Rules is a good way to go if u don't like AD&D 4.0 very much. Or cannot get it because this is Africa.
My own observation is that Tabletop games, enjoyable as they are, suffer from considerable "social lag" as well. But at least everybody is equal there around the table.

fwiffo · Post by **fwiffo** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:45 pm

Arglebargle, glop-glyf!?!

Axel Kolle · Post by **Axel Kolle** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:26 am

"Start up a server.
Join a team.
Untick the tick icon next to the other teams name..
Should do it."

DM: "Make a Spot Roll"
Me: "Sorim fails-again. So what don't I see-again?"

Meant I did not spot the check mark next to teams and therefore could not start up a test server. Hence the failed spot roll

I checked and google does not have a translate BS to Spathi button at last count. Or vice versa.

"Arglebargle, glop-glyf!?!"
And a good example of social lag, fwiffo. Plus perhaps a dropped packet or two

But thx for the help everyone, I really appreciate.

l1ngus · Post by **l1ngus** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:04 pm

This is how it works:

For some stupid reason this option is not available on the newbieservers. So make sure to start your own one like shown above.