Lasertowers useless? Not so fast...

akeelah · Post by **akeelah** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 06:11

It turns out lasertowers are like pennies. Individually or in small quantities, they border on useless. But, if you have enough of 'em...

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Q vs the lasertowers

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And it's over before you know it

Zloth · Post by **Zloth** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 06:14

Ha! Very nice.

jack paralax · Post by **jack paralax** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 06:16

Wow, took some time to orchestrate that one. I'll bet the animation brings most computers to their knees.

akeelah · Post by **akeelah** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 07:06

jack paralax wrote:Wow, took some time to orchestrate that one.

Quite the opposite. To be honest, I just dumped them there to get rid of them. I had mistakenly overproduced them and later decided I really needed the TL they were stored in. So I jumped it to it to X472, dumped them and forgot about them. I figured they'd be gone in no time. But then Betty informs me they're under attack, and I watch on the Sector Map (from OOS, mind you) as a Q goes down in a few seconds. I jump in to see for myself, and there was a 2nd Q slowly approaching. Boom! Gone in a matter of seconds. Now I can't tear myself away. It's hugely entertaining!

jack paralax wrote: I'll bet the animation brings most computers to their knees.

Surprisingly, no. The animation is quite fluid. Nothing at all like a 'roid-filled sector with a big complex in it.

In fact, the whole thing is positively mesmerizing to watch. It's like sitting in front of a nice fire or an aquarium. They Xenon keep coming, and the lasertowers keep putting on quite a show killing them.

350 (or so) of them all slowly turn in unison to point at the target...

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Ready... Aim....

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Fire!

It's quite the show, really!

Edit: link fixed

mrbadger · Post by **mrbadger** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 08:02

your links are all tiny thumbnails

Rilder · Post by **Rilder** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 09:37

Thats... awesome.

Catra · Post by **Catra** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 09:43

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XanII · Post by **XanII** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 09:45

You didnt deploy them at all? just eject:350 units and then they get scattered around to avoid colliding each other? that sounds nice.

If they do that then they can be very useful since i got sectors where there are fabs/sats near the gate that would get attacked first -> i would fly in and it would be nice to get some assistance from laser towers as i attack personaly the assaulters.

Catra · Post by **Catra** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 09:49

You didnt deploy them at all? just eject:350 units

that is how you deploy them

(and its also why spacewalk boarding fails so hard right now

)

Magnu · Post by **Magnu** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 09:58

I'm going to try this in

Spoiler

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Terran Unknown Sector 3 in an attempt to keep the Q's at bay.

I've tried everything else.

Mystery00 · Post by **Mystery00** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 10:07

XanII wrote:You didnt deploy them at all? just eject:350 units and then they get scattered around to avoid colliding each other? that sounds nice.

Didn't know they scattered themselves either, this is very useful indeed.

XanII · Post by **XanII** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 12:03

I had a hunch they do scatter. but didnt realize you can actualy just dump them all and you lose none.

Blocking That Aldrin xenon sector would be nice. i have let them run rampant there and focused entirely on Aldrin 1 and 2.

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 12:08

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Always reminded me of... this.

The end result is quite similiar anyway. =)

All ships that you "set position" in space use the safe placement routine, trying to find a safe spot before settleing.
That's why in terran sectors with their huge stations you sometimes have satellites or whatnot warp 100km away when you deploy them.

Le Baron · Post by **Le Baron** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 12:14

Lasertowers are often underestimated, very often! Especially when you see that you can afford 50 of them for 6 Mio Credits, worth an unequipped M6

and 50 of them are enough to destroy a Q within 7-9 seconds.
No other weapon is that powerful for just a few credtis ^^

http://es.xfire.com/video/b4008/

Cyricist · Post by **Cyricist** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 12:34

Well now, you've just given me something to do with that 62 million I have to invest in sector security

"Xenon... Q.." *zaBOOOOOOOOOOOM*

TTD · Post by **TTD** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 12:41

A good handful of fighter drones mk II plus one well positioned laser tower helps a lot in one particular instance in TC

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Final Fury...
When you go to destroy all the Kha'ak stations in their home sector

akeelah · Post by **akeelah** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 15:35

XanII wrote:You didnt deploy them at all? just eject:350 units and then they get scattered around to avoid colliding each other? that sounds nice.

That's right. It all resulted from of a series of mistakes. I had screwed up in over-producing all those lasertowers in the first place. Then, in an effort to correct another unrelated screw-up (is there a theme here?), I decided I needed that Hercules right now, and the lasertowers were just in the way.

In a fit of frustration, I jumped the Hercules to X472, ejected them all at once, and jumped him back out. I was OOS at the time, so there was no collision-detection involved. In fact, it was quite some time before I jumped in to see it all first hand.

akeelah · Post by **akeelah** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 15:36

Gazz wrote:[ external image ]

Always reminded me of... this.

The end result is quite similiar anyway. =)

All ships that you "set position" in space use the safe placement routine, trying to find a safe spot before settleing.
That's why in terran sectors with their huge stations you sometimes have satellites or whatnot warp 100km away when you deploy them.

Now THAT's how it's done!

Cyricist · Post by **Cyricist** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 16:03

akeelah wrote: Now THAT's how it's done!

Takes a long time to setup I imagine...

Le Baron · Post by **Le Baron** » Wed, 20. Jan 10, 16:09

Cyricist wrote:
akeelah wrote: Now THAT's how it's done!
Takes a long time to setup I imagine...

No, bcs. it's done by a script (written from Gazz if I'm right), which is named accordingly: "Ring of Fire"

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Lasertowers useless? Not so fast...

Lasertowers useless? Not so fast...