[TC] Space Flies Slowin' me Down

[Gothsheep]

Here's a problem I've run into lately.


As my empire of evil expands, I spend more of my time sitting around managing assets and less time actually flying. That's fine, you know. It's a natural progression of the game and is good.

However, to ensure I don't get bothered, and because I like the idea of being 'off the grid' when I don't want to be found, I use the UFJ until I find a nice, quiet, abandoned sector to hang around in. Typically these days I'm in my Boreas, just in case some Xenon K jumps from behind an asteroid to say 'boo!'.

So what's the problem?

Space flies. When you go to a sector that's completely abandoned and sit around for a while, these little guys tend to cluster around your ship. Now, because I'm doing a lot of waiting, I tend to use SETA a lot. However, the problem is that the space flies count as objects. Collision detection works in such a way that if an 'object' gets too close to you in SETA, it will automatically knock you out of it.

So the Space Flies keep breaking my SETA bubble. Is there a way to fix that? Or at least some bait I can drop to keep them away from me? I mean I like having them around, they're chill little guys and I imagine my crew appreciates having them to watch while we're not doing anything but relaxing in a corner of space never before seen by man, but c'mon. I need my SETA.

[Gold Dragon]

Uhh...


well...


You could just, you know...... shoot them.... Ion Disruptor and Ion Cannon seem to do quite well.......

[X1000]

Uhh...


well...


You could just, you know...... shoot them.... Ion Disruptor and Ion Cannon seem to do quite well.......

Agreeded.

[yelgrun]

What about ion mines? lay em surrounding your ship, maybe spaceflies would back off.

[Chris0132]

Why not go the whole hog and jump in a capital ship fleet and drop a bunch of lasertowers to defend you from the spacefly armada.

In all seriousness, I don't think there's anything you can do, except try another sector, some seem to be richer in them than others.

[imperium3]

SQUASH mines! Damn spaceflies won't know what hit 'em.

Seriously, bring ion disruptor +spacefly collector, you get rid of the flies and make a tidy sum from selling them off later.

[swordfish694]

I had a problem like that, i was in my tokiyo using seta to train my mariens, but i noticed my ship whas bumping and i was thrown out of seta.
I entered my m3 and moved abit away from my tokiyo, i wasent being thrown out of seta any more. ( didnt know that it where space flies casing me that trouble). Though there are some very good suggestions if i read the other replies

[Gazz]

Maybe if you parked in a planet's atmosphere. Not close enough to blow up but close enough for the little pests to go FWOOOSH.

And what about a spacefly collector...?

[Gavrushka]

I vote for a huge tin of fly spray - Or one of those sticky rolls.

Or is it because the Boreas resembles an attractive female space fly and they're just getting amorous...

DISCLAIMER: I do not find any Spaceflies attractive

[Chris0132]

Maybe if you parked in a planet's atmosphere. Not close enough to blow up but close enough for the little pests to go FWOOOSH.

And what about a spacefly collector...?

You could try that.

Split fire has atmosphere right next to the gate if I remember right, so you could try there if you want to avoid long flights.

I also recently located a crate of 'insecticide' after a sector invasion. I was planning on flying into a khaak home sector and dropping it near a hive queen but you could always borrow it for use on spaceflies.

[Mizzle]

I also recently located a crate of 'insecticide' after a sector invasion. I was planning on flying into a khaak home sector and dropping it near a hive queen but you could always borrow it for use on spaceflies.

I found one of those and carried it with me for the whole of Final Fury as a good luck charm. It doesn't actually do anything though, it's just an item that's put on civilian ships for flavour.

[Gothsheep]

Maybe if you parked in a planet's atmosphere. Not close enough to blow up but close enough for the little pests to go FWOOOSH.

And what about a spacefly collector...?

You could try that.

Split fire has atmosphere right next to the gate if I remember right, so you could try there if you want to avoid long flights.

I also recently located a crate of 'insecticide' after a sector invasion. I was planning on flying into a khaak home sector and dropping it near a hive queen but you could always borrow it for use on spaceflies.

No no, I can't park in the atmosphere of a planet. The whole idea is that I want to use the Unfocused Jumpdrive to take me completely off the grid and do most of my managerial work from somewhere that no human has ever been to before. That way I'm all mysterious and stuff.

As for the insecticide, thanks for the offer, but I'd rather not hurt the little guys. I hear they're good luck. Besides, the Boron would probably get mad at me. (I think the Boron just like knowing that there's a species out in space that's even more pathetic and weak than they are)

[Gold Dragon]

Using the Spacefly collector outside Split Territory is highly illegal, other than pirate/unknown sectors...