Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24903406-20141007051629/@comment-24.114.66.63-20141007141137

AdmiralJoshNinja wrote: Were battles ever fought like real ones though? I thought even in the ISAF/UR war the battles were still mostly: March your fleet in and shoot (may the best group of ships win).

Not quite like real wars, but not like how it is now. Typically, we would position our fleets or go engage an enemy base/battle group/whatever, and then play out the engagement in game in a series of 1v1 battles until one side either retreated or had all their ships destroyed (ships that survived their battle could be used again in the same fleet engagement). Sometimes, if a ship could be disabled and then approached, it would count as a capture in RP and the capturing faction would get its blueprints (only happened once as I remember, but one of Phoenix's Charybdis-class light carriers destroyed the weapons and engines of my UR Viper-class torpedo boat without sinking it, so I posted the blueprint in the ISAF comments and then that faction started producing their own version based on it).