Can't create a warp point in 1.20 with BM1.01

The AI doesn't use WP openers anyways, so it was going to be a lonely game from the start.

What was the distance for the WP opener component? Was it sufficient to reach the next system? Did you have enough supplies?

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Its a SEV problem. If you can't see the target system, you can't open a WP to it. Since with default sight rules you can't see ANY system other than the one you start in..going to be a lonely game.

Make sure to check the "has seen all systems" box when playing a no warp game.

Phoenix-D wrote:

Its a SEV problem. If you can't see the target system, you can't open a WP to it. Since with default sight rules you can't see ANY system other than the one you start in..going to be a lonely game.

Make sure to check the "has seen all systems" box when playing a no warp game.

Sorry, but that information is plain incorrect if you are playing a stock game (I have no idea about the Mods).

I've played two games now with no warp points and have NOT changed the sight rules. I noticed one serious mistake the OP made - you cannot create a warp point right on top of a planet. It must be an empty hex (except for ships, of course - you can have as many as you want sitting there for defense).

Actually you can make a WP on a planet- I did that yesterday.

I used to always open warp points on planets in SEIV, it was a great way to control them, have a huge planet with a couple dozen fully tricked out weapons platforms, and half a dozen space stations. Nothing hostile is gonna come through that gate.

I had to stop using that late game stratergy in MP games with my mates because they complained it was unfair, and refused to play if i did. I would create one HUB system from which I I would open lots of gates to other systems and build the shield protectors across my empire to stop them breaking in.

That is a favorite strategy of mine. We will have to play some time (when this is a bit more stable).

It's a great way to setup a hub. Nobody else can use your short cut system hubs; then you start to go out through them and close everybody else's WP's.
Bwah ha ha.

What? They ain't dead yet!
What's the hold up? It's already turn 23.

late in the game with SEIV I recall punching a new warp point into an enemy capital system and using star destroying weapons was more or less the only viable attack since most human controlled empires would close any warp point that they could not defend to a level which assaulting it with any fleet would be suicidal. Typicaly 20+ bases with fighters satellites and minefields and supporting ships and then if you did punch a hole in that every world was similarly or more heaverly defended.

I remember a tiny Intel base with six orbital battle stations the only reason it had no weapons platforms was insufficient storage though it did lunch a small swarm of defence satellites to support those the bases lunched. War unless you used star killers was a bloody and pointless affair conducted in space well outside ones Core Empire and theirs. Most of my multiplayer games ended with a galactic federation of those power who realized quite how unlikely military victory was at that stage

We had agreements about the use of system killers, if anyone used them everyone else would turn on them. In later games we used to limit the maximum numbers of ships and units you could have, this is when I developed my hub stratergy as it was impossible to defend your empire otherwise due to ship and stuff limits.

the AI SHOULD use stellar manipulation... i have no idea why in these games they never use them.

The minister's that control the AI's use of Stellar Manipulation haven't been told to do anything yet.

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See subject.

In the scripts. The ministers for each type of stellar manipulation are currently empty.

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