zanosg wrote:Im reading that there are a couple ships that move resources from Sector Omega. They fly back and forth all the time. My question, if anyone would know, if I track them down and bring their hull down to slow them down without destroying them would they get replaced?
So I don't know for sure but I can tell you my experience with this.
I got the idea to do this with lasertowers after they took their second area. I wanted to slow their expansion so I'd have plenty of time to build up myself.
So when the commonwelth guys told me they were going to try to retake the sector, I still had a sat up from before OCV took it. So when the split (or whichever race it was) launched their assault, I jumped in on the gate (with my only ship, a M6) that led to their other system and started dropping my lasertowers right in front of the gate 2 at a time while spinning my ship clockwise and traveling at about half speed forward. Also dropped some squash mines for good measure. Then jumped out.
It took the towers 7 mins or whatever it is to come online, but then they absolutely destroyed the little collector deca ships that I think are the ones that ferry resources. This went on for an hour and a half or so without OCV doing anything about it besides making more deca ships and sending them to suicide against my towers. At one time there were at least a half dozen or so that had apparently bailed I could have collected and I don't know how many dead. The towers were literally killing one every 10 seconds, as a new one or two would pop out of the station in the center of the sector and fly right into the towers. Eventually though a M7 came through from the other side of the gate and wiped out the towers. However, 3 of the decas were being shot at that time and were almost dead, and moving at like 200/ms. I don't know for certain but I think this slowed down their expansion plans considerably. I did it again and had the same results another time. I stopped doing it though because I feel like its cheating. Also, I'm on day 5 now and they just recently took tiger theta. The deca transporters are repaired now but I don't know if they got destroyed somehow during other commonwelth attacks or if they fixed them on their own.
One thing for sure is that they can be slowed down considerably with 4 million worth of lasertowers on a gate anytime you want. You pretty much just jump in drop em and go. As far as I can see the ships in the sector just leave them there. I don't want to do it too much though because I want them to be a threat and in my game they are still on their second iteration and only have like 3 systems, and I think my attacks on the deca ships might be why
) - the second part of this task - with checking quantity of docked class - is out of my skills for now 
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