Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

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1814 days, 15 hours, 14 minutes ago

Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept, i.e.landing on a ship that's moving 340-360lys away?

1814 days, 15 hours, 9 minutes ago

ville kauppinen

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

Yes, just make sure you'll end up in the same coordinates with that ship.

1814 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes ago

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

... isn't that the definition of 'intercept' in VGA Planets? :)

1814 days, 14 hours, 56 minutes ago

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

the trick of it is and it is awkward, if the target ship moves out with the 350 range, the mission fails

1814 days, 14 hours, 47 minutes ago

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

Ok, thanks.
@Ecatoncheires: since hyperjumping is a special kind of movement i was unsure. And the intercept mission by itself is not really that straight forward as one might think. Often had some effects that were not that clear.
Regards.

1814 days, 12 hours, 24 minutes ago

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

I'm going to correct this.
No!!
You cannot use the intercept mission to intercept while hyperjumping. Hyperjumping only occurs during regular move phase. You will always end up where the ship was if it started within 340-360 of your jumper. Otherwise you jump 350 ly in its direction.

1814 days, 12 hours, 21 minutes ago

tickles

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

So if you jumped toward said ship and it was not moving you would end up were it was, or actually is.

1814 days, 12 hours, 14 minutes ago

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

Yes but that would happen regardless of whether you had the intercept mission set or not. In the strict sense it is not an intercept.

1814 days, 12 hours, 11 minutes ago

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

Ok, so hyp+intercept doesn't work. Would have been a dream. Catching freighters like a jumping spider and even more useful stuff.

1814 days, 12 hours, 9 minutes ago

ville kauppinen

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

HYP intercept = Jump into the predicted coordinates where the target will be next turn. Thats why I said "just make sure you'll end up in the same coordinates with that ship." in the first message.

1814 days, 12 hours, 8 minutes ago

ville kauppinen

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

... of course it does not work 100% sure but too many players are too lazy to change their route every turn so it works often enough. You'd be surprised.

1814 days, 12 hours, 8 minutes ago

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

Unfortunately no. I tested this thoroughly eary on to see. But you can still snag freighters in deep space with jumpers if the player sets far way points and shows their direction of movement. You can calculate where they will end up and jump there.

1814 days, 12 hours, 6 minutes ago

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

No ville, that is a misleading comment. Hyp intercept is very clear that they were asking about the intercept mission.

1814 days, 12 hours, 1 minutes ago

ville kauppinen

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

Well, I thought 'making sure you end up in the coordinates' comment would give a hint that you need to do the intercept manually.

But, like said it is possible to "intercept" with HYP and with high propability of success.

1814 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes ago

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

Hail,

You can ABSOLUTELY perform a long intercept of a HYP ship that is hyperjumping AND land on that exact spot so long as that spot is the one the intercepting ship is currently at. This is a perfectly legal move that caused controversy in the Blitz tournament. If you need to make sure your ship stays over an enemy HW to RGA/pillage it, you need only jump a HYP ship to that planet. This happens first. The Ship currently over the planet will then intercept this HYP ship and remain on the planet. The beauty is you defeat any attempt to tow you off planet so you can RGA or pillage that planet.

If ship A wants to tow ship B, B can avoid it by intercepting ship C, if C is far away. A moves first, fails to tow B (because B has a distant waypoint and overpowers the tractor beam.) C moves second (in this case it HYPs to the same location as B.) B moves last. It now has a short waypoint because its intercept target C has moved towards it. But it is too late for A to tow B because A has already moved.

If B tried to intercept *after* being towed, it would not work (B would lose its intercept lock and would also be at warp 0.)

This long intercept also works if you intercept any ship 83-83 LY off planet that is heading to that planet.

Cheers,

MEGA

1814 days, 6 hours, 51 minutes ago

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

While a good move mega :)

It is the opposite of what the poster was asking. They wanted to know if a ship set to hyper jump could intercept a ship. With the intent to intercept ships moving through deep space i assume.

So yes, you can intercept ships which are hyper jumping. But no, you cannot intercept mission with ships that are hyperjumping. You can set the intercept mission, but the intercept mission does nothing as the hyper jump happens in the regular movement phase not in the intercept movement phase.

1814 days, 5 hours, 51 minutes ago

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

Hi Seveiht,

Oh yes, I see he is saying if the HYP ship can intercept while moving so it intercepts some ship 350 LY away. Boy, do I wish my probes could do that :)

Thanks,

Cheers,

MEGA

1813 days, 21 hours, 39 minutes ago

RE: Question: is it possible to do a hyperjumping intercept,...

Stop saying intercept if you mean Intercept Mission.

Capitalization prevents misunderstandings.