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The only way to fix this is to open your ship designer, make a new version of your ship without boarding pods, then Upgrade your ship to remove all the boarding pods, then go back into the ship designer, make another update to the design with the boarding pods back in, and then finally Upgrade your ship a second to get full functionality back.Īnd this is why you want to leave all decisions on whether to launch boarding or not left up to you and not the AI. You'll see the graphic of them freezing in space and they will not regenerate anymore. warps away or is destroyed) while your boarding pods are in flight/en route to the target they will be lost forever. time.įear the BOARDING BUG: If a target is rendered unboardable (i.e. I know that sounds weird but the thing is the AI is just so incredibly stupid when it comes to doing its own boarding that it will turn into a massive headache due to the boarding bug in the game, as they'll end up doing partial launches. One last thing: In the AI behavior settings you'll want to turn the AI automatic boarding OFF entirely. Don't be afraid to backtrack to lower tier weapons if need be. A boarding ship too much firepower will destroy its target instead of boarding it. Finally, once you get high tech watch out for overkill. And don't use rail guns yourself - energy weapons and ion guns all the way is fine. Once you get automated repair tech you'll find that armor is actually more important than shields as it can actually stop enemy rail guns. If you need to skimp on anything then keep the fuel tanks small (4 is enough) because you won't want to be operating far from a shipyard anyway. ![]() Originally posted by Dormeur:Boarding ships might be good with good speed, tractor beams and lasers (as they are short range). They have technology far superior to your own (shields, warp drives, etc) and by retiring those ships for disassembly you can steal that tech for yourself and get a massive leap over the competition in the early tech areas. The main reason you want to do this is not just to protect yourself but to grab those pirate ships early on. This will ensure that pirates that attack your space port will always get sucked into range of the boarding pods and most likely captured. Add half again as many tractor beams and set your tactics to "point blank" for everything. zero starting tech) then putting boarding pods on you're first space port is a must. Unused boarding pods add to the defense strength of whatever they're built into, which makes them more resistant to enemy boarding attacks.Īlso if you're playing a standard game (i.e. If you're playing as an Empire faction then it's the best defense against pirates. If you're playing as a Pirate faction then it's the only viable strategy. Originally posted by Dormeur:Is boarding a viable strategy? Have anyone tried it with success? Make sure you have your capture options set up the way you want them in the Empire Options, and it *may* help to change the combat ratio to 4-1 or 5-1. For sure it helps to move them away while a long boarding is going on, especially a base - why mill around it and keep taking damage? I do leave fleets on automated defense, and they do capture stuff once in a while, but the fleets work best when micromanaged. For individual ships I don't think the tradeoff is worth it - I'd rather have more weapons. Obviously gravitron beams/mass drivers are not a good fit - you want as much firepower to lower shields as possible, not bypass them.Īutomate? Yeah, good luck, capture ships work best en masse, especially vs pirates who generally have boarding pods (=boarding defense) of their own. A med bay will help the boarding pods recover faster, but that's not usually worth the space tradeoff except for pirates who want ships that can raid again asap. One or 2 ion weapons comes in handy, they can keep the enemy ship from shooting up your ships quiite as much while the boarding combat is still going on. Tractor beams don't hurt, I dunno if they're better than more dakka though. Speed, beams, 2-3-4 boarding pods are the most important. Yep, I love boarding especially early in game.
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