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[Ehndras]

Distance to Sol jump point: 3.36b km. Yeah, running isn't going to be an option, even if I scatter and reduce emissions. Knife range it is.

I stand by eagerly to hear of your success. May the gates of Valhalla lay open upon your arrival, and Odin smile upon you.

Most of them were missile ships, they hit me with missiles that were fast enough to cross my entire PD envelope in <5 seconds. I tried manually targetting them with my 20cm lasers, but with 7% chance TH, that wasn't nearly enough. A glorious death, and a lesson on why I should have turtled in Sol until I got a Missile/Kinetics researcher (even though I've been waiting close to 30 years.  )

Get 5 military academies. If the ridiculous number of new recruits doesn't include one, give up and restart cause you're doomed :p

[RedKing]

I dunno...I've got 8 academies in my main ongoing game (Military Dictatorship + 1bil pop start) and yet my best Logistics guy is a 40%/5 labs guy.

After nearly 50 years.

[Tarran]

Look on the bright side, those 5 labs are extremely efficient. That means more labs for other jobs.

[RedKing]

Look on the bright side, those 5 labs are extremely efficient. That means more labs for other jobs.

Yeah, but I usually have those labs tied up by my 30%/25 Propulsion tech, or my 50%/25 Missile/Kinetics guy. In most cases, 5 more labs admin rating is better than 5% better research ability -- IF you have the labs to accomadate them.

[Bremen]

Distance to Sol jump point: 3.36b km. Yeah, running isn't going to be an option, even if I scatter and reduce emissions. Knife range it is.

I stand by eagerly to hear of your success. May the gates of Valhalla lay open upon your arrival, and Odin smile upon you.

Most of them were missile ships, they hit me with missiles that were fast enough to cross my entire PD envelope in <5 seconds. I tried manually targetting them with my 20cm lasers, but with 7% chance TH, that wasn't nearly enough. A glorious death, and a lesson on why I should have turtled in Sol until I got a Missile/Kinetics researcher (even though I've been waiting close to 30 years.  )

If missiles are crossing your PD range in one round, it's usually best to set guns to final defensive fire. Not only will that guarantee you get a shot off, but you can set the fire range to 10,000 km (minimum for FDF) to get the best accuracy.

[Flying Dice]

Distance to Sol jump point: 3.36b km. Yeah, running isn't going to be an option, even if I scatter and reduce emissions. Knife range it is.

I stand by eagerly to hear of your success. May the gates of Valhalla lay open upon your arrival, and Odin smile upon you.

Most of them were missile ships, they hit me with missiles that were fast enough to cross my entire PD envelope in <5 seconds. I tried manually targetting them with my 20cm lasers, but with 7% chance TH, that wasn't nearly enough. A glorious death, and a lesson on why I should have turtled in Sol until I got a Missile/Kinetics researcher (even though I've been waiting close to 30 years.  )

If missiles are crossing your PD range in one round, it's usually best to set guns to final defensive fire. Not only will that guarantee you get a shot off, but you can set the fire range to 10,000 km (minimum for FDF) to get the best accuracy.

Damn it, I'm so used to playing my old game where I've got absurd levels of technology that I had completely forgotten about that. Well, time to see if that does any good for the two survivors as they run for the point.

The thing that ticks me off the most about the lack of Missiles/Kinetics researchers is that the rest of them are a great spread: 50%/45 EW; 40%/35 L/GC; 35%/10 C&P; 30%/20 P&P; 25%/20 DefSys; 15%/30 FC; assorted lower ones spread across the fields. 

Spoiler: \)^3^(/ (click to show/hide)

The 1st Cruiser TG, the main Solar defense force, was dispached through the Alpha Centauri gate. As there is no gate, and no jump tenders capable of transporting a warship of that size, they are trapped in-system. Travelling to recover the life pods from the 2nd and 3rd Frigate Squadrons, they encountered the same fleet of alien warships. Shortly thereafter, they came under attack from large waves of AMMs, each composed of three launches of 33, 33, and 26 missiles. The total observed number of waves was greater than 50.



