Topic: What's up with the Andros??

[Lepton]

Ran into an Andro tonight on SG.  Has the design of the server changed or are they in there just for yucks?

Whatever the case may be, can we be expecting satellite ships, tac warp, and such?

[Dizzy]

Yup, Sat ships, Tac warp and 6 or so different designs. Make sure you get a wing when you run the Alien Encounter mission. Especially in the early era... Elective friendly space mission, it doesnt come up often, but it does pay well, and so far all have said its fun.

[KBFLordKrueg]

The Andro Mods look nice, a little dark, but nice.
The one thing I really dislike about the Alien Encounter mission is that if you draft a live enemy player, it gives THEM the Andro ships...
Did that on the test server, anyway.
Think you're bouncing a lone ship only to find it's TWO Ando ships, controlled by a live player, each launching Sat ships...

[Dizzy]

Thats strange. Its supposed to be a friendly space mission thats elective. Dont take it in friendly space when there's an oppoenent in the hex. The frequency of this mission appearing is 1 in 30 compared to other patrols. That may have changed now that we dropped the mission draw per move to 2 from 3. Mb increased the frequency to 1 in 20.

That's cool tho... a live human opponent in control of an andro ship! Say it isnt so!

[Soreyes]

Ahh Dizzy there is a possable small problem with the Andros. Last night I took a Planet Assalt, and guess what was there to defend the planet 1. A-INT, 1. A-COO with Sat Ships. I say that my DF and the 2 F-FFLs lasted a whole 1 min and 30 seconds

[Dizzy]

Well, haha. You got the short end of the stick, dude, hehe. Sucks to be u.

Well, let's see how much of a menace they are. If they start coming up more, its easy to take em out, just change the fya. Kinda weird too, I had a patrol wth Pirates in a TraceyG mission. It didnt pull empire races as enemies. Kinda cool tho. No andros. Btw... I destroyed a Conquerer, that COQ, in one pass when my CC+ shot an overloaded alpha into it a 1k on a downed shield. Blew up its sat ship too. Just like any Andro, a massive alpha is all it takes to really cripple them. A few internals here and there wont do much, as their weapons, in the early era, will likely do more in the shorter and mid ranges than you can to them...

[Lepton]

I guess what had confused me is that I was drafted, and was facing an Andro that was a live player, whose name happened to be AlienInvader.  This left me with the impression that in fact someone was flying around on the server as an Andro.  Not to mention that the guy flying Andro seemed to have some inside information that I will not disclose here.  I suppose he or she could have been pulling my leg.  This is basically why I asked, as I was surprised to see an Andro, and it was a live player, and he had some interesting things to say.

[Dizzy]

Very interesting... Well, good you are keeping it to yourself. hehe. Was it a fun match? Did s/he use tac warp?

Oops, I see where the TH are a playable race. Not good. Will fix that.

No one create an account with the TH's.