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[Fleet Admiral agigabyte]

Was it not in an earlier build?

Nope.

[William_2337]

United Nations Space Command Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1

 

United Nations Space Command Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1
Encryption Code: Red
Public Key: file/ First light/
From: UNSC/NAVCOM Fleet H.T. Ward To: ALL UNSC PERSONNEL
Subject: General Order 098831A-1 ("The Cole Protocol")
Classification: RESTRICTED (BGX Directive) The Cole Protocol To safeguard and protect the Inner Colonies and Earth, all UNSC vessels or stations must not be captured with intact navigation databases that may lead Covenant forces to human civilian population centers. If any Covenant forces are detected:
1. Activate selective purge of databases on all ship-based and planetary data networks.
2. Initiate triple-screen check to ensure all data has been erased and all backups neutralized.
3. Execute viral data scavengers 
(Download fromUNSCTTP://EPWW:COLEPROTOCOL/Virtualscav/fbr.091)
4. If retreating from Covenant forces, all ships must enter Slipstream space with randomized vectors NOT directed toward Earth, the Inner Colonies, or any other human population center. 5. In case of imminent capture by Covenant forces and boarders, all UNSC ships MUST self-destruct. Violation of this directive will be considered an act of TREASON and pursuant to UNSC Military law articlesJAG 845-P and JAG 7556-L, such violations are punishable by life imprisonment or execution.

[Emperorfluffball]

I always see these threads and for a split second wonder why i'm being called out by name, before remembering i'm named after a important in universe protocol 

 

To repeat though, really it couldn't be done. And honestly there is no point with the AI being the simplistic thing it is. If you really wanted to though, a commander could just send a bunch of ships out of a gravity well in random directions to simulate the protocol somewhat.

are you sure? all you have to do is make all of the planets "connected to the slipspace network" like you get with anchor bases after Slipspace Beacons is researched and the covies build their gate...
but that would make the game completely unfair and all sense of "Strategic placement" would mean very little once the enemy got into your star and took a planet...

[Sev]

are you sure? all you have to do is make all of the planets "connected to the slipspace network" like you get with anchor bases after Slipspace Beacons is researched and the covies build their gate...
but that would make the game completely unfair and all sense of "Strategic placement" would mean very little once the enemy got into your star and took a planet...

Considering they got the ability working, then it probably won't do that if the lanes were reliant on a very temporary connection points (similar to the Vasari 'stabilise phase space', only they will just link to a random planet), and the mapmaker won't have to waste time creating slipspace lanes everywhere. Win-Win for the devs.

 

Though thats speculating how it'll work.

[Emperorfluffball]

Considering they got the ability working, then it probably won't do that if the lanes were reliant on a very temporary connection points (similar to the Vasari 'stabilise phase space', only they will just link to a random planet), and the mapmaker won't have to waste time creating slipspace lanes everywhere. Win-Win for the devs.
 
Though thats speculating how it'll work.

but... then you have turtles like me... who rely on strategic planets who offer the only access to a star or to my empire as defensive points...
this would completely ruin strategy except you have to choose what you want to defend... and against the AI it would be a roll of the dice