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Question wrote on Fri, 02 March 2007 13:05

But if the booster's fuel run out dont they get stuck in space at warp 1?

They would, if you didn't leave them with just enough fuel to get home

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How come a SFX helps fleets repair faster? That sounds like a hidden ability o.O

It's in the manual. If you look in the technology browser in-game (F2), it tells you there also. Here, would you like a blush smiley: , I too, need to use these often here at the forum

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EDIT: oo, just noticed Coyote said the same thing half an hour ago... How did I not see that.... LOL, well, I did say I need blush smileys a lot...

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Question wrote on Thu, 01 March 2007 19:22

I reallly want penetrating scanners though .

Good idea. Drop growth to 14% and/or make hab few clicks worse.

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Also IFE to me seems important because of the fuel mizer, it really bites to lose a large portion of your colonists early on because you took too long to get to the planet.

No ... IFE is not needed in games suitable for AR (dense or packed universes). Carry less cargo, use boosters, refuel at docks on the way, and finally ... fly at warp 7 if you cant fly at warp 9.

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About no ram scoop engines...doesnt that mean your fleets constantly have to run back to a starbase to resupply fuel?

But 1 in 5 hab with immunity means that half planets are terraformable to green for you. That means you will have LOTS of starbases. But generally i suggest no NRSE and no IFE to radiation immune AR.

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Also how do you get a colony to get the resources to upgrade to a starbase? Just shuttle a lot of colonists to them?

Upgrade to dock, its cheap. Keep population of your planets below 120 000 Once you have ultras upgrade directly to ultras. Empty hull costs 480 resources (453 as upgrade from empty dock). So most planets can build it with two turns. Problem is usually germanium ... you carry it to one place then build ultra there then few miners (take mostly ironium), then there is germanium you carry it to other place.

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No advanced remote mining?

No. Can live without so why?

Question wrote on Fri, 02 March 2007 11:37

2 problems i found was :

First trick i suggest ... Learn to count to 3?

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-Getting minerals, starting out getting a fleet of miners is a pain and takes forever to pay back

AR population mines minerals without miners until turn 30 or so.
Short AR tutorial up to year 30:
First you research energy to 6.

At same time build about 5 scouts. Try so that you do not block you from getting that next energy level by building ships.
Send them out to scout as fast and near they can. If you scouted a green planet build scout and pinta merge them take 22kT colonists on board and go colonize it.
You have to leave about 150 ironium on ground (for freighters)rest use up for pintaes and scouts.

Then you research construction to 8.

Once its at least 3 build a medium freighter (QJ5 + fuel tank) put pop on board and send it to bring ironium from most green colony you have. Population leave to colony.
Same do with rest of the colonies.

After you got construction 4 you may start to build docks at colonies. After you have docks at colonies you may build pintaes right there.

Your task is each year to look at your planets minerals, if there is 50kT unused ironium somewhere then you play AR in loser way. True AR never has unused ironium two first decades.

then you get a level or two of bio for terraforming, maybe propulsion 6 (rad rams are nice), maybe better weapons. and go on with energy now and then.

At energy 10 research 3th level of bio.

At 2425 start to research construction again, should have construction 12 at around 2430.

research electronics 6 (for remote miners), propulsion 10 (for gravity terraform, 300/500 gate and trans galactic scoop engine)

Then put up ultras at your better planets and build few remote miners everywhere.
use design mini-miner qj5 engine, one robo super. These get a little damage if you gate them with 300/500 gates but very few disappear to void.

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-Defending the colonies so that small fleets of destroyers dont just go around popping them all in one go

Destroyers are really expensive compared to few shields and weapons on your dock or fort.

Say starter colony with 15 100 pop at 45% planet. energy 7 weapons 0 contruction 8 Some DDs come with red lasers?

Colony has 47 resources and "starter colony" fort.
Upgrade it to fort with 10 wolf shields and 10 blue lasers costs
12i, 24b, 12g and 44r. It is rather difficult to pop it with red laser DD-s.

I dont understand how they pop them? If you do not have particular mineral (say boranium) in some colony then carry small amount (50kT) of it there? Also keep up with weapons tech.

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-Finding green planets with 1 in 5 hab...last game i had to wait 15 years for my scouts to find my first green planet...then more time to ship a pinta there, etc.

Dunno. Sounds nonsense. Play it better.

By 2410 i have usually scouted 40-50 planets. 1 in 5 hab means me about 10 greens there, plus quite a few planets with good values yellow like -1, -2 or -3. With lack of IFE i have kept low profile and populated only the ones within 150 ly range but i have SFX and LF at 2411 and so i start to take planets in 243 ly range too.

If you really got to scout 60 planets to find a green with 1 in 5 hab then appears that some higher powers do not like that you play Stars! There i cant help, i am mere mortal.

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