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Better idea:  nuke the everliving shit out of Earth.

TBH it sounds like Steve was a tad lazy and didn't code the game so that there is a condition (body must be player controlled colony) for the order to appear. It really isn't a big deal though, as long as you rename your worlds to be easily identifiable.




On an unrelated note, I'm thinking about doing a very nooby Let's Play with better writing and an actual plot (of sorts) to set it up. if there is any interest, and if classes permit. For one thing, you wouldn't have to suffer through any more switching between 1st and 3rd person perspective. 

And then cram several hundred of them onto a massive ship with meter-thick armor and call it a Monitor.


/Weber reference



Also, box launchers + hidden moonbase based corvettes = super obnoxious.

After reloading, I hopped back, and the three destroyer-sized contacts were barely 586k km away. The Tennesse and Kentucky each launched 12 Thor-9 missiles, and ten seconds later, the enemy ships responded with their own missiles. Our volley reached the targets at 439k km. Both enemy targets were destroyed outright, proving the effectiveness of this particular missile type. The three enemy vessels had concentrated on the Tennessee. As the Carolina class frigate has no PD beyond CIWS, the Tennessee was force to fend for itself. 7 enemy missiles were effectively intercepted, while 9 struck the ship. The thickness of the armor of this class proved a godsend, absorbing all but 13 points of damage from missiles designed to deliver 8pt of damage each. Damage was still extensive, completely destroying one CIWS, the targetting sensor, the active sensor, the magazine (which thankfully did not explode) and three engines. There were a total of 163 causualties from a crew of 743. Speed was reduced to half normal, and her only remaining missiles were the ones in the tubes. The damage control crew began work on her fire control system, hoping at least to be able to fire her remaining ordinance.

The Kentucky is unharmed. The remaining destroyer-class is also unharmed. The Tennessee will make an intrasystem jump and withdraw from the system while the Kentucky attempts to eliminate the remaining enemy of this class.

The remaining enemy ship, which has been designated the Pasht 004, followed the Tennessee through the LP. The Kentucky is attempting to draw it off to allow the other ship to escape.

Okay, this is getting really intense. See, this happened just after I got on, and I had forgotten that my recon ships were on top of a LP... 

So they were only a very short way away when I realized it. So now the first flight of missiles is nearly there, and I've detected a total of 112 incoming thermal 14 sig missiles, but I'm only 508m away from the LP and will reach it before they do, hopefully with enough time to make an intrasystem jump to the other point, which is on the other side of Niven.

Edit for justice! The jump was successful, with only seconds to spare. The Nelson is bringing the 1st Squadron through the point now, and the 1st Recon Force will provide fire support. Time to test out my AMM escorts.

Oh, and those absurdly overengineered missiles also have their own thermal sensors, so I'm hoping to see some wreckage soon.

Also, I was considering two-stage missiles for these ships, but with where my industrial capacity and resources were at at that point, I didn't think I would be able to make them in bulk.

FUCKFUCKFUCK 13 THERMAL CONTACTS ARE RIGHT ON TOP OF MY RECON FORCE

Okay, past the first stage of panic at the half-screen of contact ids. Three appear to be the vessels that destroyed my scout and survey vessel, and there are 10 contacts of a new class. The TCS Tennessee is about to engage active sensors. Did I mention that my recon force is composed of two long range missile frigates? With maximum effective ranges at around 380k km? And that the enemy fleet is only 5.7m km away, and that the new class of ships (10 of the fuckers!) are closing at 12500km/s? And that the Tennessee and Kentucky have a max speed of 3946km/s?

The only good news is that my frigates are equipped with massively overengineered "Thor 9" missiles, which have a 121.4% TH chance on targets moving at 10km/s, and that they have STR 15 warheads, which will almost certainly atomize anything small enough to move that fast, if they get hits. OTOH, as these ships are essentially snipers, they only have 1 targetting system each, and have fairly long reload times. Well, if I plan right, I might take some of the bastards with me. And the 1st Squadron is already in position with the Nelson to jump over to this system. Time to roll the dice.

EDIT: Oh and their AS range is only ~65m km, so it looks like their ships are corvette-destroyer types. Probably beam heavy. Edit again. The new classes are only 1000 tons, my missiles should be OHKOs.

Try using Space Master mode and mess with the stats of the planet (like the atmosphere, or the buildings if that may be the problem) until the error stops.

That was how the problem started; I was using SM mode to remove the CO2 and replace it with SGG. 

I'd love to get into this game, it looks like it has so much potential, but the learning curve is just obscene for me. Is there any like, very much taken by the hand beginners guide anywhere?

Well, there is this one by the creator, but he only covers maybe a third of the windows or features, skims over a lot of the stuff he covers, and teaches you to use SM mode to cheat, which probably actually hurt my understanding of the game.


On another note, how do jump tenders work? As in, how do you get one ship with a JD to transfer others than don't have one? Because I tried a number of setups, including the JS + 2 ships with lower mass than the max mass specified by the drive, then only one of those ships, both as a part of the same TG as the JS and seperate from it. Does the drive need to have a max mass rating greater than the total mass of all ships being transferred, or just greater than the most massive ship? Because I've got a JS with a drive rated to 8 ships and 145,000 tons on the way out to the point in question, and if that doesn't work idk what I'll do.

I've tried the reduced height windows, it doesn't change anything at all for me. And that sucks, anything higher than my native 1440x900 is super eye strain-o-vision.

I believe the minimum resolution to not have anything cut off is (X) x 1024. The reduced height windows only makes a few pixels difference but is still worth using. I'm using laptop resolution which is absolute shit for this, but the only windows where important stuff is actually unclickable are the task group screen, the commanders screen, and the system information screen. For those there are a few desktop scrollers that can get you enough button up to click, and then you can keep the window centered and just not close it, so you can click everything.