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[Kanil]

Alright, so I probably have a few good ideas on how to kill them... but I still need a way to stop my civilians from making more. I took the advice here and obsoleted all my remaining freighter designs, but is it possible to just get the civilians to avoid the system entirely so I can still use my merchant fleet?

Edit: Hm, I've banned the planets that the AI live on currently. That seems to have worked, for now at least. Presumably if the AI colonizes a new world, I'll have to locate and ban it as well, so banning the entire system would still be easier... but this seems to work.

[Ehndras]

I know theres an option on the galactic map to keep your men out of a given system, not sure if civvies respect that though.

[Hanzoku]

Mars has just had a colony built and it needs goods? We only have 3 ships? Let's just sit back and chill.

*20 years later*

Mars is topped up on resources? We have no use for these ships and are slowly going broke? OMG BUILDBUILDBUILD!!!

Gah... I hate you guys...


EDIT: Scientists are trained in Military Academies, correct?

Actually, they should start making money now that Mars and Earth can conduct trade at a decent pace.

[Sowelu]

I never know what size of ships to make.

Also, dumb newbie question.  Does each weapon-bearing ship need its OWN active sensors in addition to FC?

[Mini]

No.

[Tarran]

Also, dumb newbie question.  Does each weapon-bearing ship need its OWN active sensors in addition to FC?

Nope. I believe one ship with an active sensor can help an unlimited amount of others without.

[forsaken1111]

Also, dumb newbie question.  Does each weapon-bearing ship need its OWN active sensors in addition to FC?

No, however some redundancy is good. If your one sensor boat pops you're kinda screwed.

[Sowelu]

Also, what the heck does "picket" mean?  It's not on the wiki and that's dumb.

[Dutchling]

Setting speed to 1 and thus the thermal output to 1 as well.

[Sowelu]

Aha, so the primary purpose of picket is to avoid detection?  Why not just end with "move to", won't a target with no orders do the same?

I guess that once you see an active sensor pulse, you can strafe for almost one missile reload and then engine kill to dodge missiles, yeah?

[Bremen]

Aha, so the primary purpose of picket is to avoid detection?  Why not just end with "move to", won't a target with no orders do the same?

I guess that once you see an active sensor pulse, you can strafe for almost one missile reload and then engine kill to dodge missiles, yeah?

Weapons fire (missiles included) requires an active sensor lock, and the only way to hide from active sensors is a cloaking device.

[Jacob/Lee]

What Bremen said. Weapons fire needs active sensor locks, and cloaking devices only protect you from active sensors.

[Paul]

Only thing killing the engines would protect you against is missiles or mines with thermal sensors, which I've never seen the AI use.

I've used them before, but generally active sensors have longer range unless you're fighting ships that are mostly engines. They can be fun against FACs though, as they won't target anything with no thermal - so any FAC that gets the engines disabled will be ignored by the missiles. And generally a FAC with no engine isn't much of a threat.

[Jacob/Lee]

Dumb question, what does "Extended Orbit" do?

[Tarran]

The order makes the selected Task Group orbit the system body.