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[Sirus]

Of course, that's an additional level of micromanagement that you may not wish to do
Up to you, really.

[Flying Dice]

Everything but player race and maybe meritocracy has some penalties, though I'm not sure if they just affect the initial setup or not. I think some governments can have an impact on your translation skill?

Bit late on this, but IIRC High Imperial Monarchy is the best possible government type, as it gives:
+10 Diplomacy
+5 Determination
+10 Expansionism
+10 Trading
+10 Militancy

and doesn't add any xenophobia.


But yes, you're going to want to find a good ratio of FC:Weapons. It'll differ based on what they are; I typically use a 1FC:4Turret ratio for PD Gauss and lasers, 1FC:6Launcher for missiles, 1FC:2Turret/Mount for offensive EW, and so on. You can also get by with fewer FCs if you don't mind doing a lot of micromanaging and doing a hotseat-style rotation, sort of like "Link Laser #1-4 to FC; fire; link Laser #5-8 to FC; fire; etc.".

Darn spaceninjas.

[Felius]

But why wouldn't I want xenophobia? Humanity Uber Alles! All hail the Imperium of Mankind!

That said, the rotating weaponry for the laser FC sound like a pretty good idea actually. If you simply assign them to the FC on separate ticks and keep them firing non stop as soon as they reload you might not even have to unassign the cooling down lasers.

[Metalax]

But why wouldn't I want xenophobia? Humanity Uber Alles! All hail the Imperium of Mankind!

That said, the rotating weaponry for the laser FC sound like a pretty good idea actually. If you simply assign them to the FC on separate ticks and keep them firing non stop as soon as they reload you might not even have to unassign the cooling down lasers.

I can't recall off the top of my head if it will let you fire while some of the assigned weapons are recharging. If it does that would simplify things a bit as once the cycle of weapons are assigned then as long as you kept firing the cycle would continue without needing reassignments.

[Flying Dice]

But why wouldn't I want xenophobia? Humanity Uber Alles! All hail the Imperium of Mankind!

That said, the rotating weaponry for the laser FC sound like a pretty good idea actually. If you simply assign them to the FC on separate ticks and keep them firing non stop as soon as they reload you might not even have to unassign the cooling down lasers.

I can't recall off the top of my head if it will let you fire while some of the assigned weapons are recharging. If it does that would simplify things a bit as once the cycle of weapons are assigned then as long as you kept firing the cycle would continue without needing reassignments.

It should; EW weapons aren't really "reloading", they're recharging their capacitors. The capacitors on the unfired weapons would still be filled, and FCs can fire every 5-second tick. Of course, what you'd be doing would be removing the assignment of the recharging weapons and assigning the unfired ones. So you'd remove (as per the example) Lasers #1-4 from the fire control as well as adding Lasers #5-8. If you had, say, three sets of lasers with 10 second recharge times, you could cycle through them continuously as long as your reactors and FC were intact.

[ThtblovesDF]

More FC is fun thou, you can keep firing while your a floating, worthless space husk!

[LoSboccacc]

it is more redundant a ship with duplicate system or two ships? 

[Johuotar]

Alright I got survey ship going to survey 5 next system bodies and ordered it to refuel if it gets to 30% fuel. Next then I need those ships that get the automines to some roid.

So the goverment types do affect the player? I thought they affected just the NPR AI, like aggressivity and so on.

[Metalax]

As we've discussed slightly up-thread, the government types effect you initial start conditions and once the game is going effects the cultural modifiers that apply primarily to diplomatic relations with other factions.

For your asteroid miner, make sure that you create a colony on the asteroid that you are going to mine, they will only place mined materials directly into a colony stockpile. After that you can use massdrivers/freighters to move the minerals to their destination.

[ThtblovesDF]

Make a mother ship that docks onto metroids, drops a few auto-miners and a mass launcher off, plus a few men. Let your new flying weapon station go to town on alien planets you don't like. Who doesn't love overly pricy and complicated weapon systems.

[Felius]

Make a mother ship that docks onto metroids, drops a few auto-miners and a mass launcher off, plus a few men. Let your new flying weapon station go to town on alien planets you don't like. Who doesn't love overly pricy and complicated weapon systems.

Shouldn't you call Samus if you have metroids in your game?

[vaaern]

Damn, how do you even start to play this game? Is it worth it to even start with it? (=very confused after starting it up)

[miauw62]

Tutorials

[Johuotar]

For your asteroid miner, make sure that you create a colony on the asteroid that you are going to mine, they will only place mined materials directly into a colony stockpile. After that you can use massdrivers/freighters to move the minerals to their destination.

I found suitable roid in geological survey report and pressed create colony, can I now mine the asteroid and transport the minerals with massdrivers or freighters?

Damn, how do you even start to play this game? Is it worth it to even start with it? (=very confused after starting it up)

Well if you learn it you can boast to your friends that you can play Excel Wars.

[Karlito]

Yep, mine away.