Thankfully, the Warhammer class cruisers, although lacking in point defense range and tracking speed, have much thicker armor, as well as primitive shields. Roughly 2/3 of each wave was shot down, the remainder impacted to little effect. When the final wave had struck home, the Warhammer and Biter had both sustained minor damage, and two other ships had armor damage. Three ships, two of the same class, departed from their fleet to the secondary, indicating that those three ships were responsible for the massive volume of fire. It comes down to the six unharmed or lightly damaged cruisers against six unknown alien vessels, representing four classes, divided into 2, 2, 1, and 1. One of the classes with a pair of ships have the only detected active sensors in the enemy fleet. On an individual basis, our cruisers have a 3-1 tonnage advantage against the three larger, and a 5-1 advantage against the smaller, giving us a total tonnage advantage of 4-1. However, the enemy clearly has much more advanced technology [robot bastards probably have particle beams  ], and the outcome is uncertain. Regardless, we will prevail, rescue the survivors of our previous expedition, and crush the foe into dust with our interstellar jackboots.

HAH. Their sensor ships had decent railguns, but I popped each of them with a single salvo, and the rest are armed with 40k range Gauss cannons. I'm not the one running now, am I?

What most of my combat reports looked like:


This one was notable because it had enough armor to not be killed outright.

[CT]

well, if you use your starting free ship build point for a geosurvey, a colony ship and a freighter you can start colonize from turn 0 instead that from year 2

to colonize, there is a button from the system screen (f9) but you can just drop anything on a planet and it become a colony.

mars has a low colony cost, so you can bring there 500 infrastructure, population, terraformers, and mines. but that's a bit more work, you should have started with 80 automines so...

queue 2 mass driver on earth.

open the f12 windows, with your cargo group set an order to pick up automated mines on earth and then drop all installations on mars. click the cycle orders check.

now wait til your mass drivers are ready and all the mines are in place. now bring one mass driver (same way you moved the mines) using the 'maximum amount to load' set to 1. remember to remove the cycle orders or you'll find all the mass drivers on mars!!

now go to mars. you should see the auto mines auto mining, and with the mass drier the target dropdown should contain available destinations. set the driver to fire minerals at earth.

done!

now, for population: build 500 or so infrastructure at earth. same way as above, bring it all to mars.

open the colonization task group, the special order tab. there should be a primary order and secondary order.

set the primary to be 'load colonist at 25m+' and the secondary to be 'unload colonist <25m'

this will bring automatically people from populated planets to unpopulated ones, up to 25 million people.

now, for terraforming: build 5 terraforming installation (I use ship, but let's keep this basic)
bring them to mars, the same way as you brought other stuff.

now on the f2 screen, open the environment tab.

configure it as follow: selected gas: oxygen, add gas to atmosphere, 0.1 and click save atm

congrats, you're terraforming!

now open the f4 screen. select leader type: civilian administrator. pick one with high terraforming or high mining. select mars. click assign on the low right corner.

and now you're a pro! 

Would creating a mining colony on an asteroid work the same way?

[Metalax]

yes, apart from there is no need to ship infrastructure or colonists there as it will be uninhabitable.

[Sowelu]

I've been told that, if a ship is on active sensors when it goes through a JP, it will reveal that JP instantly.  Is that true?  'Cause I usually never run from a fight because of that...

Spoiler: Swarm (click to show/hide)

Also, I have Star Swarm in a dead-end system here, and I keep seeing wrecks pop up out of nowhere.  Pretty sure nothing else lives here.  Weird.  (I'm guessing this is a kind of breeding process, and I'm going to get reamed in a couple decades...)

[Flying Dice]

I've been told that, if a ship is on active sensors when it goes through a JP, it will reveal that JP instantly.  Is that true?  'Cause I usually never run from a fight because of that...

Spoiler: Swarm (click to show/hide)

Also, I have Star Swarm in a dead-end system here, and I keep seeing wrecks pop up out of nowhere.  Pretty sure nothing else lives here.  Weird.  (I'm guessing this is a kind of breeding process, and I'm going to get reamed in a couple decades...)

IIRC they assimilate asteroids and moons(?) by turning them into wrecks, which their workers can then salvage.

