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*sighs* Okay, one more question: Can mass drivers fire mineral packets through jump gates, or do I need a dedicated freighter group bringing back all of this tritanium for my missile production?

From what the dev says, he only designed for the game for himself, and anyone else playing it will just have to deal. His main "solution" was "Go buy another monitor". The program I've been using to help with that is called the GiMeSpace Desktop Extender. It's freeware, but it spams popups maybe every 30-60m asking you to buy it, and is a pain to remove. If you do get it I'd say get rid of everything but the zipped file when you aren't going to play for a while. Relocating the taskbar to the right or left helps a bit as well.

So basically, learning cliff, no big deal. Shitty UI and indifferent dev? Big deal. I mean, I get that it is a hobby for him, but it bugs me mainly because this game would be so much better if the little issues like that were cleaned up.

Quote from: Sheb on August 21, 2011, 02:27:48 pm

Pumping a moderate amount of FLUOR in the atmosphere can help. You don't want radiation if you want to use the planets, but dust isn't nearly as problematic, so energy weapons can work if the atmosphere is thin enough.

Or just suck up all their air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VptOUWC-Itc

How did I know this was coming? 

Anywho, I started a new game, in which I will be designing and fielding (hopefully) capable ships before I start exploring other systems. Right now I've got tenative designs for 4 classes, and I was wondering if people could help point out glaring flaws: I've gone ahead and gone with self-suffficient designs for these first ships so I can concentrate on fielding greater force as opposed to churning out masses of colliders, spotters, etc. Also, yes I am cheating and playing with maint off until I get to the point where I can handle the combat system well enough that my ships survive long enough to need repairs and overhauls. And my Earth started with a somewhat more realistic population, so I should have ordinary production running well within a year or two on these models.
My mainline warship.

My AMM "escort" which is larger than the ships it protects.


My long range support/sniper vessel. I'm planning on turning this into a cloaking bastard once my tech gets there.


Finally, my weaponless scout, which is more preparation for the future, when I'll be developing vessels that need spotters. It sould also be useful as a sensor platform when grouped with my current destroyers simply because it means none of them have to have activated sensors.



EDIT: Also, accidentally clicked the "add Sol" button and now I've got a star stuck in my system list. And the 'delete star' button is greyed out. Any way to fix this, or should I just force a jump point connection and work it into universe canon?

EDIT2: Okay, whew. There was a "delete system" button hidden below the edge of my screen, and I thought to scroll down there. I was also very careful to delete the correct system.  Another problem that wouldn't be one if the UI wasn't so shitty specialized...

Thanks for all the help, finally back to the fun stuff. Namely, finding that one of my JPs is 2-way gated to the Proxima Centauri system, which contains two Earth-like planets and three wrecks... Here's hoping there aren't any hostiles one jump away through an undefended gate, or things could get interesting very fast.

Okay, I'm really hoping I'm not missing something obvious here: For some reason, I can't load an (1) Engineer Brigade into my transport fleet, consisting of 4 ships with a capacity of 2 battalions and 2 cargo handling modules. I've tested, and I can load a number of other units using the Task Groups window, but when I try it with engineers the ships just sit in dock doing nothing. 

Okay, yeah, my guess was spot on and I already retooled my design. Silly me for thinking that this game, at least, would allow you to split units between multiple transports a la Starship Troopers.

Okay, there are two things that I can't for the life of me understand: How do I order my missile-based ships to fill their magazines, either from a planet or a collier? and how do I add newly constructed ships to a TG? Okay, finally figured out that they are automatically added to the Shipyard TG, which doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense (though it does make more sense than designing a game that can't be played on screens that don't support one obnoxiously large resolution).

Complete newbie here: How is missile design handled? Because for the life of me I can't find how to design them, although I can see where they would be produced, as standard ICBMs are available by default. Got that one.

Edit: Another question: when designing colliers, are cargo holds or magazines used for missile transport?