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[Khan Boyzitbig]

I remembered after going bed that mesons actually are a little odd in their Range Modifier stat, the base weapon shows R1.5 doesn't it? That means the queens and workers have 60kkm range not 90kkm and explains why the warriors didn't shoot first, they can only hit targets upto 120kkm. So I do outrange them with my weapons, just about with the 10cm lasers but enough that I have the advantage. Might as well grab some medium range missiles and heavy anti-capital missiles for the queen.

[StagnantSoul]

Saw a singular precursor ship, yeah, 140 missiles for one cruiser may be a bit much, but you never know what that thing was carrying... Now, time to salvage the wreck and find out what that thing was carrying.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Did it shoot any down? It might have been a sensor ship if it didn't. Whereas if it did you could guess what weapons it had.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Whoops, forgot my battlecruiser design also allows the shipyard to build a civilian ship, not the first time I have built the wrong ships because more than one class can be built in the same yard without retooling.

[Rince Wind]

Or have my entire fleet be faster than her, I think she has 1500 shields or 15000 shields, EM sig is 45000 from shields anyway and I can out run her with everything bar the tankers which shouldn't be anywhere near her anyway so casual massed laser and particle beam strikes from outside her range should suffice.

But how well can you hit at that range and how much damage do you do? You need to outdamage the shield regeneration, and that can be harder than it sounds with lasers not doing much damage at range and generally mediocre hitting chances.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Or have my entire fleet be faster than her, I think she has 1500 shields or 15000 shields, EM sig is 45000 from shields anyway and I can out run her with everything bar the tankers which shouldn't be anywhere near her anyway so casual massed laser and particle beam strikes from outside her range should suffice.

But how well can you hit at that range and how much damage do you do? You need to outdamage the shield regeneration, and that can be harder than it sounds with lasers not doing much damage at range and generally mediocre hitting chances.

About 50% accuracy for both the laser armed frigates and the particle beam armed cruisers, okay the frigates are hitting for one damage at that range but the cruisers can hit for 5 or 6 and shoot about 4 times per 10s iirc. And I do have a lot of ships. (whether I still have them after killing the little swarmers is another story)

[MoonyTheHuman]

I wish i could get this working under Wine.
Anyone know how?

[Dakorma]

I wish i could get this working under Wine.
Anyone know how?

There's an explanation of how to get it working under the wine entry for the game itself.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=33254 Dunno how old it is or if it still works but it's been awhile since I've done anything with linux anyway.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Thought I would share this, because it was a surprise to win flawlessly, they never even hit my ships and they were at least two tech levels above me (50% ECM and 40000kkm/s ASMs...)

I was playing Aurora 4x and had a "little" fight with the precursors, I sent what I though would be just enough ships to take out the four enemy capital ships and their scout. 5 Battlecruisers, 10 missile cruisers, 15 missile destroyers and 25 ordinary destroyers. Turns out I misjudged their numbers, they actually had another 8 or 9 ships of three previously unknown classes and had a much larger tech advantage than I had thought. I won with 0 losses despite bringing the obsolete AMMs and running almost out of missiles (in the fleet, had thousands back home). I suppose firing 195 missiles every 50 seconds really helped. Both sides ran out of Anti-Missile Missiles before the end (not that mine did much good, 12% accuracy and all) and I accidentally destroyed their scout (I wanted to try and capture it) but it was a fun fight.

Also, does anyone know what absorption shields do and how to use them? I have the techs (lovely ruins) but they confuse me.

[Shooer]

They take damage and absorb it.  The more they absorb the stronger they glow on the EM field.  They dissipate a set amount of energy over time but if they get over filled they collapse.  They also let through damage as they absorb more.

[RedKing]

Dumb question that I can't believe I've never thought about before:

Is there a way to incorporate recovered alien components into designs, instead of just burning them for research points?

Like, if I find some really nice engines or lasers that are above my tech level, can I just chalk up a design and incorporate them somehow? I don't see a way to have the components in my build list, which makes me sad. I was getting excited about a scenario where a starter race begins digging through a massive alien ruin on their planet, and assembles ships out of the junk they dig out of the ruins.

[90908]

Dumb question that I can't believe I've never thought about before:

Is there a way to incorporate recovered alien components into designs, instead of just burning them for research points?

Like, if I find some really nice engines or lasers that are above my tech level, can I just chalk up a design and incorporate them somehow? I don't see a way to have the components in my build list, which makes me sad. I was getting excited about a scenario where a starter race begins digging through a massive alien ruin on their planet, and assembles ships out of the junk they dig out of the ruins.

If I'm right, whenever you salvage an alien ship you can use the parts it gives you. Don't quote me on that though.

[Rince Wind]

Yes you can, I used ECM that was way better than mine in designs. Of course, you are limited to the number of components you salvage, but it can still be a lot better than just some research points.

[Detros]

On Design screen there is a checkbox for "Show only own components" which is set to YES by default.
Tick it off to see pillaged enemy parts so you can incorporate them into your new designs.

[Eschar]

How can I create a temporary task group to assign ships to? I want to send my current surveyors out, but they can't load movement orders because of "shipyard tasks associated with the fleet" - two more vessels which will be built in few months and automatically assigned to Survey Task Group. So I want to assign the current vessels to a temporary TG.