Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
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Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
Sorry if this question has been asked and answered before.
What are the White Rogue Fleets? What do they represent?
And how can I fight back against them?
Thanks for any responses, Free Orion is a pretty cool game.
What are the White Rogue Fleets? What do they represent?
And how can I fight back against them?
Thanks for any responses, Free Orion is a pretty cool game.
- Geoff the Medio
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Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
A "Rogue Fleet" would be a fleet that doesn't contain monsters and isn't owned by any empire.
In what situation did one appear in your game, and what version are you playing?
In what situation did one appear in your game, and what version are you playing?
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Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
The newest version, 0.4.2.Geoff the Medio wrote:A "Rogue Fleet" would be a fleet that doesn't contain monsters and isn't owned by any empire.
In what situation did one appear in your game, and what version are you playing?
They appear when my fleet is next to an Alien outpost, and they comprise of "captured" ships from my fleet.
As far as I know, they are not "captured" due to telepathy, because they do not change colour to another alien race.
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Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
Define "Alien outpost"?doublemandala wrote:They appear when my fleet is next to an Alien outpost...
What colour are they?As far as I know, they are not "captured" due to telepathy, because they do not change colour to another alien race.
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Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
Telepathy doesn't capture anything. "Psychgenic Domination" does -- an end-game tech. There should be a sit-rep message when it happens.doublemandala wrote:As far as I know, they are not "captured" due to telepathy, because they do not change colour to another alien race.
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Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
I had a fleet of ships (10) go to a Star, where I had an outpostGeoff the Medio wrote:Define "Alien outpost"?doublemandala wrote:They appear when my fleet is next to an Alien outpost...What colour are they?As far as I know, they are not "captured" due to telepathy, because they do not change colour to another alien race.
When they arrived, 4 converted to a White Rogue Fleet. The rest of my ships then remained with them.
Then next turn while in Sheliak a battle occurred between my ships and the Rogue Fleet and my ships were destroyed.
I didn't send down another fleet. The same type of conversion occured in Scheat.
I thought maybe it was "Psychgenic Domination", however that did occur in Ragnarok with a purple coloured race, and my ships turned purple and controlled by that race.
So right now, I am thinking a Rogue Fleet can be some hidden type of fleet I cannot detect without the right tech.
I would attach a screen shot, but the maximum allowed size is 1 MiB.
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Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
Your ships might be falling under the control of a Psionic Snowflake monster. Looking at the effects script, it could still happen even if you have Psychogenic Domination.
Use a different file format. Unless you've got an incredibly huge monitor resolution, a PNG or JPG screenshot should be under that size limit. Also, crop it to just show the relevant bits; there's no need to break the horizontal scroll of the forum layout.doublemandala wrote:I would attach a screen shot, but the maximum allowed size is 1 MiB.
Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
pic can be easily shrinked using paint (change size)
Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
Yup, I've had to do cropping on screen shots to get it under 1mb, plus helps to reduce the horizontal scrolling, though I know for some of mine there has probably been some for most.Geoff the Medio wrote:Use a different file format. Unless you've got an incredibly huge monitor resolution, a PNG or JPG screenshot should be under that size limit. Also, crop it to just show the relevant bits; there's no need to break the horizontal scroll of the forum layout.doublemandala wrote:I would attach a screen shot, but the maximum allowed size is 1 MiB.
Also going into options and turning off background options helps a lot with reducing the size for compressed images (like png or jpeg), had to do that for one I did.
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Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
Thanks for the help guys.Geoff the Medio wrote:Your ships might be falling under the control of a Psionic Snowflake monster. Looking at the effects script, it could still happen even if you have Psychogenic Domination.Use a different file format. Unless you've got an incredibly huge monitor resolution, a PNG or JPG screenshot should be under that size limit. Also, crop it to just show the relevant bits; there's no need to break the horizontal scroll of the forum layout.doublemandala wrote:I would attach a screen shot, but the maximum allowed size is 1 MiB.
Here is the screen shot:
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Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
With the size shrunk down like that, I can't really see what's in the screenshot. "crop" is not "rescale".doublemandala wrote:Here is the screen shot:
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Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
Modified. Screen Shot 2.Geoff the Medio wrote:With the size shrunk down like that, I can't really see what's in the screenshot. "crop" is not "rescale".doublemandala wrote:Here is the screen shot:
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Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
Looks consistent with the Psionic Snowflake theory. A quick look at the scripts suggest they'd have stealth about 80, and your empire detection strength is 50, so you wouldn't be able to see them.
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Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
A White Rogue Fleet just moved to Ras, then 2 of my ships in the Deep Space area converted.
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Re: Rogue Fleets : Newbie Question
Possibly the snowflake is in that fleet then. It can convert from one system away, based on the scripts.