Hey everyone, I'm in need of some advice from the vets on the following situation:
I'm playing Red in a solo game. The other night I ran my turns and then flew my CFS to SD in order to cloak out. I had 0 turns left and only 1 cloak. After logging out, I switched over SWATH to another server but forgot to change the server in TWPROXY. So after a double-click there I was, back in my solo game at Stardock with 0 turns, 0 cloaks, tons of cash onboard and 55 minutes until the top of the hour and a turn refresh.
I decided to wait online for 55 minutes until my turns refreshed, but had to cook up a strategy in case someone warped to SD and saw me sitting there nice and defenceless - one other player was online at the time and I knew for a fact he was in an ISS with around 30,000 fighters. So I caused Captain Zyrain to warp into the sector (by attacking a sub-1000 exp blue who was at SD) and macro'ed 'ay999^M'. If someone came along that I knew could take me, then I would attack Zyrain, get podded, and thus deny my onboard credits and ship to another player. There's also a considerable bounty on my head so I didn't want another player to collect that either (or did I read somewhere that the bounty only goes to the person who destroys the escape pod?).
I know that I should've had more Cloaks and should've paid more attention to what TWX was loading. But given the situation, was the Zyrain attack the best possible plan if someone entered the Stardock sector? I initially though of CBY but wouldn't that mean I couldn't log on til the next day and that I would lose huge chunks of my align/exp? Was there a better plan that I could've used? Not that I plan on being in that situation again
, but I'm still curious.
Thanks
PS In the end no one ever came to Stardock, and I was able to cloak out at the top of the hour. Phew
