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- From: paulsen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Brian Paulsen)
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- Subject: Re: This has gone too far.....
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:13:31 GMT
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- In article <gfBy7V200VB4M5DF0g@andrew.cmu.edu> el0g+@andrew.cmu.edu (Erik Lauer) writes:
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- >>Ask the tons of people who have tried to slip by me when I'm in a scout
- >>whether or not I ran out of fuel. If you get phaser lock in a scout,
- >>you are still probably doing somewhere around 30-40 points of damage per
- >>shot. Unless you started off low in fuel, you aren't going to run out
- >>of fuel. And if you do run out, the guy is doing warp 1, and you just
- >>have to wait for enough fuel regen to fire a torp.
-
- >Perhaps the cloaker is an AS. If you start off around 4000 fuel, and
- >phaser around 30 points I don't think you will get it down to warp 1.
- >Of course you probably can get some help, but without any I don't think
- >your scout will succeed. If you phaser lock a large ship with a SC, and
- >you have no help available, don't they usually uncloak anyway?
-
- But with an AS, I can still close in on you and start doing 60-70 point
- phaser blasts. And, if I feel inspired, I can fire torps directly on you,
- where detting does you little good.
-
- Do they uncloak? Usually not. Unless they have loads of fuel, it does
- little good. If they fire, I dodge and they waste fuel. If they don't
- fire, then I'm back a little farther from the enemy than I hoped, but
- not far enough that I can't still close in on him.
-
- Brian
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