Zorg Empire

I'm getting really confused about some things.

I probed somebody's planet and moon earlier today. A reinforcement showed up on the planet and on the moon. He also has a massive fleet and defense on his planet. Thinking he was offline, I attacked the moon. My intent was to crash the reinforcement on the moon. Then I saw him move his fleet from planet to moon so I recalled my attack. He sent me a PM why I was trying to attack his moon when there was nothing there. This got me really confused.

I checked again the espionage report. There was a reinforcement. But I noticed the reinforcement on his planet and moon are the same. I sent more probes... there was no ACS depo on the moon. So I figured maybe reinforcements on the planet also shows up on the moon.
Next experiment to see if the reinforcement will also defend the moon... When he sent his fleet back to his planet, I sent an attack mission to his defenseless moon (10 espionage probes). Guess what? My fleet was destroyed on the first round.

I'm nearly 100% sure that ACS defend on the planet will also defend the moon and vice-versa. I don't know if it is bug or a feature of the game.
Conducting more experiments to confirm it. Stay tuned...

When a player ACS's the planet it does appear on the report. I know the guy you are talking about too, I lanxed the planet and seen his fleet on ACS or "Destroy". Havent tested whether you can hit it or not but it is defiantly a bug, your fleet cant be in two places at one time.

That makes it a whole lot simpler, just crash the reinforcements on the moon and the planet's easy pickings.

-Istalris-

You havent seen this guys defense.

Confirmed. The reinforcement on the planet also defends the moon.

It is possibly a bug, but then maybe a feature?
ACS DEPOT = The alliance depot supplies fuel to friendly fleets in orbit helping with defense. For each upgrade level of the alliance depot, 10,000 units of deuterium per hour can be sent to an orbiting fleet.

Since it is orbiting the planet and is not actually on the planet, maybe we can say the fleet's orbit is near the orbit of the moon that it can defend both planet and moon?

Squirrel wrote:You havent seen this guys defense.

If it's who i think it is i have, it almost rivals mine!

-Istalris-

Istalris wrote:

Squirrel wrote:You havent seen this guys defense.

If it's who i think it is i have, it almost rivals mine!

-Istalris-

I, myself, would love to get that as a compliment from you. Have fun crashing him. Post the combat report please, and how good are his defenses?

Has anyone asked Zorg about this weather it is a feature or not?

Still waiting for more comments. If people say it is a good feature then maybe we can leave things as it is.

I had a hit where this happened. I was confused and thought the Defender had split up their forces between the planet and the moon. Visions of huge DFs were dancing in my head. Fortunately, I hit the moon first which had far fewer defenses. When I did, the fleet disappeared.

I had not thought about it too much before, but in my opinion, ACS should be for the planet or the moon. Personally, I don't care. For my purposes it just gives me a choice to pick the lesser defended of the two. However, that is probably not fair to someone who has built a big Turtle Defense and gets crashed in the way I describe. I don't know though, this might be the way it is supposed to be - by design.

My curiousity is piqued about this other giant turtle. You would think I would have learned the lesson. Please- no "Curiousity killed the cat." quotes.... I know..

ACS should only defend one not both. I assume its a glitch