Best attack configurations to capture pods

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You don't need any weapons at all to capture a pod. Just set a
"Capture" mission on the pod ID and make sure "Attack Soft" is off on
all ships with weapons so you don't blow the thing up. Once you
capture it, it will become your pod, and then you can command it.

-- Karnak Prime

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I have never experienced this so called 'Combined Intercept and Capture
Mission' bug. The Intercept and Capture has always worked for me (Most
Recent Host).

Notes:
1) With 'Capture'. You can only capture one pod per turn per ship.
2) Your ships final position and the position of the pod must be the
same when movement is complete for the 'Capture' to work.

(There was a problem with intercept & tow [general movement] which
caused the intercepting ship and target object to end up 1ly away from
each other. Tim fixed this movement rounding error in a previous host,
which would have also fixed the above experienced bug.)


Karnak Prime wrote:
> Oh, and as far as the Intercept mission, the last time I tried it on a
> pod combined with a Capture mission (a long time ago), it didn't work.
> If that is still the case, you will have to arrange to be at the same
> X,Y as the pod without the help of your Intercept computer.
>
> -- Karnak Prime

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scumm_gel@yahoo.com schrieb:
> Dont forget that when you set a ship to intercept an object.. Once it
> finishes with the intercept it will either
>
> - follow its waypoint route again

That's not correct, it may sometimes follow it's waypoint after intercept,
but from my expiereence mostly not.

Bye-Bye JoSch.

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Doc schrieb:
> It will follow the waypoint after intercept only after the intercept
> target is destroyed. The intention here is not to destroy your target
> but to capture it, therefore it will not follow the Escort or Waypoint
> targets.

As you can read in my above posting, I answered only to the point "...
intercept it will either - follow its waypoint route again" and wrote that
that often not work.

And what you write if the target is destroyed then my ships and wings
often DON't follow it's waypoint setting and sometimes threy land in
nowhere flying more LYs then they could by normal warp speed.

And you forget that you can lost the scan to the intercept target and in
this case it can no longer intercept it. Had this sometimes too.

Bye-Bye JoSch.