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[a1s]

Now the duration of turns (hard set by me to 86400, or 1 day) has dropped to 15 seconds. I'm guessing combat? except there's only supposed to be one NPR, who are they fighting?

[KaelGotDwarves]

Check the ctrl+F3 events log, if nothing shows there then perhaps the NPR is attacking another empire that spawned or precursors.

EDIT: advice from Aurora forums that was linked to earlier

I suspect that you have a couple of NPRs engaged in a battle. Use the automated turns option. Click the check box at the top of the System Map (F3) , and run from there. The program will only stop if there is an event that affects the current default race. This WILL be a bit slower if there is serious action going on - I sometimes go off to create a good source of brownian motion at this sort of time as it can take a liitle while!

[a1s]

so how exactly do new NPRs spawn? is it a random chance based on new system exploration? by everyone? (so if they go unchecked these NPRs will spawn exponentially?)

[x2yzh9]

so how exactly do new NPRs spawn? is it a random chance based on new system exploration? by everyone? (so if they go unchecked these NPRs will spawn exponentially?)

NPRs are spawned at game start, and you only find them when you find..Them! A emount is generated so you won't waste 3 days looking throughout the galaxy to find one.

[Mephansteras]

*SIGH*

I have too many games to play right now and no time to play them. And now you give me *another* game that I must try out.

I think you're all trying to kill me.

[KaelGotDwarves]

I'm starting to edit the wiki, meanwhile some useful info that is gleamed from various lists but also what they do (for newbies like me).

Main screen Hotkeys
F2 Economics - Manage your colonies (you'll be here a lot as you can manage research, ship building, and production from tabs of this screen)
F3 System maps - Brings up the overview map/interface of current system (if you don't see anything press this)
F4 Commanders - Promote & assign your rookies
F5 Class Design - Design your spacecraft
F6 Ships - See ships under your command
F7 Fighter Squadrons - Manage the fighters
F8 Battle Control Window - Control ships in combat
F9 System Information - Information (including minerals) about the current system
F11 Galatic Map - giant map displaying system locations
F12 Task Groups - Give commands to your grouped ships
Ctrl+F2 View Race Details - Information on your race
Ctrl+F3 Events log - List of important occurances (Keep open!)
Ctrl+F4 Task Force Organization - Order of command for ships
Ctrl+F5 Intelligence/Diplomacy - Known information about aliens & determine whether they want to kill you
Ctrl+F6 Create Research Project - Design components for usage, research prototype afterwards
Ctrl+F7 Technology Report - Information about your current tech levels
Ctrl+F8 Planetary Markets - Trading information
Ctrl+F9 System Summary - What types of stars are explored
Ctrl+F11 Ships Requiring Repair - Damage report
Ctrl+F12 Fuel Situation - Fuel levels
Ctrl+L Shipping Lines - What's going where
Ctrl+S Spacemaster on
Ctrl+O Spacemaster off

Ctrl+F10 gives me error 91.

[Darkone]

Note to Windows 7 64 bit users:

If you get a DAO error after patching, when you've installed everything right, you simply need to make the game rune as administrator, and run in XP compat mode (maybe not both, I turned both on and it fixed it the first try :Shrug:). Will edit in if I find further problems.

[Chicken Launcher]

I stopped following the tutorial, and I have no goddamn clue what I'm doing.

Awesome.

Also, apparently I geologically surveyed both Mars and Venus in the same way, but only Venus' minerals showed up. 

EDIT: now I tried Mercury, and Mars again with my other ship. Do they just not have minerals? They show up as surveyed when I check the "Show Surveyed Bodies" box

[ChairmanPoo]

What requisites does this game have?

[Cthulhu]

Have your ships actually gotten to Venus?

Anyway, I'm wondering about Mass Drivers, Asteroids, and Relativistic Kill Vehicles (I still think that Relativistic Kill Vehicle would make an awesome name for a dystopian-far-future-themed death metal band).  Could one attach a hyperdrive (A hyperdrive is distinct and separate from a jump drive, right?) to an asteroid or other large stellar body and launch it at absurd speeds toward an enemy-occupied planet?

Can Mass Drivers be used as weapons?

[Trorbes]

Hyper drives allow a ship to travel much faster when on and still about double the output when off, whereas a jump drive allows a ship to travel through a jump point.

No, you can't attach engines to asteroids or anything, but I believe I saw someone suggest being able to grab them with tractor beams for much the same effect.

And no, mass drivers only allow you to send minerals between planets, as far as I know.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Started my let's play.
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=47811.0

[Areyar]

I had similar thoughts and concluded that as there are only a (relative) handfull of asteroids in the belts, they must represent the mountain-sized ones.

Addition of a donut of dust and smaller rocks, where kinetic ammo can be collected and which is a navigation hazard (like nebulas) could be fun and a requirement to make this idea work.

[Magnnus]

Mass drivers can actually be used as weapons, in a sorta way. Firing a mass driver at a planet that doesn't have their own mass driver will result in bombarding it rather than transferring minerals.

[Ampersand]

Replaced my breaking harddrive with one of the same size. May be able to play this without worrying about blue screens corrupting everything.