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[Mr.Mountain]

Turns out the game just wanted to say the whole fleet was there when it wasn't, and it stopped after I had one ship abandoned. I also figured out the problem with the Venus automated mines: the ships were carrying 0.2 automated mines at a time so it'll take a few trips to build all of them there.

[Flying Dice]

Make sure you're using standard cargo holds and not the small ones. Standards have 25,000 tons of capacity, which is enough for a single 'normal' sized facility (aka mines, factories, refineries, &c.).

[MarcAFK]

The early game tends to run rather slowly, so larger time increments or small batches of 5 day increments are your friend.
I typically run with 6 5 day in relents as standard until I need to micromanage fleet movements or whatever.
5 days rather than 30 days seems to help with trade for some reason.

[Sheb]

Because trading ships don't update their orders between ticks. So with a 30-days interval, you'll get at most 1 trade trip per 30 day. With 6 5-days intervals, you'll get up to 6.

[Rabid_Cog]

Someone explained that to me once. Trade ships can only decide on new orders at every increment, so if it takes a ship 13 days to go from planet A to planet B and you advance time by 30 days, it moves to planet B and sits there for the remaining 17 days doing nothing. The same 30 days done in 5 day increments would allow the trader to perform 2 runs instead.

And I got ninja'd.

[Mr.Mountain]

I think th3 same applies to survey ships on default orders. If takes them a set amount of time that's less than thirty days to survey a body, they'll just wait around the body they just surveyed and waste fuel.

[Sheb]

They'll just waste time and maintenance supply, they don't need fuel to orbit a body.

[Mr.Mountain]

Ah, that makes sense.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

I feel like alot of the ship design stuff is different now :x Kinda lost all over again with all the stuff that seems different.

[Mr.Mountain]

What advantages to underground excavation provide? The only description the game gives is underground infrastructure.

[Sheb]

IIRC it lets you build on asteroids with a gravity too low to support a normal colony.

[Shooer]

It lets you build special, unmovable, infrastructure anywhere that provide habitation at a colony cost 4 rate, largely no matter what the target bodies stats are.  You can put em on asteroids, Mercurial and Venusian.  Just not gas giants though.

[Mr.Mountain]

In 6.40, how do you assign engines as civilian? I was using 5.40 and it always had the pull down menu to select it's class... I've seen the error of my ways.

[Karlito]

Engines that are both large and efficient will be classed as civilian.

[RedKing]

Engines that are both large and efficient will be classed as civilian.

Specifically, a power rating of x0.5 or lower and a size of 25HS or larger.