Freighter Bug

posted on March 8th, 2010, 6:03 am

Freighters, or Romulan ones at least, can fire on enemy vessels with their mining beams.

posted on March 8th, 2010, 6:23 am

I see what you mean now.  If you take a miner (I did a romulan one) and set it to high special weapons autonomy, it will use its mining beam on another vessel or station.  Nothing happens as a result, the beam just "attacks" a ship or station, but no damage or mining happens.

posted on March 8th, 2010, 11:59 am

will be fixed

[Anonymous]

posted on March 8th, 2010, 4:46 pm

Last edited by Anonymous on March 8th, 2010, 4:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

i believe any freighter can do that

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posted on March 8th, 2010, 5:29 pm

No wonder Mandrils always show up as my 'least effective combat ship' in the ADM log.

posted on March 8th, 2010, 5:33 pm

Awesome Screenie, Mort

posted on March 8th, 2010, 5:40 pm

Good move, Mort!  Mining Voyager for spare parts!

posted on March 8th, 2010, 5:56 pm

i think we should leave it as it is, star trek freighter ops sounds fun. freighter captains thinking they have weapons

on a serious note maybe the freighters could be adapated to steal enemy resources, if you can get a freighter to an enemy refinery, you could load up refined resources (ie load up several times the normal capacity - as normally you are carrying raw ores). imagine your enemy's horror when they had just added that last module to their first sphere and suddenly they lack the resources.  :borg:

posted on March 8th, 2010, 6:37 pm

that would be awesome!

I also like the mining beams that can actually mine resources off ships, and eventually kill them

posted on March 8th, 2010, 6:48 pm

mining from ships i dont think is sensible. how do you strip the armour off a ship? if it takes phasers lots of work to get through then a mining beam would need ages. or everyone would just use mining ships as combat ships.

posted on March 8th, 2010, 6:53 pm

if this is going to be fixed does that mean that the freighters will no longer always be my least effective combat ship??

posted on March 8th, 2010, 9:14 pm

Wait, wait, wait...you mean I send my freighters on suicide-runs to my enemy's base at the end of every game I lose, and I never even knew that they could actually attack when they got there?! Damn.....

posted on March 8th, 2010, 9:16 pm

The particle collector beam should be invertible so that you can push enemy ships away as a defense mechanism. Or perhaps blast dilithium at them... that would be awesome.

posted on March 8th, 2010, 9:18 pm

if this is going to be fixed does that mean that the freighters will no longer always be my least effective combat ship??

I think this is a seperate issue - probably that will be fixed when the Admiral's Log is reworked a good way's down the road. 

posted on March 8th, 2010, 10:30 pm

First of all, the error is the combat=1 code. I believe the devs must have copied and paste and forgot to make it a 0.  Who knows the reason? Right?