Well, kiddies, come, gather round the fire and listen to ol' man Flatty ramble off his wisdom (heh... jus' kiddin!!)

anyway... I was thinking of something that might work in theory...

let's say you had a big ship that you needed to be damaged..... here's what you do. Get a small escort, one that doesn't attack enemy ships. When you're about 1 screen away from your enemy, do the option tab thing until you get to your escort. Fire off SAE's or SAD's at it. Notice how they spin around it but don't hit it. Now, superfast, charge at the enemy ship. Your escort with it's super halo of SAE's will crash into the enemy and all the sae's will blow up and bye bye enemy.

I haven't actually tested this out yet... I know that the SAE's spin around escorts for a while, and then they disappear... but, somehow my mind led me to this weird strategy. Give it a try, see if you like it. Then try it with hunter missiles or something powerful.

Once again, a little bit of knowledge passed down the family tree. Enjoy

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But I thought SADs and SAEs only hit the target that they were after.....

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So did I.
(From the NT c--p at school)

Are you sure? I think I've seen ships run into SAE's (targeted for me) and be hit. What about with rockets? Rockets don't know friend or foe.....

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They do. The tactic, at least to the best of my knowledge, won't work. However, if you release your escort at the precise moment it's over the enemy... BOOM

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(This message has been edited by Weepul 884 (edited 10-30-2000).)

ooooooo... runs off for some testing rounds

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I might try that....

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too bad. Tests have failed. While the SAE's were successful when the escort was dropped near enemy, the other tests failed. The missiles only blew up the escort and the ships around it suffered the normal ship-in-vicinity explosive damage. The sae's, however, blew up the entire freakin' area.

Oh well... it wouldda been cool. Maybe an EV3 feature, you can drag mines/modules/rockets behind you, like in Galaxy Quest

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'And what you don't seem to realise is that we are trailing mines' (or something like that) I loved that movie.

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I think that there should be a mission where you had to round up space mines from the asteroid belt or something, and bring them back to Earth or wherever. Each space mine gets you 100,000 credits, and you drag them around with a tractor beam (back to Earth, or into enemies? your choice.) Maybe for EV3? I dunno. Or am I just rambling?

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deh.... when it comes down to it, we all are

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"The truth?"
"There is no spoon"
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blah yak ramble ramble ramble....

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Very funny, now beam down my clothes. These ladies look rest-less..... uh-oh...
Alien's famous tongue...
"Vionions?? Voinioniommoins?? Viks? Veggies? Vegetables? Oh wait, that's a hewman plant...
AIM: StrikerDragon