[Tarran]

Huh, really? Do you have a quote from anywhere? Not that I don't believe you, I'm just curious.

[Flying Dice]

Huh, really? Do you have a quote from anywhere? Not that I don't believe you, I'm just curious.

I vaguely recall reading it, either somewhere way back in this thread, or in the official forums. No idea where the quote would be, but it came to mind, and I don't know of any other way, unless you've got a hidden point in that system and an NPR keeps dumping ships in, which seems unlikely, unless you've been getting lots of unexplainable slowdown.


Fakeedit: Actually, I'm not certain, but I think that might have come up in one of Steve's AAR campaigns. The NATO/Soviet one, if I recall correctly. If it wasn't that, then I honestly have no idea.

[Ashery]

Distance to Sol jump point: 3.36b km. Yeah, running isn't going to be an option, even if I scatter and reduce emissions. Knife range it is.

I stand by eagerly to hear of your success. May the gates of Valhalla lay open upon your arrival, and Odin smile upon you.

Most of them were missile ships, they hit me with missiles that were fast enough to cross my entire PD envelope in <5 seconds. I tried manually targetting them with my 20cm lasers, but with 7% chance TH, that wasn't nearly enough. A glorious death, and a lesson on why I should have turtled in Sol until I got a Missile/Kinetics researcher (even though I've been waiting close to 30 years.  )

If missiles are crossing your PD range in one round, it's usually best to set guns to final defensive fire. Not only will that guarantee you get a shot off, but you can set the fire range to 10,000 km (minimum for FDF) to get the best accuracy.

If I'm recalling correctly, missiles that impact immediately/within five seconds after being fired are incapable of being shot done due to the sequence of play preventing sensors from detecting them before impact.

On the topic of colonizing other planets, realize that the civilians on Earth will be generating an obscene amount of infrastructure as a trade good that you do not have direct access to. Civilian shipping lines, however, will ship that infrastructure around and actually generate a modest profit for your empire in the process. Once the trade good is dropped off on the colony, it'll become the standard infrastructure that you can transport around directly. For that reason, you don't really need to drop off and, more importantly, construct 500 infrastructure to drop off on a new colony. You only really need enough space to accommodate a single colony ship.

[Flying Dice]

Distance to Sol jump point: 3.36b km. Yeah, running isn't going to be an option, even if I scatter and reduce emissions. Knife range it is.

I stand by eagerly to hear of your success. May the gates of Valhalla lay open upon your arrival, and Odin smile upon you.

Most of them were missile ships, they hit me with missiles that were fast enough to cross my entire PD envelope in <5 seconds. I tried manually targetting them with my 20cm lasers, but with 7% chance TH, that wasn't nearly enough. A glorious death, and a lesson on why I should have turtled in Sol until I got a Missile/Kinetics researcher (even though I've been waiting close to 30 years.  )

If missiles are crossing your PD range in one round, it's usually best to set guns to final defensive fire. Not only will that guarantee you get a shot off, but you can set the fire range to 10,000 km (minimum for FDF) to get the best accuracy.

If I'm recalling correctly, missiles that impact immediately/within five seconds after being fired are incapable of being shot done due to the sequence of play preventing sensors from detecting them before impact.

No, Bremen is right. Setting them to the last ditch response automatically intercedes, regardless of respective velocities and tracking speed. Basically, it is you ordering your ships to fire all weapons in the direction of the missiles at the last possible moment without trying to track them beforehand for accurate shots, whereas the area defense allows your ships to target individual missiles at longer ranges.


Also, managed to take that fight, wiped the missile ships on the way back out, and cleaned up the bases and minefields. Meanwhile, I inherited four transports, and typically the one full of HAs is stuck deep in a system that is still full of hostile precursors. It has enough CIWS to shut down pretty much everything missile-based, so I'm crossing my fingers in the hopes that they don't have kinetics or EW...

[Metalax]

Huh, really? Do you have a quote from anywhere? Not that I don't believe you, I'm just curious.

heres one of steves posts that details the starspawn lifecycle
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,1931.msg21460.html#msg21460