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[Tarran]

why the display indicates that many of the planets in Sol still have survey points (even Earth) even if a GEO Survey ship cancel its order when ordered to do a survey? Because it is survey points only doable by a geo team?

The game still displays the amount of points needed to survey bodies even after they've been surveyed. As far as I know the numbers have nothing to do with geology teams.

[Micro102]

I don't like how the survey points work.

Instead of having different survey points reveal different parts of the system, it becomes more of a "% completed" type of thing. If you survey half the points, you reveal a random half of the system.

And every system has the same amount of points even if they have few amount of planets.

[vorpal+5]

thanks Tarran.

Stupid question, why would I want to put EM sensors that can only work if the enemy ship has an active sensor ON or a shield raised, in comparison to a thermal sensor that can detect all ships all time because they have always engines?

Even more stupid, why use active sensors whereas thermal sensors always work and can't be detected? Just a matter of range differential I guess?

[Osmosis Jones]

Because they are more effective at detecting colonies, IIRC.

[Thexor]

IIRC:

Active sensors have good range, and when active are good at detecting ships.

Thermal sensors have much lower range than active sensors. They can also be negated with low-emission engines.

EM sensors only work against ships using active sensors/shields, but they're passive and they have good range - sometimes higher than active sensors, which means you can passively detect them before they actively detect you! (They also spot colonies passively at good range.)

[a1s]

Thermal sensors have much lower range than active sensors.

No they don't. not usually anyway, what kind of behemoths are you building?!

edit: I guess I was wrong, though I could swear I detected TH720 ships on the other side of the asteroid belt (with a planetary sensor, but still...) back when I played.

[Micro102]

Anyone ever pump everything into research speed first? Fighting doesn't really take place until you choose to go to a different system.

[Snook]

Downloading now. Any useful tips/tricks/etc for a new player? Is there anything like TinyPirate's DF Tutorial (or "how I learned DF in 4 hours") for this?

[Zangi]

Read the thread?  Possible after... page... 30-ish?  First lot of pages has a lot of bitching and whining.

If I remember right, Steve has put up some 'tutorials' in his forum.

[cartmann]

Yeah, plenty of tut's for you to build your knowledge on. What I would recommend  is learning how to create your own player races and systems etc. so you can practice combat and other things you may want to do, as opposed to just mining, researching etc.

[vorpal+5]

I started with the wiki tutorials and then asked questions

[vorpal+5]

I was wondering why there is no unload x colonists order?

[Mephisto]

I tried playing. This is one time where Wine is better than Windows - I can set my virtual desktop to 1280x1024 and drag the window when I need to see something not in view. But, no complaining about that.

I played for a bit until I ran into an error that I've completely forgotten the wording of. I think it mentioned ActiveX. After clicking OK, I get a neverending stream of some other error.

[Grax]

I tried playing. This is one time where Wine is better than Windows - I can set my virtual desktop to 1280x1024 and drag the window when I need to see something not in view. But, no complaining about that.

My WinXP Nvidia drivers are able to be set (and flawlessly show) up to 2048*1536 virtual display on my 1600*1200 with smooth edge scrolling (even in DirectX/OpenGL games), so i think there's no difference between Win and Wine. ;-)

[Demonic Spoon]

So I decided to uninstall and reinstall the game to see if it would fix some werd errors I was getting, however after uninstalling it I noticed that the folder was still thre with some piture folder or whateve in it. In a sudden burst of inspired idiocy I decided to delete it. And now when I instll the game again hese folders are not insalled as well an I get alt of errors because of missing pictures. Help?