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[Tarran]

Far as I can tell, the civilians won't send colonists to world that don't already have a population.

I've definitely had civilians drop people off on planets that can support colonists without me starting a population. All it needs is the ability to support life somehow, and an existing colony.

[Shooer]

Yeah civ ships don't even need people to already be there to start moving in colonists.  I've been moving up teraforming fleets and one of them is a orbitable hab that gives room for them to start crowding people onto the planet when it is still 6+ cost with out any infrastructure.

[EuchreJack]

Thanks for clearing that up.  That is what I love about this game: So much new stuff to discover.

[RedKing]

To be specific, it needs excess colonist capacity (either 0 colonization cost, or enough infrastructure to support more colonists) and it needs colonist demand (i.e. installations that need workers like mines, factories, research labs, etc.)

Automines don't take workers, so a pure automining colony won't get colonists. The lack of demand is why even if you discover a pefectly inhabitable world, placing a colony won't start generating colonizer runs -- nobody's going to move without a job waiting for them (and no, the agricultural and service sectors don't count).

What's interesting is when you have a partially habitable planet with some installations and some infrastructure on it. They'll bring colonists till the capacity is filled up, then the freighters will be shipping in infrastructure until there's capacity again.

[Flying Dice]

IIRC the requested protection level draws from the system, not orbit. So as long as you have ships in Sol at all Mars shouldn't be giving you problems. As for the first, obviously no as there hasn't been an update in quite a long time. 

[Metalax]

have they fixed the bug where setting a place to have a stable population or being a source of colonists would be reverted as soon as you did the next time increment, if the population of a planet was below the threshold to automatically become a source of colonists?

That's not a bug, it is intended behaviour. You can only change from being a destination once you pass the 25 million threshhold.

[wsoxfan]

Hi all-
How can you do multi-nation starts on Earth?

[Aboth Ber]

Hi all-
How can you do multi-nation starts on Earth?

Press F9 (Empire --> System Information). Select Earth (or whatever panet that you like) and cick Create Empire (make sure your in SM Mode) in lower right panels.
Then you can modify the starting Empire parameter, and spesies (make sure the spesies is human if you want to multi-nation start).
That how I create most of my multi-nation start and the current LP...

Just a warning though, don't make too much Empire or you will suffer the universe heat death (time increments goes super slow since each empire trying to 'sensor' check the other empires during time increments) except you got Computer with superfast processor....

[wsoxfan]

Hi all-
How can you do multi-nation starts on Earth?

Press F9 (Empire --> System Information). Select Earth (or whatever panet that you like) and cick Create Empire (make sure your in SM Mode) in lower right panels.
Then you can modify the starting Empire parameter, and spesies (make sure the spesies is human if you want to multi-nation start).
That how I create most of my multi-nation start and the current LP...

Just a warning though, don't make too much Empire or you will suffer the universe heat death (time increments goes super slow since each empire trying to 'sensor' check the other empires during time increments) except you got Computer with superfast processor....

Thanks

[RedKing]

You'll also have to SM the diplomatic relations periodically, otherwise all the nations will be at war in short order because they'll all claim Sol and see the other nations as intruders.

[kingfisher1112]

Looking forward to 6.00.

[Drakale]

I'm trying to build a cheap flak frigate , would this design work against missiles when massed in good numbers?

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Jubilee Prototype class Flak Frigate    1,000 tons     77 Crew     164 BP      TCS 20  TH 88  EM 0
4400 km/s     Armour 2-8     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 7.66
Maint Life 11.23 Years     MSP 102    AFR 8%    IFR 0.1%    1YR 1    5YR 22    Max Repair 44 MSP

Dash IV - Overcharged (1)    Power 88    Fuel Use 96%    Signature 88    Armour 0    Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 55,000 Litres    Range 103.1 billion km   (271 days at full power)

Triple Vulcan - Micro Turret (2x6)    Range 20,000km     TS: 12000 km/s     Power 0-0     RM 2    ROF 5        1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flak Control MkI (1)    Max Range: 24,000 km   TS: 12000 km/s     58 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

CatEye-50 (1)     GPS 16     Range 960k km    Resolution 1

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

My worry is that the limited range would render it useless against faster missiles. The accuracy should be pretty bad (the base Micro-Vulcan is 17% hit so it's about 8% to hit in the best of conditions), but the sheer number of rounds should give a pretty good coverage. 10 of those should fire around 120 round/5 sec, so would a figure of 5 missiles on average shot down in final fire mode be realist?

[Karlito]

Active sensor is a little small. You'll probably want one with a longer range so you can get a larger tracking bonus against any missiles. Is 12k the best you can do on tracking speed? Missiles tend to be faster than that.

Also:

I'm glad I never posted that 4-gauss turret fac, that would have caused you a heart attack 

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

[Drakale]

Yeah this is pretty low tech and my beam control speed won't go higher for a while. I designed faster turrets, but without fast beam tracker it's useless so I scrapped that design. The active sensor is a backup if my dedicated sensor ship is kaput, but I might up it a bit anyway, it was originally designed for recon fighters so it's really small.

[Flying Dice]

Range is always going to be useless for gauss PD. You don't need to worry about anything but tracking speed, as you'll always be using them in the Final Defense (or w/e) mode, not the interception envelope. The only thing you'll intercept at range with those would be missiles moving at <2,400 km/s, which is slower than most capital ships.