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[Flying Dice]

I tend to develop the ones which have the best combination of amount and accessibility of minerals, alongside the ones with the lowest time needed to terraform to 0.00. You're going to have roughly the same amount of civilian activity regardless of the distribution of your colonies. One thing, you should probably go ahead and plant a seed of 200ish infrastructure and 0.25m or so people on every 2.00 or less cost world, which both creates stuff for your civvies to do, and ensures that you'll have multiple well-populated colonies by the time you can afford to start shipping out installations. One thing to keep an eye on is your homeworld population, as large periods of colonization (especially if the civs go wild) can drop you below your ideal level of workers, which screws up all of your R&D, production, and shipbuilding rates. If you aren't actively producing missiles or fighters, you can deactivate those industries to create more workforce for other sectors, but keep in mind that you'll need 180 days to get them running again.

One thing you can do if you're strapped for minerals is to concentrate on colonizing a few inner worlds, but plant automining/asteroid miner colonies in outer systems, so you're still getting that mineral flow, but without the investment in actual colonization. Another trick is to colonize worlds that had ruins which have been completely exploited, as that will give you a small starting core of useful installations.

[Jay]

Another trick is to colonize worlds that had ruins which have been completely exploited, as that will give you a small starting core of useful installations.

Or large, depending.
(My most recent ruin has 785 installations.)

[BishopX]

My nearest unexploited ruin is at the end of the chain...and it has 8 structures. Dropping the infrastructure is a really good idea, doing that now.

[forsaken1111]

One thing to keep an eye on is your homeworld population, as large periods of colonization (especially if the civs go wild) can drop you below your ideal level of workers, which screws up all of your R&D, production, and shipbuilding rates.

Believe you can set your homeworld to not be a source of colonists if you get too low to be comfortable so the civs won't pull people from it.

[Flying Dice]

One thing to keep an eye on is your homeworld population, as large periods of colonization (especially if the civs go wild) can drop you below your ideal level of workers, which screws up all of your R&D, production, and shipbuilding rates.

Believe you can set your homeworld to not be a source of colonists if you get too low to be comfortable so the civs won't pull people from it.

Yeah, but for some reason that menu seems to not always save the changes you make.

[Tarran]

It works fine for me.

[lavenders2]

Time to continue my video tutorial series, and the next episode is all about ship design and research and how bad I am at both those things. It is 37ish minutes long, so tomorrow this episode will be up ready to watch. It is poorly explained in my opinion, but perhaps others will think different...

[Scout1]

What are the formulae for deep space tracking stations, passive EM sensors, and passive thermal sensors?

[Flying Dice]

If you're wondering about how they calculate sensor strength, DSTS are (Sensor strength tech)*(# of DSTS), and thermal and EM passives are (Sensor sensitivity tech)*(Sensor size), with the range base being the range at which it can detect a STR-1000 contact, with the range scaling based on the strength of given contact. So a sensitivity-14, size 1 passive could detect a STR-1000 contact at 14m km, or (sensitivity 14)*(size 1) or 14*1, whereas a sensitivity 14, size 15 passive could detect a STR-1000 contact at 210m km, or (sensitivity 14)*(size 15), or 14*15.

In other words, the default naming code for passives indicates their size and the range at which they can detect a STR-1000 contact; a Thermal Sensor TH2-28 is size-2 (or 100 tons), has a total sensitivity of 28, and can detect a STR-1000 contact at 28m km.

[EuchreJack]

It would appear the miltary jump engines can move both commericial and military ships.  I accidentally sent my commerical geosurvey ship to another system with only my military jumpship, and it worked fine.

I'm not sure if there is any restrictions on commerical jump engines, but the military jump engine seems to be universal.

[Karlito]

I'm not sure if there is any restrictions on commerical jump engines, but the military jump engine seems to be universal.

Commercial jump engines will only jump ships with commercial engines. They'll work on military ships, I believe, but only if that ship has military engines (so they'd work on a freighter with a large sensor, for example).

[Jay]

I'm not sure if there is any restrictions on commerical jump engines, but the military jump engine seems to be universal.

Commercial jump engines will only jump ships with commercial engines. They'll work on military ships, I believe, but only if that ship has military engines (so they'd work on a freighter with a large sensor, for example).

Not quite -- commercial jumpships will work for any ship, period -- however, commercial jumpships cannot squadron transit, and as such will cause problems (see: jump sickness) in actual military situations.

[EuchreJack]

Squadron transit?
Jump sickness?

[LostCosmonaut]

When you jump into a system, it takes a while before your sensors and fire controls become operational again. This is generally a bad thing if there is a crapton of enemy ships camped at the jump point. Squadron transit helps to reduce this downtime.

[Metalax]

Squadron transit?
Jump sickness?

Whenever a ship jumps it is effected by "jump sickness", all of it's sensors, ECM, firecontrols, shields etc are disabled for a period of time. This is what makes a jump assault dangerous as you cannot respond to the defenders of the far side of the point. High levels of crew training significantly reduce the duration of the whiteout.

There are two ways of jumping, standard transit, which represents the jumpship jumping back and forth to transit all the ships of a taskgroup, and squadron transit that is intended for jumping into unknown/hostile situations, where the jumpship only transports up to it's squadron rating of ships. Standard transit has a much longer duration jump sickness effect.