There is now a new selection when you run into a sector with sector defense fighters. It is called Attack and Run.

This new option allows you to possibly attack overwhelming sector defense fighters and run away. Slowly whittling them down. But there are several catches to how this works. It is basically where you ship drops in and fires off all fighters and torps and then leaves back to the sector it started.

1. Your cloak may prevent the planets in the sector from detecting your ship so the enemy fighters may not be able to attack your ship at all.

2. Your engines affect how many enemy fighters can catch you if the planets sense your ship. The higher your engines are over the planets fighter bay tech the faster you can get away and the fewer fighters can attack you. The lower the more sector fighters can attack.

3. There is remote chance (about 1%) the fighters can swarm your ship preventing you from leaving and destroying you.

4. The number of sector fighters in a sector doesn't affect how much damage you will take. a sector with 20 million fighters can't do any more damage to an Attack and Run than 200k fighters.

This is mainly used for trying to whittle down massive sector defense. It can be very, very costly to do so be careful. The settings for this are still preliminary and will be adjusted over the next few days.

And believe me it is dangerous. I just lost my razor trying...But I knocked 2 mill SD down to around 800K So it is handy but extremely painful if you get a bad roll

There will be a few more changes to that code to add in some scaling so when the amount of fighters gets close to the number you CAN carry or lower than the number you CAN carry your ability to do damage to them goes down. So doing a normal attack ends up being preferable.

And if people who are playing the beta can go the extra mile for me I would appreciate it.

When you do an attack and run on sector defenses could you post a message telling how many armor points you lost, how many you started with, number of fighters you carried and number of sector d fighters you attacked. Also, check your ship report and list any tech levels that were damaged and how many levels they lost if any.

Just report what happened a couple of times for me so I can get an idea of what happened for you.

Keith, I did more than that safely in the last beta without getting damaged. Also I did take damage many a times, just didn't get the unlucky killer damage till I was hitting Saykors sector. His sector is where I took the beating.

But you must understand, attack and run is designed to let an opponent slowly beat down sector D. It might work and it might not. And the cost to your ship could be in serious repairs or getting it destroyed. I was attacking a sector that had high sensors and 2 mill fighters. How many fighters are we talking about that he busted through?

From what the main article PJ wrote about it, probably yes. So he probably walked in with about 9 attacks with very little effort.

How come your always the one everyone picks on must be that high score ya have