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Offline Gomoto

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Astrotrain question
« on: December 13, 2009, 08:16:20 am »
Question about astrotrains:

I am playing the 2.001U prerelease version with expansion right now. The astrotrains remain at the stations for a long time in my recent games. Perhaps they are stuck? It is common to have stations with 3 trains hanging out. After I destroy the station they will stay for another while until they finally start to move (or at least I hope so at a few planets remaining blocked for now.)

I searched the forum and the manual about the intended astrotrain behaviour, but could not find the information i was looking for.

Should the trains be always on the move or is it intended that they hang out on the stations?

They are a pain to deal in my current games, two regenerating and a speed boosting train blocking all ways out of my initial positions. Perhaps I will decide to finally tackle the raid engine to elude this evil things. Call me an astrotrain masochist, I love this pain! :)

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Gomoto

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Offline x4000

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Re: Astrotrain question
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2009, 09:19:12 am »
They should always be on the move -- there is some sort of comiion that is sometimes making them stuck, but I am not sure what that is yet. That is something I have not yet been able to find, but which I am going to be hopefully rooting out in the next week. Sorry for the inconvenence!
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Offline Gomoto

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Re: Astrotrain question
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2009, 11:15:35 am »
No problem, I can deal with the trains beeing stationary for a while, it is a nice diversion. But it is nice also, that they won´t be stationary in the future anymore  ;)

Great Game, keep up the good work!
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Offline Spikey00

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Re: Astrotrain question
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2009, 01:41:11 pm »
It's absolutely dreadful with a Regenerative Train idling on your planet when you have a wave of enemy ships on it (though good for the score).  =\
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Offline keith.lamothe

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Re: Astrotrain question
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2009, 11:43:25 am »
Yea, when I read the notes and saw "nearly indestructible" and "regenerates ships out of own hp" I realized we could be in for some serious pain ;)
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Re: Astrotrain question
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2009, 08:40:05 pm »
Quote from: Spikey00 on December 13, 2009, 01:41:11 pm
It's absolutely dreadful with a Regenerative Train idling on your planet when you have a wave of enemy ships on it (though good for the score).  =\

That would actually be pretty cool if there were some sort of level-up system for ships or turrets. But as it is, I agree, it's dreadful.
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