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[Flying Dice]

Absolutely not. Those will have absolute horrid hit-rates against fast ships, never mind enemy missiles. You need mid-single-million km ranges, 1 MSP size, WH 1, and maximized speed + chance to hit.

To put it in perspective, if someone else fired one of those missiles at you, you'd need about 8-10 to guarantee that you'd shoot it down.

[EuchreJack]

There is a solution for that. C# (Said C Sharp) Aurora is in the works, no solid release date yet so far as I know.

To play Aurora without actually attempting to go through whatever the installation process is (I didn't) use this:
See, I can learn just fine.

OK, I can't name my URL something fancy. That's fine.

Anyway, it's a link to the official Aurora forums/the official post for the Portable launcher.

I've been having trouble getting Aurora to work lately.  Lets see if this is any different.

Nope, still broken for me.  Economy page collapses on Colony Selection.

[Culise]

Hit places with geo teams as fast as possible, there's nothing to be gained by waiting (So far as I know)

There's something to be gained, but only very little.  However, on the other hand, waiting until you've depleted one or more resources is actually a rather bad thing, so I agree that waiting is a bad idea.  A geosurvey team's result is essentially a second free survey roll with one extra effect: if you roll a mineral deposit that already exists, you get the *greater* of both amount and accessibility.  In essence, you get four conditions:
A. Your geosurvey team comes up with nothing, or comes up with a deposit that has both a smaller amount and accessibility: nothing happens, and you keep the existing deposit.
B. Your geosurvey team comes up with a higher accessibility at the same or smaller amount already on the system.  You keep the amount already present with the new, higher accessibility.
C. Your geosurvey team comes up with a higher amount at a lower accessibility (most commonly the infamous 10-million, 0.1 accessibility deposits).  You get the higher amount at the accessibility already present.
D. Your geosurvey team comes up with both a higher amount and higher accessibility.  You get the newly-found deposit, plain and simple. 

The motherlode, naturally, is to combine a high-accessibility, low-amount deposit with a high-amount, low-accessibility deposit; that gives you a high-accessibility, high-amount deposit of the sort Detros posted earlier.  Because the amount is replaced rather than added, it can be beneficial to wait to bring in a geosurvey team when your deposits start running a bit low.  However, then you run the risk of running the deposit dry, at which point you no longer get to keep its accessibility if you find a large but inaccessible deposit.  Plus, it's a bit fiddly to wait; it's simply easier to drop a team on the rock and search right away. 

If you make your survey teams survey some of the less worthwhile bodies then it is possible for them upgrade in skill, which in turn could give them an increased chance of having positive results when surveying bodies.

Thankfully, this was changed in 6.0.  The only thing geosurvey team skill now affects is the time it takes to complete the survey.  You no longer need to worry about wasting your only geosurvey chance by using a low-skill team; you'll just be waiting a bit longer. 

[coleslaw35]

If you make your survey teams survey some of the less worthwhile bodies then it is possible for them upgrade in skill, which in turn could give them an increased chance of having positive results when surveying bodies.

Thankfully, this was changed in 6.0.  The only thing geosurvey team skill now affects is the time it takes to complete the survey.  You no longer need to worry about wasting your only geosurvey chance by using a low-skill team; you'll just be waiting a bit longer.

Oh, that's actually really good. I always felt nervous about using low skilled teams on important planetary bodies.

[RAM]

Agreed! Having to run multiple geo teams to farm the cream of the crop for your A-team was a hassle.

[Detros]

Do you play with maintenance off?

2 and something years of maintenance is enough when you have just 6 months of deployment time. Try to go for 12 months of deployments at least.

The motherlode, naturally, is to combine a high-accessibility, low-amount deposit with a high-amount, low-accessibility deposit; that gives you a high-accessibility, high-amount deposit of the sort Detros posted earlier.  Because the amount is replaced rather than added, it can be beneficial to wait to bring in a geosurvey team when your deposits start running a bit low.  However, then you run the risk of running the deposit dry, at which point you no longer get to keep its accessibility if you find a large but inaccessible deposit.  Plus, it's a bit fiddly to wait; it's simply easier to drop a team on the rock and search right away.

That Nastrand-A I has actually been surveyed only from orbit yet.

There are usually so many places for possible mining site that I don't wait and try to have my geosurvey team always working. I send them to all places that I have already found some minerals in and possible to few other ones if I haven't found decent place with duranium or so in the given system. IIRC, geosurvey teams have four times smaller chance to find something than orbital survey, though.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

I guess my engine tech isn't suitable then. Cannot make a fast AMM thats less than 1 MSP that can also hit something. Well I have got stronger engine techs to research, making the warhead smaller will no doubt help.

[Rince Wind]

For 1st gen AMMs about 25k km might be OK.

I have to say though that I don't really use AMMs anymore and rely on point defence instead. You need more or heavier ships to make it work but they don't run out of ammo. Bigger fights can cost you a lot, and really big ones against well developed NPRs will drain your stockpiles in no time. A 300 round magazine is rather small for AMMs.

[spazyak]

Decided to start trying to play this abnd I am confused. Any tips or help for a new player at this game?

[Rince Wind]

Try asking more specific questions. It is a bit difficult to just generally say something when we don't know what is confusing you.

[Shooer]

You can look up and find about half a dozen unfinished tutorial video series's people have made.  1-2 of those should help you get started.

[Man of Paper]

I said it a while ago, but try playing alongside quill18's Let's Play. It's slow, but you can acclimate to the game, and he does go over things like missile construction. I'm actually probably going to watch it again and start a new game since I haven't played in a while.

[Metalax]

For creating AMM's likely the most important tech to pick up is the warhead power techline(and hence reduction in space required for strength 1 warhead) followed by engine power multiplier then engines.

I have to say though that I don't really use AMMs anymore and rely on point defence instead. You need more or heavier ships to make it work but they don't run out of ammo. Bigger fights can cost you a lot, and really big ones against well developed NPRs will drain your stockpiles in no time. A 300 round magazine is rather small for AMMs.

I've found it better to mix both AMM's and PD. Don't try shooting down everything with your AMM's, instead use them to thin out incoming salvoes, making it easier for your PD to mop up.

When operating with a battlefleet rather than scouting in force, I'll frequently also include laser PD frigates that will detach from the main fleet and hold position 3/4 of their range in the direction of attack set to area defence mode, to further thin out incoming salvoes.

[Alastar]

IMO early AMMs are pointless, too many tech lines that need to be at least somewhat decent. Base-tech railguns do nicely, the only tech needed is BFC speed rating.

Even later, I often find that a decent AMM platform + adequate missile stockpile + supply train takes up so many resources that an equivalent expenditure on beam PD would neutralise more missiles without the logistics burden.
If I use AMMs, I have a specific reason. Maybe I want missile launchers for offense/bombarding, and figure I may as well get some defensive use out of them in a pinch. Or I care about ability to stay on station for a few decades over raw combat ability... this tends to be impractical with beam weapons, easy for AMMs in box launchers. Most of the time, I'm looking for an excuse... efficient beam setups don't always make for exciting games.

[spazyak]

Been having trouble with this and not been able to find a guide elsewhere, any clue how to set up mass drivers between 2 planets and how to transport them?