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[Flying Dice]

I've had no difficulty, once I got it installed properly. One thing is, I don't even run it as an administrator. I'm not really very familiar with the pre-gameplay issues people have, as I never encountered them myself. 

[MarcAFK]

I ran a savescum "combat simulation" on the precursors i found in ross 254 in order to discover what problems my current batch of ships have, discovered some flaws in my strategy and designs, and encountered a few odd things.
Firstly my shields seemed totally useless, despite many missiles hitting the test ship for 8 damage, taking huge chunks from the armour my shields just continued charging, not taking or absorbing any damage (they were up to 5 strength by the time i finished off the precursors), do shields not work untill they have fully charged? I seem to recall in the last version having shields taking hits with only fractional remaining power.
Also half my fleet had not enough crew space, but seemed to function fine, does undersized crew space merely affect combat effectiveness, thereby causing problems when a crew quarter is destroyed by missiles, but otherwise not really being much of a problem?

[Flying Dice]

1. Shields should always contribute as much blocking potential as possible.

2. It should be outright impossible to build a design that has any of the grey design errors, including lack of crew space, unless you're talking about battle damage, in which case IDK, but I'd assume that it doesn't affect anything.

However, I'm still on the previous version so things might have changed. On another note, you should start charging shields pretty much as soon as you know there are enemy ships in-system, as uncharged shields are a waste of tonnage, and charged ones don't drain much fuel.

[MarcAFK]

I might be wrong about the crew, it seems fine now and i don't remember fixing that class.

[Flying Dice]

I've finally completed the last of what I need for formal 1st and 2nd Divisions, excepting a second modern Major General to lead the 2nd Division.


Also, just got my first wave of jump capable survey ships out there, and oh boy but am I grinning. Also have already picked up 4 new JPs in two of the systems, so I'll pop into those to check for hostiles then maybe post a galmap tomorrow. 

[Areyar]

You do know that looking makes them appear, right?

Aurora's NPCs are like Schrodinger's cat.
(excepting the ones that are created at game start, 1 by default)

...But you are probably looking for a fight, given your completed fleet.

[Flying Dice]

Oh, yes, I know. But my characters and empire don't.   


Besides, a little side dish of mutual xenocide goes well with the giant slice of roast called extrasolar expansionism.

[Scout1]

I'm sure this has already been asked somewhere (not that I could find it), but how do I unfuck the galactic map? I found 3 jump points in the Sol system and in the galactic map they're all squished one on top of each other, hugging Sol as close as they possibly can.

[Tarran]

Shift-click to move them.

Select the Sys Pos (System Position) box in the top-left and select Save Positions to... well, save the current positions of the systems.

[Scout1]

Shift-click to move them.

Select the Sys Pos (System Position) box in the top-left and select Save Positions to... well, save the current positions of the systems.

Lovely, thank you.

[Flying Dice]

So I've found a number of great worlds within the first ring of JPs, and I'm thinking about a long term turtle strategy. In that vein, I'm sketching out rough designs for future ships and stations, and I was wondering if anyone with experience with fuel harvesters could answer a few questions. Namely:

1. Is it better to build them with an OH module (allowing them to be produced with industry) or without (saving on tonnage)?

2. Is it better to build them as self-reliant platforms (a few engines, etc. to allow them to self-propel) or use tugs to ferry them around?

[ThtblovesDF]

IŽd say built them with engines... after all, stars move and... why not take advantage of the fuel you have.

[Metalax]

I'd set them up as platforms as they are going to be stationary almost the entire time. It also means you practically never need to update or refit the design as none of the modules on a refining platform aside from possibly the armour will ever need to be updated.

I tend to build them with shipyards rather than putting a superfluous habitat module on them and building with industry as I usually have better things for my industry to be building, and I frequently have a civilian shipyard that would produce colony ships/freighters idle once I've created my small number of government freighters/colony ships, that can be retooled to produce them without impacting other construction..

[forsaken1111]

Has anyone found a successful strategy to automate fuel harvesting and recovery from a gas giant? One that they have tested and which works without any input? I generally made my fuel harvesters goddamn huge complexes which stored several million liters of fuel and just manually sent a tanker fleet once a year to recover it but even that gets tedious.

[Areyar]

I think there are special standing orders for that...No that wouldn't help,
tankers would just go to the nearest source of fuel, probably the place they just dumped their cargo at and refuel there.
fuel just needs some micromanagement.

In any case you do need to set your skymine as a tanker.
The best automation I see is setting a tanker(-fleet) to a cycling route, but set the speed of it so, that the amount of fuel transported is equal or lower than the fuel produced.