amusing late game tactic

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or is it a strategy? The galaxy was scoured clean of anomalies and its just me and a AI opponnent. Rather than eyeballing a HUGE galaxy for new anomalies, I used their survey vessel to "bird-dog" the appearance of a new anomaly. I could outpace them, so I would follow the ship and when I was within range I would grab it. You could also just extend their direction of travel to find it, but then you have to chase back to the ship and you spend time re-adjusting your path to intercept them again. I found it easier to keep in proximity by "following them ahead of them", keeping my ship 4 or 5 units along tyheir direction of travel.

Perhaps Brad could code the Smart AI to object to this and reduce the relations for each occurance over 2.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
it's an interesting strategy. You can make several survey ships and make them follow alien survey ships. This way you can prevent the aliens from getting anomalies. heh
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I had my original Survey and 2 Starhawks all very Uber. I had 2 parked near starbases for attack buffs on top of their already outragous values.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Hmmm.

Cari, any possibilty that it can be coded so both we and the AI can not see a newly spawned anomaly unless it is in the sensor range of a ship or planet we/they own?

Maybe as an option?
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I'd love to have a map option to display anomalies. It's a huge pain in the royal thrown to try to look around the map and find anomalies.

Yuck!

It's great that they added displays on the map for resources, so now they just need to add the same for anomalies.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
We added "Auto-Survey" a while back for anyone that dosen't want to bother with searching the anomalies out. As long as an anomaly apears in explored space your vessel will set autopilot to intercept it. :)
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
The "Auto-Survey" is very handy. How about adding "Auto-Explore" for scouts and other ships? And Auto-Waypoints for newly built ships?
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I second (or whatever) the motion to have an auto-explore.
I use the Auto-survey all the time, now I would like to do the same with my scouts! :)
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
I've used auto survey a bit, but after seeing my survey ship pass anomalies several times, I gave it up.

/Flemming
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
'I've used auto survey a bit, but after seeing my survey ship pass anomalies several times, I gave it up.'

It doesn't necessarily aim for the closest anomaly, so it can get annoying at times.