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[Rince Wind]

Actually Engineers are in Brigades and need 5 Troop Transport Bays.

[Metalax]

Don't bother putting replacement battalions in brigades, that is just wasting the oppotunity to train a real battalion. Just have them accompany a full brigade on their own. As I normally build transports to carry a full brigade of troops/engineer brigade, then you need five transports to carry a full division so use the four free slots on the transport carrying the divisional hq to bring along four replacement battalions.

[Duuvian]

Interesting Module Design

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Yes, this one is an official exploit

I'll probably add some code to prevent ships being able to use hyperdrive while towing.

Steve

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That's a 1000-ton Hyperdrive FAC towing a 16,000-ton Heavy Cruiser at 55,470 kps!

You have to be really careful about just how you issue the orders, though, because you cannot issue "Enter Hyperdrive" orders to a fleet that contains non-Hyperdrive ships. That option doesn't appear on the orders menu. You need to first move the task group into position outside the Hyperlimit, then detach the Hyper-FAC into a seperate task group, then give it a series of queued orders: "Tractor specified ship", "Enter Hyperdrive", and "Move to..."

It does, however, work very well. Fifteen hours to Pluto.

Don't bother putting replacement battalions in brigades, that is just wasting the oppotunity to train a real battalion. Just have them accompany a full brigade on their own. As I normally build transports to carry a full brigade of troops/engineer brigade, then you need five transports to carry a full division so use the four free slots on the transport carrying the divisional hq to bring along four replacement battalions.

Thanks, so having better quality replacement battalions has no effect? Their statistics improve like a normal battalion, and they are so much cheaper to train.

[ThtblovesDF]

Module design is amazing! That noone thought of that before, here comes the fun train!

[Metalax]

It goes further. You can hook modules up as a train, just make sure that the last module has no tractor beam on it.

[Areyar]

Why not?
!! You could tractor them into a circle and the universe would implode !!

[Metalax]

It's due to the way steve originally disabled tractor chains and the way around it.

[MarcAFK]

Quote from that other thread someone mentioned "There's a bigger bug that that, hidden in the same code. I can use a Hyper-capable tug to boost a load into Hyperdrive, then detach the tug and send it over to grab the next load... while the original load continues moving in Hyperdrive, despite having only normal (non-Hyper) engines."
I gotta try exploiting this next time i find a big binary system.

[Areyar]

That makes me consider:
It would be cool if (normal) engines could be overtaxed, just like in the books. . .
or rather: run at less than 100% for a boost to maintenance.

[RedKing]

Yes, build a ship with a tractor beam. Tractored ships are removed from their current taskgroup and placed in that of the towing ship. As that task group belongs to you, so does the ship you just requisitioned from the civilians. 

I had no idea you could do this. Now I must build a "tug police" ship.
"Sir, do you know how slow you were going?"
"I know officer, but this ship is 70 years old and still uses nuclear therm engines."
"I'm afraid I'm going to have to impound the vessel. Follow me."


Now here's a question...can you tractor alien freighters/colony ships?

[RedKing]

Yes, build a ship with a tractor beam. Tractored ships are removed from their current taskgroup and placed in that of the towing ship. As that task group belongs to you, so does the ship you just requisitioned from the civilians. 

I had no idea you could do this. Now I must build a "tug police" ship.
"Sir, do you know how slow you were going?"
"I know officer, but this ship is 70 years old and still uses nuclear therm engines."
"I'm afraid I'm going to have to impound the vessel. Follow me."


Now here's a question...can you tractor alien freighters/colony ships?

probably. it probably also causes them to get REALLY pissy with you.

Only one way to find out...

Depends a lot on whether Steve intended it to work that way, or if it's just an 'undocumented feature'.

[Flying Dice]

Actually, I rather like the fluff behind the idea of going pirate and tractoring foreign shipping. It sounds like one of those features that really is a feature, rather than a "feature".

[PTTG??]

Is there a way to order a ship to be scrapped at a shipyard? Or do I have to self-destruct it and then salvage it?

[forsaken1111]

Is there a way to order a ship to be scrapped at a shipyard? Or do I have to self-destruct it and then salvage it?

Scrapping is a shipyard task. Fly the ship to the location with the shipyard and you can choose scrap from the shipyard task interface from the dropdown.

[pjwaffle]

This game sounds really fun but I can't seem to figure out how to play...

Can someone PM me - I want a mentor over teamviewer or something.