Squiddy McSquids possibly short life - {Possible spoilers inside}

[Ozman202]

Outstanding Squiddy you have inspired me to start the hub plot solely so i can mess around with the gate network

[ascmesomething]

You know, it might be a good idea to check you can put the gate network back together again before you started taking the universe apart at the seams.

[softweir]

Sigh. As usual, X behaves completely different for me than it does for everyone else (apparently.)

Did the Ryu have any missiles? Remember, you have to let it follow you and waste ALL its missiles before it will stop.

[apricotslice]

The Power of the HUB, saved for posterity.

Squiddy, if you wanted to join all the Race home sectors to the HUB, without actually disabling any sector, could it be done ?

Anyone know where the 2 hour recharge is located ? Personally I'd like to down it to about 5 minutes.

Seriously, using the hub to reroute gates is worth a guide on its own !

[ChairborneRanger]

This all begs the question of how one would reverse a gate shutdown...

[Lancefighter]

This all begs the question of how one would reverse a gate shutdown...

Possibly connect the gates again, and disconnect them differently?

Is it possible to make a one-way gate?

[Creston]

Sigh. As usual, X behaves completely different for me than it does for everyone else (apparently.)

Did the Ryu have any missiles? Remember, you have to let it follow you and waste ALL its missiles before it will stop.

It had shot all its missiles already, in fact it did so right at the start. It was firing the hammerheads at me when I was backing off after my first strafe run.

Maybe the fact it got rid of its missiles before I killed its cannons is of some kind of influence.

I'll try again in awhile, on a slightly smaller target.

Creston

[Orion1632]

Creston, I got my Cobra finally, by following someones advice and to do a head on pass at the ship, and as you pull up over it's nose drop the marines, They will then be in front of the target, who will run over them. Worked like a charm for me. I couldn't get my Cobra to stop either, no weapons or missles left and still didn't stop. It did have guns in cargo.... does this count?

[apricotslice]

Present for you Squiddy :

http://apricotmappingservice.com/squiddy.jpg

[Alec_trev]

well done on lasting this long...and being alive long enough to get over 100000 views.

[DocIceT]

I thought at first that gate disconnection is simply a bug, given that one would not normally expect to insert the hub into one of its own gates.
However, if such gates can be reconnected then the hub is indeed the biggest weapon or biggest blessing of the universe.
In either case the cost of getting it to work seems quite reasonable in that light.

[S_Ha]

Kingdom End(S) <------> Hub(01A) Hub(01B) <------> Three Worlds (N)
Argon Prime(S)disabled <------> Home of Light (N)disabled

So can you repair the broken link by alingning a gate to Argon Prime(S)
or Home of Light(N) ?
If you cant you better be carefull with what you break.

[amtct]

This story of X playing is very good,So good that actually I made a story book.If NUKLEAR-SLUG wish I can share it with you.I consider that its easyear to read this story from a arranged doc...

[SymTec ltd.]

So can you repair the broken link by alingning a gate to Argon Prime(S) or Home of Light(N) ?
If you cant you better be carefull with what you break.

That's what I'd suggest testing. Having closely followed Squiddy's story, I would not be too happy with him being caught in a maze of unconnected sectors without the chance to ever fix the universe again.

@all Doing this to your gate network is not advisable. I did some very rough things to the Universe in the Scripting/Modding section, resulting in massive economical breakdowns and wiped out sectors, but I would never do that to my main save game before I knew I could fix it later. I don't know yet if breaking the map is safe.

[NUKLEAR-SLUG]

You know, it might be a good idea to check you can put the gate network back together again before you started taking the universe apart at the seams.

Ah, but then you'ld lose the thrill of discovery and where's the fun in that?

Squiddy, if you wanted to join all the Race home sectors to the HUB, without actually disabling any sector, could it be done?

At present I'ld say no. Because you only have 2 sets of gates to play with and because the Hub inserts itself between sectors you could really only join 3 of the race sectors together..

.. unless of course there's a way to manipulate the gate pairs so that you only half break each. That way you could leave one end anchored in the race sector and the other end at one node of the Hub which would allow a maximum of 6 sectors to be effectively linked by the Hub.

This all begs the question of how one would reverse a gate shutdown...

Currently the process appears irreversible.. So be good and sure you want to break that gate node before you do it.

Maybe the fact it got rid of its missiles before I killed its cannons is of some kind of influence.

I think the key issue is the command running on the target ship. When you attack it then it goes into combat mode and runs an attack command on you. At this point it still has weapons. Once you destroy the weapons it's still running that original command but doesn't realise it has nothing to fight with.

What you need to do is get it to reset the command it's running. Most of the time just changing to another ship seems to do the trick as when it assigns a new attack command to the new ship you're in it suddenly realises it has no guns anymore so it gives up. Try jumping out of the sector and then back again so you're no longer the ships target, then hit it a couple more times. See if that does it.

Present for you Squiddy :
http://apricotmappingservice.com/squiddy.jpg

Most kind!

So can you repair the broken link by alingning a gate to Argon Prime(S)
or Home of Light(N) ?
If you can't you better be carefull with what you break.

Currently not, so as you say, be sure you know what you're doing.

This story of X playing is very good,So good that actually I made a story book.If NUKLEAR-SLUG wish I can share it with you.I consider that its easyear to read this story from a arranged doc...

Feel free to do whatever you like.

That's what I'd suggest testing. Having closely followed Squiddy's story, I would not be too happy with him being caught in a maze of unconnected sectors without the chance to ever fix the universe again.

While the sectors are disconnected from free traffic they still act just fine as jumpdrive focus points so you can jump into any sector you've kicked off the network just fine. After all there wouldn't be much point having a kingdom if you can't get to it..

[perkint]

Squiddy - have you seen anything to suggest whether the NPC ships can navigate around the now disabled gates?

[amtct]

Feel free to do whatever you like.

Thank you!

[amtct]

I put NUKLEAR-SLUG "Squiddy McSquids possibly short life" story in a pdf book for download.


http://rapidshare.com/files/182228821/S ... t_life.rar



With thanks for NUKLEAR-SLUG who wrote the amazing adventure!

[Kofa]

Thanks!

[amtct]

YOU ARE WELCOME!