Weird thing happened in Homeworld

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-06-06 10:29pm

I was on a skirmish with a computer player, and one of his Destroyers was firing at my mothership while my Heavy Cruiser was shooting it to bits. Well, then, one of my resource collectors came and rammed right into the destroyer. My question is, why? he was on a clear path, he just turned and crashed into it, he sacrificed those resources to damage a dying destroyer for no reason. Does anyone know why?

p.s.Heavy Cruisers can take on anybody.

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2003-06-06 10:50pm

Well.... resourcers can kamikaze. Are you sure you didn't unintially send it a kamikaze order?

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-06-06 10:55pm

How do you send a kamikaze order?

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2003-06-06 11:04pm

Select your ship (anything up to and including a resource colletor), select your target and press k. And yes, you can tell a resource collector to attack something.

But, after thinking about a little while longer, that probably didn't happen to you. It was probably just the resourcer AI messing up.

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-06-06 11:07pm

The Resource AIs can mess up, that's one heck of a mess up, if that had been a more important ship, I would've been pissed.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-06-06 11:59pm

I once saw a short video where the Mothership Door opened up and slammed into an enemy CA, destroying it without damage to the Mothership

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-06-07 12:30am

Could you provide the link?

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2003-06-07 01:01am

How good of a game is Homeworld?

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-06-07 01:06am

Straha wrote:How good of a game is Homeworld?

It easily falls into the "genre (re-)defining groundbreaking unmissable and unforgettable classic" category.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2003-06-07 01:11am

weemadando wrote:
Straha wrote:How good of a game is Homeworld?
It easily falls into the "genre (re-)defining groundbreaking unmissable and unforgettable classic" category.

Ahh.. how cheap?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-06-07 01:13am

Straha wrote:
weemadando wrote:
Straha wrote:How good of a game is Homeworld?
It easily falls into the "genre (re-)defining groundbreaking unmissable and unforgettable classic" category.
Ahh.. how cheap?

Actually pretty cheap.

Shouldn't be more then $20 at the most.

And like Weemadando said...it's worth ever damn cent.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2003-06-07 01:17am

Ghost Rider wrote:
Straha wrote:
weemadando wrote: It easily falls into the "genre (re-)defining groundbreaking unmissable and unforgettable classic" category.
Ahh.. how cheap?
Actually pretty cheap.

Shouldn't be more then $20 at the most.

And like Weemadando said...it's worth ever damn cent.

I think I'll get it tommorowish then. Mayeb Sunday

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-06-07 10:36am

FaxModem1 wrote:Could you provide the link?

Alas, no.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-06-08 01:39am

I got it for $10 at fry's...

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-06-08 01:44am

Last time I was at Fry's I noticed there was a sequel out. Is it better/worth getting?

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-06-08 01:53am

What weird things have happened to ya'll while playing Homeworld, and I mean things that are bizarre to funny to impossible. Any stories?

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-06-08 02:13am

Raxmei wrote:Last time I was at Fry's I noticed there was a sequel out. Is it better/worth getting?

Cataclysm? I didn't care for it a whole lot, but some people like it. Its not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but I didn't think it could fill HW's shoes.

Now, HW2 is a different story. I'm looking foreward to that like you can't imagine.

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-06-14 04:17am

So,no one has a weird occurance in Homeworld they wish to share?

Like I decided to be grand and have my mothership duel with the enemy mothership and after a while, both just stop fighting.

Anybody else got anything weird or funny happening in this game?

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-06-14 06:46am

Meh, I got it for £5.

On topic: The only weird occurence I can think of is a multiplayer game in which my opponent and I traded probes for the first ten minutes or so, trying to get them on a collision course for each other's mothership...

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-06-14 08:42am

Weirdest thing to happen to me on homeworld was when i was playing it multiplayer once and i built so many ships when i set them in formation, several of them went outside the map....

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-06-14 08:53am

The Jumping scouts bug was always a bit of fun, but the best tactic was to get a cheap fleet together and position it in a custom formation and then try and get them all to hyperspace inside the enemy mothership - it's a bit of fun and it works rather well - my mate managed to get his mothership to ram the other mothership as a spectular finish to the game...

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-06-14 10:10am

3rd Impact wrote:Meh, I got it for £5.

On topic: The only weird occurence I can think of is a multiplayer game in which my opponent and I traded probes for the first ten minutes or so, trying to get them on a collision course for each other's mothership...

Probe Golf!

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2003-06-14 12:41pm

The only weird thing that's happened to me was in skirmish where I sent two probes to find the enemy, and both smashed the other guys mother ship, and then my second wave did the same thing. That got me mad.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-06-14 12:53pm

Yeah a weird thing happened to me when playing the SW:Invasion mod. ONE, thats is 1 ISD MkII carved up 30 cap ship feddies fleet while only suffering 25% damage. Is that normal. I had intended to sacrifice the ISD while my main fleet moved into a position to ambush the Fed fleet.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2003-06-14 01:30pm

Yes thats normal, from what I remember.

Me and a friend had a fighters only game, I decided to draw him out, he sent his fighter force, then I attacked him, his fighters arrived VERY close to the mothership, and STOPPED, did nothing.