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Quote from: se5a on October 14, 2013, 09:05:35 pm

No, the warhead detonates where it is that turn.
if you have multiple warheads you'll need 1 CnC for each Warhead you want to detonate on that turn.
warheads, are detonated the same way as weapons are fired, they even show an arc (though when it detonates it is arcless, ie, even though you must pick an aimpoint for the warhead, it doesn't affect anything)
They don't explode if they get destroyed.

Does this mean that having 2 warheads on the same missile doesn't get you any more damage output?

It'll get you twice the damage output, but you'll need to fire both of them.

TBH I've not found missiles, Torpedoes, or bombs to be that effective in a battle, other than as a distraction or to break up a formation. they do have uses, but tend to be very expensive for the amount of damage they deal, since there's a good chance they'll miss or get destroyed before you can fire it.

Wow, 6 pages long!
a couple of points incase they've not already been covered (6 pages was tldr):

SuicideJunkie (the dev of THANCS) also posts here in bay12, I believe he's away for the weekend but will no doubt poke his head in here once he gets back.

for help, the easiest way is to join the freenode IRC chan #spaceempires.

THANCS is multiplayer only, there's currently no AI.

you may need freeglut.dll it's in the THANCS folder on imagemod (where you got thancs)
just pop it into the local thancs root folder. (where THANCS-perlgui.exe is)

for PBW captcha, see here: http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.php/Races

setting up games currently is a little tricky, and the documentation is a little lacking, bear with us till we get that a little more user friendly.

some time ago I made this horrible howto vid on ship design: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOt4eoFKN1g this was way back with the old designer, since then we've got a better designer built into THANCS-perlgui.exe. still there maybe some usefull info in that vid. I did start to do another better updated video, (with less umming and ahhing) but then tripped over my microphone wire and broke it. oh well.

someone commented on Begin, we (SJ, ekolis and myself) did create a clone of begin some time ago called VecTac (vector tactics) based on begin it has heaps of extra stuff, it's kind of been on the backburner rusting away for a few years, but it's a playable and fun game. if there's some interest I can set up a server and get it running (unlike begin, it's multiplayer only) see me SJ or ed in IRC.

or do I *need* an intermediate stockpile?
it seems odd that you can't select a workshop from the hauling menu for a stop, only stockpiles, but if there's no stockpile assigned, will they fill from anywhere, including workshops?

has anyone tried low speed minecart dodging as a danger room?
what stats would that improve, and how dangerous is it?

Quote from: se5a on January 11, 2013, 05:22:38 pm

This article annoys me in that the writer is appearing to put words in Jake Solomn's mouth.

Nowhere is he quoted as being sorry or apologizing (which is fine by me, I wouldn't apologize for making an impossible difficulty level impossible)

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"I just think it’s too hard. It’s funny because I do have people who tweet me and say ‘I just beat Impossible Ironman!’ and I’m like ‘what the hell is wrong with you? What kind of bad things happened to you in your life that this passes for enjoyment? I’m sorry I even designed a difficulty level like that’."

Okok I'll give you that one.
still though, it sounds like he's more apologizing for feeding someones masochism than what the article portrays.

This article annoys me in that the writer is appearing to put words in Jake Solomn's mouth.

Nowhere is he quoted as being sorry or apologizing (which is fine by me, I wouldn't apologize for making an impossible difficulty level impossible)

from my experience this tactic does not work for FB etc.

what really? that's the average wage for a skillset such as Toadys over there?