Shipyard and research stations

posted on January 16th, 2009, 11:21 pm

When your ship yard or research station gets destroyed does the stuff you researched die with it?
or do you keep the special abilities.....?

posted on January 16th, 2009, 11:31 pm

al research is permanent and will not be lost once a station is destroyed

posted on January 16th, 2009, 11:37 pm

Ahh cool that does make sense cause if you build a ship and give a special torpedo or sometin it seems silly to lose it cause the station was blown up...

posted on January 18th, 2009, 9:33 pm

al research is permanent and will not be lost once a station is destroyed

I don't think that's entirely true. I was playing as romulans a few days ago, the ai rushed me and managed to get through my defenses with a few destroyers that blew up my research station and I've lost my both riehn upgrades.

posted on January 19th, 2009, 2:35 pm

Hmm, that's odd. Maybe the Rhienn requires the research station...
Looking at the odfs, this 'permanent research' is done by making the pods invincible (a pretty good, simple, logical idea, tbh), so I can't think of any other reason why this could happen. =/

posted on January 19th, 2009, 4:59 pm

It work's for special weapons and system upgrades, refits are neither.

[Optec]

posted on January 20th, 2009, 1:09 pm

Last edited by Optec on January 20th, 2009, 1:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

it should also work for the refits, i will check it

//edit: works fine for me, Rhienn Refit Upgrades stay after the researchstation has been destroyed

[Anonymous]

posted on January 20th, 2009, 10:22 pm

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Curious.

It is fine if the ships that existed before the station was destroyed did not lose their upgrade.
But what about ships that were bult after the station was destroyed?
why would they have access to the research when the lab that researched and for all purposes served as the dissemination point of the ability or upgrade, is no more?

Kinda makes the destruction of such labs or even targeting them, as we used to do in A1 from a strategic point of view, pointless.

posted on January 20th, 2009, 10:29 pm

we have some ideas to extend the functionality of research stations in future patches

we always hated destroyable research ("oh my dear, now i forgot how to fire that damn special weapon!") and thats why it went to hell

posted on January 20th, 2009, 10:30 pm

we have some ideas to extend the functionality of research stations in future patches

we always hated destroyable research ("oh my dear, now i forgot how to fire that damn special weapon!") and thats why it went to hell

haha. cool. thanks Optec. look forward to it.