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Scouting

Fri, 20 January 2012 10:23

Altruist

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Scouting
If you have the fuel mizer, you will surely want to outfit your scouts with it. The fuel mizer is cheap, low-tech and together with a fuel-pod allows scouts to move around at warp 9 most of the time.

Scouts with other engines will consume quite much fuel when ordered to move faster than the max speed of the engine. It is quite often to your advantage to do it nevertheless. Faster scouting doesn't only mean faster information about your surroundings and possibly less scouts you need to produce but also less or no time at all for your scouts in open space where they could be seen by other players.

Saving some micro-management:
If you direct your scout to a planet and give it the order to colonize and then direct it to other planets afterwards, Stars will automatically choose the fastest speed. After arrival Stars will give you a warning that you forgot to bring colonists, this warning you can just turn off.

Guessing the design of ships:
Only Warmongers know the exact designs of ships as soon as they spot them. All other PRTs need to engage those designs in battle to determine the exact design. But there are 3 important infos Stars will give you always about foreign designs in the fleet window:

1) the total weight of a fleet including cargo

2) leftclick gives you the number of different ships in a fleet (if there is more than 1 ship)

3) rightclick allows you to view either the design or at least the type of ship hull and always the weight without cargo.

Sometimes you can figure out a complete design by pooling your info about another player. And when subtracting the weight of the ship-types from the total fleetweight, you have as a result the cargo which is carried by the fleet (sometimes quite handy if an unknown freighter is heading for one of your planets and you expect a pop-invasion).

Further reading

Tricks of the Trade by Art Lathrop
Stars! Official Strategy Guide: Chapter 4: Exploration
Moen's Tips for New Players by David Moen
Determing your neighbours PRTs by Michael Martin
And if the next turn still hasn't been genned, a great wealth of articles can be found here:
The Stars! FAQ article base

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