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[Gabeux]

Yeah, the "slow motion" it turns after you start exploring and expanding is really annoying.

I just found one jumpgate in a system, and he is...alone there.
Don't know if there are others yet, I'm going to replace my survey ships finally, and put a halt to exploration for the moment.

Also I built jumpgates to alpha centauri (total = 4), so now I can start some far-away colonies.
I'm also focusing in mining and terraforming right now, building logistic fleets to make everything work, etc.

The only problem is the increment slow down.

[Gigalith]

This game is the very definition of 'fun'. I currently have colony ships ferrying hundreds of colonists to Mars... except there's almost no infrastructure. The population is constantly dying, the Cargo ships can't get enough infrastructure there in time, and the outraged colonists grow angrier by the day. It's like a slow-motion trainwreck where helicopters are airdropping in new trains.

Did anyone else perk up at that part in the tutorial where (I think) it said multiple players could start on the same planet? That would be totally awesome.

[Osmosis Jones]

All my civvies went hostile. I currently have a pair of civ cargo ships floating around the inner system, refusing to land, and a colony ship out beyond the Oort cloud, going full tilt. I think I'm doing it wrong

On the upside, I have mining colonies shipping minerals back to earth from the moon, venus, mars and titania, so the resource shortage on earth is fairly mollified.

One thing though... make sure you dont put load mass driver from earth on cycled orders I lost about fifty factories and mines, and some pop when an overzealous cargo ship nicked Earth's mass driver while a couple of hundred ton mass packets were on-route.

[Thexor]

One thing though... make sure you dont put load mass driver from earth on cycled orders I lost about fifty factories and mines, and some pop when an overzealous cargo ship nicked Earth's mass driver while a couple of hundred ton mass packets were on-route.

It took me several hours of searching the forums to figure out what a mass driver was, and it certainly wasn't intuitive to have one at each end of a route.

But hey, bombarding Earth is fun, right?

[Gabeux]

I was playing at 1 year  ~ 6 months increments in the beggining.
Then started playing at 3 months when the first surveys were build.

Now I can't even get a 30 days increment, even with auto-turn on.
So many things happening...
Not a bad thing though, but sometimes it's annoying when it breaks the increment for something not that interesting..

[AussieGuy]

Did anyone else perk up at that part in the tutorial where (I think) it said multiple players could start on the same planet? That would be totally awesome.

Yeah it is possible. Steve did do a good one. I was thinking we could do a comunity game like he did. 

http://aurora.pentarch.org/viewforum.php?f=16

(and end in a nuclear war) 

[Dohon]

I read through that campaign in one day. Damn addictive. You should also read the Six Powers campaign by Kurt in the fiction section. Glory to the Reich!

As for me, I have given up on actually playing the game. It works fine and dandy, but the resolution is a problem. I tried a lot of options (different drivers, Powerstrip, ResizeEnabler, hooking on a different monitor), but it simply will not work. Which is a damn shame because it really looks like a hugely complicated and thus fun game. And Fun too. I'll try again once I get a new desktop pc.

[omagaalpha]

Did anyone else perk up at that part in the tutorial where (I think) it said multiple players could start on the same planet? That would be totally awesome.

Yeah it is possible. Steve did do a good one. I was thinking we could do a comunity game like he did. 

http://aurora.pentarch.org/viewforum.php?f=16
(and end in a nuclear war) 

Just remember until everyone has done there turn that they can't press any button to advance the time since it will cause time to advance permentantly for all.

I know because I put multiple race on same planet just for fun of it and to have fun destory their ground force. Though on same planet I have not figure out how fire missle at other races yet.

Though I having lot of fun playing around in commander table of database

[Greiger]

*Last time increment 0:12:00:00
*Dracon Empire | Civilian Contact | Vanheim | Contact Update for TP: Eygustison Chariot 002 Thermal Signature Detected! Strength 200.

"Yes, thank you I know I have Civilians flying around my home system, thanks"

*Last time increment  1:12:00:00
*Dracon Empire | Civilian Contact | Vanheim | A strength 200 thermal contact associated with TP: Eygustison Chatiot 002 has been lost.

"I'm sure it's just on it's way to a colony, it's a colony ship.  Just because you lost track of it at the edge of sensor range doesn't mean it has been converted to space dust, chill out man."

*Last time increment  0:6:00:00
*Dracon Empire | Civilian Contact | Vanheim | New Contact!  Contact ID: Eygutison Wagon 001, Class ID: Civilian Wagon, RaceID: Civilians, TCS 650 (Existing TP)  T500 (Existing)

"Oh comon! You know it's not a new contact! It's that same damn freighter that has been going back and fourth from the colonies for 5 years now!"

*Last time increment  1:00:00:00
*Dracon Empire | Civilian Contact | Minas Tirith | Contact Update for TP: Eygustison Chariot 002 Thermal Signature Detected! Strength 200.

"See!? SEE!? Your fired! Give me somebody who isn't so panicky please!"

[Virex]

Don't know what's up with your pulses, but I can get 30 day increments in even with civvies hopping in and out of server range. I put things on auto pulse and it... just works.

[sluissa]

I wonder if it would help if you turned your civilian's transponders on? I wouldn't know. I haven't gotten far enough in the game to have any civilian ships hopping around.

[Areyar]

You can set "no contact events for this system" option in the system map tab "contacts".

Maybe that will alleviate the sensor spam.

[Greiger]

Now that I'm back from school I'll try that.  I have military ships hanging out at every jump into the system so it's not like I'll get surprised by anything.

And that no civilian contacts seems to help, something is still causing interrupts which could be unrest warnings on a colony just barely at it's supported population, It keeps talking about unrest raising by 1/10000th of a percent then going back up because there is no more reason for unrest.  But I don't think that is interrupting because a couple times I got an unrest increasing and decreasing from the same colony in one time increment.  but at least it actually goes for a couple days at a time now.  Thank you for telling me about that checkbox, that will cut down on the spam significantly.

As far as I know the transponders are already on, it's whatever the default is.  Minas Tirith is the only place that still even has a hint of a hostile presence. If they automatically turn them off when near an enemy. It's just one Thermal 10 colony on one of the planets that has one of my new 10 thousand ton cruisers orbiting it until I figure out how to deal with it.

Actually that thermal 10 enemy colony might be it, it could be picking up my colony ships and freighters and all that heading to the nearby planet and the precursors are generating an interrupt so they could think about it a little bit before realizing they have no ships in system and couldn't do a damn thing about it if they tried.

Now to figure out how to obliterate an enemy colony.

[Virex]

Now that I'm back from school I'll try that.  I have military ships hanging out at every jump into the system so it's not like I'll get surprised by anything.

And that no civilian contacts seems to help, something is still causing interrupts which could be unrest warnings on a colony just barely at it's supported population, It keeps talking about unrest raising by 1/10000th of a percent then going back up because there is no more reason for unrest.  But I don't think that is interrupting because a couple times I got an unrest increasing and decreasing from the same colony in one time increment.  but at least it actually goes for a couple days at a time now.  Thank you for telling me about that checkbox, that will cut down on the spam significantly.

I think a change in unrest will not interupt the turn, but it will turn off the auto turn. That means you'll go up to 30 days and then get a message. That's how it seems to work for my officers too.

[Areyar]

Damn aliens seem to be everywhere I explore.

Started without any engine, power or jumptech
Also with a small population, that reduces the number of installations you start out with as well.

Now I lowered my race's tolerances halfway through the game and now home needs to be terraformed because we now got a severely negative pop growth. I fucked myself. ><