Topic: DOE Is Up and Running!

[Herr Burt]

Well, what are you still waiting for?  Go to http://www.fourpower.com/DOE_Frontpage.html and find your downloads, then start playing!


Oh, and oh yeah.  A special message for Chuut:



Hee hee!

-Herr Burt the happy  

[Herr Burt]

WHOOPS!!!

Slight hiccup there.  The only missions available were the base assault ones.  (A setting leftover from testing.)  Sorry!  Server reset and lets try again.

Hey, imagine how horked off you'd be if I'd waited longer to find that?  <ducks!>

-Herr Burt the hatemongerer

[Kroma_BaSyl]

What, no more downloads.....J'inns server had lots of cool downloads.

[J'inn]

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What, no more downloads.....J'inns server had lots of cool downloads.  

Shaddap!

[SOSGuderian]

I logged into DoE this morning.  Ran one mission in a SUB.  Nice boat, except for the fact that when I launched my 24 fighters against a F-CVA, F-CA+, F-CL and 2xF-DD+, they were invisible and did absolutely nothing.  Not true of the Fed fighters, of course.

I actually managed to win this mission (captured three of the five ships), my little battlehawk carrier wingman actually helped a little bit), but my ship was shot to hades and the 397 point I earned barely paid for the spares I used,  So, my net loss on this victory was about 300 prestige.  Fun.  Call me when my fighters won't be invisible and will actually shoot at the enemy.  

Incidentally, the AI Rom carrier's fighters did appear.  I'm not sure if I did anything wrong, of course.  I suppose that's possible.



ADDED LATER; Nevermind.  It was my fault.  I apparently loaded these drogue thingies.  Not fighters.  Why would they be invisible and do nothing, though?  I initially only launched one.

[Corbomite]

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I logged into DoE this morning.  Ran one mission in a SUB.  Nice boat, except for the fact that when I launched my 24 fighters against a F-CVA, F-CA+, F-CL and 2xF-DD+, they were invisible and did absolutely nothing.  Not true of the Fed fighters, of course.

I actually managed to win this mission (captured three of the five ships), my little battlehawk carrier wingman actually helped a little bit), but my ship was shot to hades and the 397 point I earned barely paid for the spares I used,  So, my net loss on this victory was about 300 prestige.  Fun.  Call me when my fighters won't be invisible and will actually shoot at the enemy.  

Incidentally, the AI Rom carrier's fighters did appear.  I'm not sure if I did anything wrong, of course.  I suppose that's possible.



ADDED LATER; Nevermind.  It was my fault.  I apparently loaded these drogue thingies.  Not fighters.  Why would they be invisible and do nothing, though?  I initially only launched one.  

No offense, but you might want to read the literature provided. Carriers cannot use Drouges. I'm not even playing and I know this.

[Green]

I had the same questions/confusion Guderian.  And though HB did note that a carrier can't take a drogue, he didn't note (or the more likely situation - I missed) which were drogues and which were fighters.

I went through the ftrlist and shiplist, figured it would be easy to tell what was what, unfortunately some seem to appear in both (i.e. the SF)

But from what I can determine ...

GI, GII, GIII are plasma F fighters
F, SF, FSF are phaser fighters

HVY, AWS, PLD are the drogues.

The HVY has 3 Fs (per HB's previous post).  The PLD I assume is a plasma D drogue.  Haven't figured out what the AWS is yet.  If you know, please note it.

Edit:  Some day, hopefully before this server is over, I'll learn how to spell drougu .. druoghu ... droge ... the little towed thingies that HB created for us to use.

[SOSGuderian]

None taken, my good Corbomite.  

There is no doubt I might have learned this if I had had the time to read all this stuff.  I do not.  So I made a simple mistake and I am now learning what occured.  Works for me.  Thanks for your help.  Sorry to have known less than someone who "is not even playing."


No amount of reading is going to change the negative cash flow nature of the mission.  Is it?

[SOSGuderian]

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I had the same questions/confusion Guderian.  And though HB did note that a carrier can't take a drogue, he didn't note (or the more likely situation - I missed) which were drogues and which were fighters.

I went through the ftrlist and shiplist, figured it would be easy to tell what was what, unfortunately some seem to appear in both (i.e. the SF)

But from what I can determine ...

GI, GII, GIII are plasma F fighters
F, SF, FSF are phaser fighters

HVY, AWS, PLD are the drogues.

The HVY has 3 Fs (per HB's previous post).  The PLD I assume is a plasma D drogue.  Haven't figured out what the AWS is yet.  If you know, please note it.

Edit:  Some day, hopefully before this server is over, I'll learn how to spell drougu .. druoghu ... droge ... the little towed thingies that HB created for us to use.

Thank you very much, Green,  I didn't realize which of the "fighters" were drogues either until I consulted the shiplist and fighterlist themselves.  I am now properly educated.