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[Cerej]

That fighter can't actually shoot at anything.  Aurora doesn't allow weapons with a range of less than 10,000km to fire.

[Crustypeanut]

Are you sure? o.O if so.. damnit XD


Also, another question, if I design a commercial geological survey vessel, will civilians build any?

[Dutchling]

Like it matters. I doubt that fighter can get close enough without getting shredded by AMMs. Although I've never even fired at an enemy vessel so my advice is purely theoretical .

fakeedit; And yes you cannot fire 5k km. Civilians will build something if it:
-is commercial
-is not obsolete
-can move cargo, colonists or passengers.

So no, they won't.

[Girlinhat]

Wait, what?  What's the purpose of having 5k range weapons possible if they don't actually do anything?

[Metalax]

They will still fire in final defensive fire mode against incoming missiles.

[Crustypeanut]

*Sigh* These fighters aren't meant for point defence, so they're useless

Time to start over, since I've botched this game up.  XD

[LoSboccacc]

also, if you are following with a fighter an escaping ship, even if you are faster, you will be behind the enemy at each turn as you follow up before he had moved (probably initiative comes into factor).

I know because I tried one the swarm of close quarter gauss fighter and got cheap on range. and well, it went very badly 

[Metalax]

Yes, what you need to do is set your initiative higher so that you move after he does.

[Areyar]

Won't a ship/fighter that closes to pointblank range fire <10,000 weapons then?
Also, where do I find the kamikaze button? :p

[Metalax]

Unless it has been changed and I missed it, you can't execute ramming attacks yourself even though some NPR's will do so.

[Girlinhat]

Steve hasn't included player ramming as he feels it would be overpowered.  Which it would.  Spam armor+engine+passive thermal and just bludgeon through everything.  That's the dwarven way.

[Areyar]

I got this philosophy that I should mainly specialize in the techs my best scientists have bonusses for.
Unfortunately they always seem to be fascinated by logistics and engines.
I've been wanting to roleplay a Prador/Dwarf Empire, maybe I should just SM in the researchers I want. :/

[Girlinhat]

RP-focused campaigns tend to SM in a bit to streamline the process.  If you want to RP that you're a race of soldiers, but you keep getting genetics scientists, time to fudge it just a little to make it playable.

[Areyar]

Or gengineer supersoldiers...

[Girlinhat]

That'd be logistics/ground tactics.  Biology is purely for colonizing hostile worlds - your civilians.