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[CT]

Just wondering here, but how do I send a geological ground servey team?

[Metalax]

Just wondering here, but how do I send a geological ground servey team?

Either create a colony on the body you want to survey and go to the teams tab, select the colony, select geosurvey team from the list and create the team there to teleport the officers to the body. Alternatively create the team on earth and use a ship using the pickup team and drop off team orders to move the team around.

[CT]

Will they just do their own thing after I drop them off or what?

[Tarran]

Yes. Just wait, they'll eventually find some resources.

[Flying Dice]

Make sure to start them off on moons and planetoids with a gravity of >0.1g, as they will eventually declare that they can't find any more resources and will stop working on that body. Keep training the team until at least 140 total bonus before you send them to useful worlds, preferably more than 200.

You need the gravity to be >0.1g because the lower the total mass of the body, the longer they take to survey it, as there are generally fewer minerals. IOW don't train them on asteroids or very low gravity moons.

[Sowelu]

Always make your missile fire control range significanty higher than your expected engagement range (ie, higher than your missile range). Enemy ECM reduces your missile FC range, so I was very sad when my 30mkm active sensors, 30mkm missile range and 30mkm missile fire control range were only able to engage at 25mkm!  If my missile fire control had been 45mkm for a single extra hull space, I would have been fine.

[Flying Dice]

Or just overengineer everything to such a degree that you can target and hit an enemy ship with ECM-9 at 1.2b km with 100% accuracy.

[Metalax]

Or install ECCM modules on your ship and link them to your firecontrol.

[Crustypeanut]

Whats a good simple, low tech PDC design? Just something to start off with.  I haven't met any enemies yet, but I'd rather have some PDCs on my homeworld just in case.

[Ehndras]

Whats a good simple, low tech PDC design? Just something to start off with.  I haven't met any enemies yet, but I'd rather have some PDCs on my homeworld just in case.

Simple. Tons of dual/quad turrets for point-defense, and the longest range missiles you have. You want something that can strike from afar, yet has close-range weapons to bat away any missiles that come for you or Earth.

[LoSboccacc]

also, put sensor on separate pdc with waaaay more armor. npr loves to fire on actives sensors.

[ThtblovesDF]

Switch the game to basic 2d top down view with just a handful of pretty placeholder graphics (let users make those, based on picked ship class?), make a easy "what you see is what you get" building menu (Drag new engine into design window, click the + button 8 times, repeat with fuel, pay attention to red box that says "NEED XXX" and so on)

Then move on to weapon display window, drag-drop defensive weapons (Anti missle-missle lauchers) into green (defense area - will always first fire to destroy enemy incoming weapons) and attack weapons into red (always used for attack).

Control in auto-ticks you can speed up, right click a place to attack it/move, double right click to fire all weapons (including defence weapons) at the target...

Bam, somewhat user friendly game.

[LoSboccacc]

...red box that says "NEED XXX" ...
... defensive weapons into green .... attack into red

and bam! instant seizure.

btw, I like the 'excel in space' look and feel.

[Metalax]

Whats a good simple, low tech PDC design? Just something to start off with.  I haven't met any enemies yet, but I'd rather have some PDCs on my homeworld just in case.

Simple. Tons of dual/quad turrets for point-defense, and the longest range missiles you have. You want something that can strike from afar, yet has close-range weapons to bat away any missiles that come for you or Earth.

Only use the turrets if you are using mesons. Other beam weapons don't work through atmosphere.

A good early design is 20 size 6 launchers with 5 firecontrols at resolution 50 loaded with anti ship missiles and 60 size 1 launchers with 20 resolution 1 firecontrols. Add magazines to give you at least 40 reloads per launcher. Put a resolution 1 active sensor that matches/exceeds your resolution 1 firecontrol range as a backup in case your sensor pdc gets destroyed. Put at least 10 layers of armour on your pdc, more if it does not make it too expensive. Remember that you can design pdc only launchers that have a faster fire rate.

Build in addition a pdc with maximum size active sensors at resolutions 1, 50, 100 and 500. Put the maximum 100 layers of armour on this pdc as it will be the thing that most enemies will see and shoot at. This PDC will allow your FAC's and fighters to operate near earth without needing their own sensors freeing up space which is particularly valuable at low tech levels.

[ThtblovesDF]

...red box that says "NEED XXX" ...
... defensive weapons into green .... attack into red

and bam! instant seizure.

btw, I like the 'excel in space' look and feel.

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