terror star question

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In my last game I built a terror star and set out to destroy the Yor. I did so without hesitation, however I was unable to attack two of their systems. Selecting the terror star and right clicking the system didnt nothing at all. Is there anything that will prevent the use of a terror star attack?

~SDC~
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Make sure there wasn't a UP issue passed to keep Terror Stars from attacking. Was your Terror Star part of a fleet? We'll play around with this functionality and try to find out what could be happening :)
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Have you researched Planetary Destruction? Once you have a Terror Star researched and built, you still need to research Planetary Destruction in order to destroy star systems with it. I wasn't able to determine from reading your post, whether you had already used the Terror Star against other star systems or not, so I'm replying under the impression that this was your first-built Terror Star, and your first attempt to use it against a star system.

Hope you find this helpful. :)
-GeorgeT
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Boogie:
No UP terror star ban's were in place.

george:
This terror star was on a rampage :) I had destroy 7 systems when I encoutered the other 2 that I couldn't attack.

I'm wondering if it was a range issue. Is there a range limitation with a terror star?

idle

~SDC~
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Hmmm, that's very strange indeed. I do believe the range is limited with the Terror Star, but the range limitaion would/should prevent the Terror Star from even entering the sector that the star systems are in, not from letting it get close and not be able to attack. I remeber two or three games ago, I tried to send a Terror Star to the opposite end of the galaxy, and I got the "that's too far from one of your planets or starbases to travel to" message. I put a couple of starbases to make a 'route' to get there, and then the Terror Star was able to go there. But I've never encountered a fully-functional Terror Star that wasn't able to attack systems once I got the ball rolling. :) I'm completely stumped. :( Sorry I couldn't have been more helpful. Good luck, and if you figure out what caused this to happen, let all us folks at these boards know, so we'll know what to do when/if we encounter Terror Star duds in our own games in the future. :)

Good luck. :)
-GeorgeT
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
:notsure: In my games when you get the message "that's too far" I send my ship/ships one sector closer and then "all of a sudden" they can go on from there. I don't know if it's a bug but I have been able to send constructors etc... all over the map.