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What causes this: all ships cant move, cant shoot

By Annekynn on July 26, 2008 5:40:27 PM from

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Annekynn

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Whenever im fighting non TEC enemies, my entire fleet gets disabled. All ships show in red:

Abilities Disabled
Phase Jump Disabled
Sub-light main engines disabled
Sub-light manouvering engines disabled
Passive regeneration disabled
Weapons disabled

My fleet just sits there like a duck. I am guaranteed to lose unless I bring superior numbers and force the enemy to flee and then pick off their ships.

Its a capital ship ability, they use specail abilities that can disable some or all of your ships.

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Ok so how do I kill their capital ships if my ships cant move or shoot? And when they can shoot, the capital ships shields and hull get repaired and restored faster than I can damage them.

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Someone's going to have to refresh my memory on what TEC capital ship can do this to a whole fleet as I've played them a long time off and on now and I don't recall any such ability.

Edit: Well, there's Ceasefire, but neither side can shoot then. And you can move just fine, so color me confused. And there's the Hoshiko's disabling ability, but you'd have to have a ton of them to halt an entire fleet.

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Were you fighting the Vasari? That sounds like a Stilakus Subverter, but it would only affect a few of your frigates at a time. A Kostura Cannon would do it to everything, but I've never seen a computer build a superweapon.

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Yes I am fighting the Vasari. It takes out my entire fleet. All ships disabled except for the capital ships at the very back. And it lasts such a long time that my 50 heavy cruiers get obliterated without getting more than a handful of kills. I have tried taking out all their Subverters but it still happens.

And that cannon description says it targets structures only. It can be used against ships?

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Its the vasari superweapon, It says something like damages all objects in orbit, basically its a planatary EMP bomb.

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Ah, somehow I missed that 'non' word in the original post. My bad.

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it is Stilakus Subverter, supercannon only damanges stuffs IRCC.

Kill these nasty ships or your fleet will be perma-stunned like that.

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That definitely sounds like multiple subverters. A Kostura cannon explosion only disables ships for like 10 seconds (buildings for a minute or two), but subverters can pretty much lock you down until they run out of antimatter.

They can't disable strike craft as far as I know, so you could try to assassinate the subverters with fighters or bombers before they start locking you down.

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BTW Subverters got massive nerf on this ability, so it would be harder to see than now.

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BTW Subverters got massive nerf on this ability, so it would be harder to see than now.

Ok, good

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