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[Flying Dice]

Does it drive anyone else nuts that the moons in Sol have the wrong gravity - to the point that Titan has more gravity than Mars? That always annoys me, why should Titan magically be habitable when I can't put a colony on Luna?

In reality Titan has even less gravity than Earth's moon.

In all fairness, Luna should be habitable because Robert Heinlein said it should be.

[Paul]

It bothers me so much I always edit the database to reduce Titan's gravity to what it should be, just so it doesn't taunt me with its habitableness. Most of the moons and such seem to have wrong info for stuff like gravity, I guess Steve just made it up as he went or something.

I reported it on the official forums ages ago but he never bothered changing it. Guess he doesn't care.

[Tarran]

Does it drive anyone else nuts that the moons in Sol have the wrong gravity - to the point that Titan has more gravity than Mars? That always annoys me, why should Titan magically be habitable when I can't put a colony on Luna?

In reality Titan has even less gravity than Earth's moon.

Yeah, that drives me nuts.

So I edited the database for Galilean moons, Luna and Titan. The gravity is still wildly wrong, being about twice as what they should be (not sure, based it off of the gravity of Callisto in-game), but since the gravity habitability is so restricting, I believe I have an excuse.

Now, I can live on Luna, the four largest Galilean moons, and Titan without genetic engineering.

If you want me to send you the database password and the download to a pretty decent editor so you can edit the database yourself, just ask.

[Paul]

See my previous post, I already edit the database Been doing so since I first started playing like a year and a half ago.

I always go through and change all the major moons to using the proper gravities, made a little text file of the changes. Makes me unable to habit any of them, but that's better than Titan magically being habitable for some reason.

I also change them to use images appropriate to them so I can start up a new game and see them all looking like the planets instead of a solar system full of blue filler images. Technically you can do that ingame, but I often start more than one game per version so its easy to just do it in the database while im there.

I always just edit the database with OpenOffice. I'm sure there are better database editors, but it works just fine for going in and changing SolSystemBodies in a few places.

[Flare]

I'm on the leadership screen. What buttons do I click to get someone assigned to earth?

[Tarran]

Top left, select the drop down for leader types. Civilian.

Left hand, select officer. Or use right, search for your favorite.

Center, select the planet.

Go to bottom right, click Assign.

[Flare]

I think I might need to look up how to change the resolution.

Edit: Holy cow! Even more buttons !

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, the commanders screen is pretty complicated, and is one of the three that needs a scrolling desktop or non-laptop resolution.

[Flying Dice]

Lololol level 15 nebula, 167km/s per armor level max speed, and two survey ships stuck in there without fuel. Got a lvl 8 on another of my points, with a limit of I believe 332km/s per armor level max speed.
1: Have half your border systems be nearly impassable nebulas.
2: Get annoyed and delete the game
3:?
4: Fun! Well not really because I'm still playing a spreadsheet with occasional moments of Weberesque awesome space battles.

[Tarran]

Pffffff, that sounds like fun.

Still, you have to admit, they make very good defensive systems for beam platforms: I've heard that missiles don't work in nebulae.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, missiles don't work, and speed is a direct function of armor. So basically you churn out some ships that are basically nothing but balls of armor with a juicy core of engine and meson, toss them in, and let invaders grind themselves down.




The point where I deleted that save was when the one jump point that didn't lead to a high grade nebula was naturally gated and led to a system full of hostile aliens and their 10,450 km/s 12,950 ton ships.

[Tarran]

If you're upset with that, you could've always created some more jump-points with SM mode.

[Flying Dice]

I could have done that...

Spoiler: Don't read this if you want to find out a super important secret about the game!! (click to show/hide)

But I didn't. Mainly because running a new game gen takes less time than relinking all of the jump points. Apathy above all else?

[Tarran]

Relinking all the Jump Points? Why would you need to relink them?

Personally, it's much quicker to just create a new jump point or delete the system that you don't like on the other side of a jump point than start a new game. It takes seconds. Literally, seconds.

[Flying Dice]

Eh, either way, I'm already started in on the new game, and I'm going to stick this one out. Not least because I've already got an operating civilian ship in less than 2 months.