[SPOILER] has gotten too close, game over, but its far away!

[Zirus Blackheart]

Hay all

THIS GAME IS SUPERB!!!

But i'm stuck on the last sector :-/

I've gotten there three times now, 1st i died, second "The flagship has gotten too close! game over" so the 3rd time I made sure it didn't get "close", it was about 5 jumps away and i jumped into the jump ya start in, "Base" because i needed to repair and that msg pops up again n its game over :-s

What governs when this message appears because its really annoying

Thx for ya time!

[English Narwhal]

It's governed by 'jumps'. The Flagship will jump X amount of times, and when it reaches zero, you lose. As a general tip, you want to be as ready as possible the sector beforehand.

[5thHorseman]

There is a counter on the screen telling you how many jumps until the flagship is at your base. Without spoiling much all I can say is the number can't get lower than 3. If it's 2 and you're not in the same beacon as the flagship, it'll be too close and you'll lose.

Before that, though, farm that final sector. You can get 500 scrap pretty easy before having to worry about the Flagship.

[shadowcrust]

I've missed the flagship a fair number of games myself (one time the flagship was on the left-most beacon of the map when it supposedly was one jump away of the federation base on the right side of the map - probably it uses some sort of ultra-advanced ftl jump augment), but if memory doesn't fail me, you can actually confront it when the counter is already at 1. The counter is quite counter-intuitive (haha), because each number is displayed during two jumps. So you have 5-1, 5-2, 4-1, 4-2, 3-1, 3-2, 2-1, 2-2, 1-1 (engage now!) and 1-2 (too late). The counter resets somewhat after each part of the flagship phases, though.

[spacecadet13]

If you can jump to or be waiting at the beacon where the flagship makes its "final" jump to ( showing 1 jump, full red line to beacon) you can let the jump counter get to zero; but often there is little point in this as the beacons get over-run by the rebels and the beacons therefore have no scrap/reward value other than points for beating a ship.

It is misleading because before your first encounter with it, the flagship can be several jumps away from the base, but the counter tells you its only 1 or 2 away.

[Dontmindme]

I believe how it works starts off as 5thHorseman said, you must have it 3 jumps away or meet it on the beacon with 2 jumps to go, but decreases with every stage. In other words, you must have it 2 jumps away or meet it on the beacon with 1 jump to go and after Stage 2 you must have it 1 jump away or meet it on the base beacon.

[5thHorseman]

I believe how it works starts off as 5thHorseman said, you must have it 3 jumps away or meet it on the beacon with 2 jumps to go, but decreases with every stage. In other words, you must have it 2 jumps away or meet it on the beacon with 1 jump to go and after Stage 2 you must have it 1 jump away or meet it on the base beacon.

It's actually what spacecacet13 said. I misremembered.

If you can jump to or be waiting at the beacon where the flagship makes its "final" jump to ( showing 1 jump, full red line to beacon) ... It is misleading because before your first encounter with it, the flagship can be several jumps away from the base, but the counter tells you its only 1 or 2 away.

I actually caught it on video here. Pause it at 0:15 to see the situation. Had I been able to jump to where the flagship was, I could have fought it. Amusingly, because the Flagship rests for a turn I *should* have been able to jump to it with no problem, but the game still "YOU LOSE"d me.

[Zirus Blackheart]

It's governed by 'jumps'. The Flagship will jump X amount of times, and when it reaches zero, you lose. As a general tip, you want to be as ready as possible the sector beforehand.

Great excellent, read this n now done it! basically I completely didn't see the big counter at the top! LOL ehhe

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