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0003784AI War 1 / ClassicSuggestion - Interface Ideas - Notifications, Warnings, and AlertsAug 31, 2011 9:45 am
Reportermindloss Assigned To 
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Product Version5.015 
Summary0003784: Warning on deleting home force field
DescriptionTo be honest, I'm not even sure *I* support this request, but I figured I ought to point it out anyway. I was trying to free up force field slots in a game yesterday and had my home station double bubbled, so deleted one of them to free up a med FF... and there was no free med FF. It dawned on me after a second that I had deleted what (unless I'm mistaken?) is a gratis medium-sized home force field.

Should there maybe be a "Are you sure?" dialogue to keep idiots like myself from doing this?
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WeaponMaster

Aug 30, 2011 7:52 pm

reporter   ~0013048

Maybe instead of doing that, make the home forcefield rebuildable through the build menu. It's been a while since I've played but I don't think the home forcefield was allowed to pass through warps, so you might need to make it homeworld only somehow if it can't go through warps.

Ranakastrasz

Aug 30, 2011 9:01 pm

reporter   ~0013049

How about having a T2 force field instead of a Home command force field, similar to how you start with 2 T2 Engineers and 2 T2 scouts?

mindloss

Aug 30, 2011 9:55 pm

reporter   ~0013050

Ranak, that sounds like the way to go to me...

Incidentally, I tried scrapping my Home Command itself today... nothing happens. You can Ctrl-drag a box around all your starting stuff, hit Del, and it all goes up in smoke except the com center :)

TechSY730

Aug 30, 2011 10:07 pm

reporter   ~0013052

Yea, adding 1 to the ship cap to the Mk. II forcefield and spawning with one I think is a good idea. It should also make the normally startlingly difficult to get through first wave in multiplayer a little more reasonable, as the Mk. II is tougher than the Mk. I home version (Mk. I hp with Mk. II radius).

Hearteater

Aug 31, 2011 9:45 am

reporter   ~0013054

Or just make the home FF not scrap-able like the home CS.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Aug 29, 2011 7:00 pm mindloss New Issue
Aug 30, 2011 7:52 pm WeaponMaster Note Added: 0013048
Aug 30, 2011 9:01 pm Ranakastrasz Note Added: 0013049
Aug 30, 2011 9:55 pm mindloss Note Added: 0013050
Aug 30, 2011 10:07 pm TechSY730 Note Added: 0013052
Aug 31, 2011 9:45 am Hearteater Note Added: 0013054