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[forsaken1111]

Restart humanity with the refuelling colony. Win the game. Be awesome.

Now I want to do this. Agh!

[USEC_OFFICER]

Any good designs for a starting player?

You don’t mention what you’re looking for, but here’s some basic designs that I use in my games, which use tech that you more or less start off with:

Missile Cruiser

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Illustrious class Missile Cruiser    11,900 tons     745 Crew     1640.62 BP      TCS 238  TH 660  EM 0
2773 km/s     Armour 10-46     Shields 0-0     Sensors 8/8/0/0     Damage Control Rating 28     PPV 49.5
Annual Failure Rate: 40%    IFR: 0.6%    Maint Capacity 2413 MSP    Max Repair 48 MSP    Est Time: 15.27 Years
Magazine 304   

Ion Engine E6 (11)    Power 60    Fuel Use 60%    Signature 60    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 300,000 Litres    Range 75.6 billion km   (315 days at full power)

Size 3 Missile Launcher (33% Reduction) (50)    Missile Size 3    Rate of Fire 600
Missile Fire Control FC30-R45 (2)     Range 30.9m km    Resolution 45
Lightning Size 3 Anti-ship Missile 30m (100)  Speed: 20,000 km/s   End: 25m    Range: 30m km   WH: 5    Size: 3    TH: 140 / 84 / 42

Active Search Sensor MR38-R100 (1)     GPS 4800     Range 38.4m km    Resolution 100
Thermal Sensor TH1-8 (1)     Sensitivity 8     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  8m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-8 (1)     Sensitivity 8     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  8m km

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes


Scout / Geo Survey Ship

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Bright Eye class Jump Scout    3,750 tons     365 Crew     639.6 BP      TCS 75  TH 300  EM 0
4000 km/s    JR 3-50     Armour 1-21     Shields 0-0     Sensors 6/6/2/0     Damage Control Rating 6     PPV 0
Annual Failure Rate: 18%    IFR: 0.3%    Maint Capacity 640 MSP    Max Repair 100 MSP    Est Time: 7.77 Years

J3750(3-50) Military Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 3750 tons    Distance 50k km     Squadron Size 3
Ion Engine E8 (5)    Power 60    Fuel Use 80%    Signature 60    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 500,000 Litres    Range 300.0 billion km   (868 days at full power)

Thermal Sensor TH1-6 (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  6m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-6 (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  6m km
Gravitational Survey Sensors (2)   2 Survey Points Per Hour

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes


Missile PDC

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Overlord class Planetary Defense Centre    19,650 tons     271 Crew     2127.64 BP      TCS 393  TH 0  EM 0
Armour 24-64     Sensors 1/48     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 99
Troop Capacity: 1 Battalion    Magazine 608   

PDC Size 3 Missile Launcher (33% Reduction) (100)    Missile Size 3    Rate of Fire 300
Missile Fire Control FC30-R45 (1)     Range 30.9m km    Resolution 45
Thunder Size 3 Anti-ship Missile 30m (100)  Speed: 20,000 km/s   End: 25m    Range: 30m km   WH: 4    Size: 3    TH: 140 / 84 / 42

Active Search Sensor MR38-R100 (1)     GPS 4800     Range 38.4m km    Resolution 100

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Planetary Defence Centre and can be pre-fabricated in 8 sections

GeoSurvey Ship

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Plainsman class Geosurvey Ship    7,450 tons     214 Crew     501.2 BP      TCS 149  TH 750  EM 0
5033 km/s     Armour 1-33     Shields 0-0     Sensors 6/6/0/2     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 0
Maint Capacity 42 MSP    Max Repair 100 MSP

Ion Engine E0.8 (5)    Power 150    Fuel Use 8%    Signature 150    Armour 0    Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 150,000 Litres    Range 453.0 billion km   (1041 days at full power)

Thermal Sensor TH1-6 (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  6m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-6 (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  6m km
Geological Survey Sensors (2)   2 Survey Points Per Hour

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes


Freighter

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SuperTrans class Freighter    64,350 tons     364 Crew     734.8 BP      TCS 1287  TH 1500  EM 0
1165 km/s     Armour 1-143     Shields 0-0     Sensors 6/6/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 0
Maint Capacity 7 MSP    Max Repair 38 MSP
Cargo 50000    Cargo Handling Multiplier 10   

Ion Engine E0.8 (10)    Power 150    Fuel Use 8%    Signature 150    Armour 0    Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 150,000 Litres    Range 52.4 billion km   (520 days at full power)

Thermal Sensor TH1-6 (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  6m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-6 (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  6m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes


Most of my other commercial ships (colony ships, terraformers, jump gate constructors) are just built off the freighter hull. If you design them correctly (I'm not certain what exactly the conditions are,) you can use one commercial shipyard to build all of them without refitting.

Thanks. I'll keep these in mind while I'm designing ships.

Also, fun ahoy. I've built my first jump gate to Alpha Centari. A couple minutes after I arrive, some unknown alien ships get blown up by nuclear blasts.

And of course, I accidentally retooled my military spaceport to my geological ship. So while I'm waiting for the retooling to finish, I'm left with three crappy defence ships and no way to built more.

Lovely.

[Tarran]

Hmmm, I suggest you just stay back in Sol... wait a few tens of years until your fleet is ready. Don't let them know that you're there.

[USEC_OFFICER]

That's what I'm going to do.

EDIT: Jesus Christ. Whoever is on Alpha Centurai A-II has a megaton of nukes. Over 1000 explosions and counting.

[Earthquake Damage]

a megaton of nukes

I wonder now how many missiles that would be.

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Lessee...  20 MSPs to 1 HS (check the missile design screen, or calculate it from values given in the magazine design screen).  1 HS = 50 tons.  So...

1 Mton / 50 ton = 20,000 size 20 missiles = 20,000 x 20 = 400,000 MSPs of missiles

I don't recall ever seeing the AI use any more than a size 12, but let's assume they use anything up to Conventional ICBM size (24).  That means they'd have at least 16,666 missiles.

Wow.  And that's if they're all big ones.

[USEC_OFFICER]

If it helps, the AI seems to be mostly using 1, 6, 7, 8 size missiles.

[Greenbane]

As I posted on the Aurora forums (I'm Shadow there), my current game can't seem to get past a specific construction cycle.

I had a good thing going on. Steve's personal assistance is my last hope...

[Korbac]

Everybody thinks your nobody important... If this were fight club, you'd be Edward Norton...

Anyhows, just trying this out! 

EDIT : Already I have no idea how to obtain engines.

[The Scout]

You scan a jump point and then put a warp gate there?

[Tarran]

EDIT : Already I have no idea how to obtain engines.

Open the Create Research Project window (Ctrl+F6), design a engine, then research it the same way you would other things. Tadah, you can now put engines on your ship designs, or build them from planetary factories.

You scan a jump point and then put a warp gate there?

...Huh?

[The Scout]

Jump gates. How do I use them?

[Tarran]

Jump gates. How do I use them?

Uhhh... Travel to them and jump. Any ship should be able to do it with a Jump Gate on a Jump Point, even if they don't have jump engines. Just remember that Jump gates are only built on one side of the Jump Point at a time.

[The Scout]

And now I'm stuck in some barren system with no way to get my view back to Sol.

[Tarran]

And now I'm stuck in some barren system with no way to get my view back to Sol.

That's why you put jump engines on ships you expect to jump into systems without Jump Gates.

[The Scout]

And now I'm stuck in some barren system with no way to get my view back to Sol.

That's why you put jump engines on ships you expect to jump into systems without Jump Gates.

I had my other ship come in and build another gate,my view is just stuck their.