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[revo]

Do I put automated mines on moons to mine them? I'm about 2 years away from running out of resources on earth and need to find some metal sources fast!

[Karlito]

Oh hey, does anyone know if I can scuttle a missile that's currently in flight?

If you've fired it from a ship with active sensors, then you can shut off the actives and the missile will loose guidance and self-destruct.  If the missile has its own guidance system, then it will stop wherever it is and float there until a target comes nearby, at which point it will chase.  If it runs out of fuel, it explodes.

Or you can simply cause the missile to selfdestruct via the combat overview window(F8). Select the missiles in flight tab, select the offending missile, and hit destroy.

Thanks, I knew that window was somewhere.

[Girlinhat]

Do I put automated mines on moons to mine them? I'm about 2 years away from running out of resources on earth and need to find some metal sources fast!

You have three choices for minerals.
1: A mine requires... 10k population to run?  This must be supported via infrastructure on planets that are not 0.0
2: Auto-mines work the same as a mine, but require no population, and are more expensive to produce.
3: Asteroid Mining Modules are as powerful as a mine or auto-mine, and are installed on a ship.  They will harvest resources off any body with minerals and a colony.  They're made ideally to deal with small asteroids with small resources, letting the ship hop from one to another to drain the whole field quicker than cargo ships could move the regular mines.

[Rince Wind]

Of course, you need to find new minerals first. It does not help to put the (auto)mines on moons and hope for the best.

[Flying Dice]

Do I put automated mines on moons to mine them? I'm about 2 years away from running out of resources on earth and need to find some metal sources fast!

You have three choices for minerals.
1: A mine requires... 10k population to run?  This must be supported via infrastructure on planets that are not 0.0
2: Auto-mines work the same as a mine, but require no population, and are more expensive to produce.
3: Asteroid Mining Modules are as powerful as a mine or auto-mine, and are installed on a ship.  They will harvest resources off any body with minerals and a colony.  They're made ideally to deal with small asteroids with small resources, letting the ship hop from one to another to drain the whole field quicker than cargo ships could move the regular mines.

To clarify: Asteroid miners will not mine minerals on planets. Hence the name.

[revo]

how often do mass drivers "shoot"? would 2 be enough to support 80 or so automines?

[Rince Wind]

Each massdriver can deliver up to 5000t each year and it can catch an infinite amount.
So it really depends on how accessible your minerals are.

[Girlinhat]

To clarify: Asteroid miners will not mine minerals on planets. Hence the name.

Are you very certain of this?

[darkrider2]

To clarify: Asteroid miners will not mine minerals on planets. Hence the name.

Are you very certain of this?

They won't I tried using them on a planet. Honestly, asteroids kinda suck unless you get that one with like a ton of one mineral, or find a system with comets and just go nuts.

[revo]

So I finally got Ion tech engines and I'm about to start producing a cruiser to jump with  my jump ships.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fox class Cruiser    7,450 tons     740 Crew     1036.2 BP      TCS 149  TH 600  EM 0
4026 km/s     Armour 4-33     Shields 0-0     Sensors 10/10/0/0     Damage Control Rating 6     PPV 31.7
Maint Life 6.68 Years     MSP 522    AFR 74%    IFR 1%    1YR 20    5YR 304    Max Repair 44 MSP

Ion Engine E7 (10)    Power 60    Fuel Use 70%    Signature 60    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 350,000 Litres    Range 120.8 billion km   (347 days at full power)

Twin 10cm PD N.U.V. Turret (2x2)    Range 90,000km     TS: 15000 km/s     Power 6-6     RM 3    ROF 5        3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 0
15cm C3 Near Ultraviolet Laser (2)    Range 180,000km     TS: 4026 km/s     Power 6-3     RM 3    ROF 10        6 6 6 4 3 3 2 2 2 1
15cm Railgun V2/C3 (1x4)    Range 60,000km     TS: 4026 km/s     Power 9-3     RM 2    ROF 15        3 3 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Fire Control: anti-missle point defense v1 (1)    Max Range: 48,000 km   TS: 12000 km/s     79 58 38 17 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S04 96-3000 (2)    Max Range: 192,000 km   TS: 3000 km/s     95 90 84 79 74 69 64 58 53 48
Pebble Bed Reactor Technology PB-1 (6)     Total Power Output 18    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR0-R1 (1)     GPS 10     Range 500k km    Resolution 1
Active Search Sensor MR7-R20 (1)     GPS 640     Range 7.2m km    Resolution 20
Active Search Sensor MR10-R100 (1)     GPS 2000     Range 10.0m km    Resolution 100
Thermal Sensor TH2-10 (1)     Sensitivity 10     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  10m km
EM Detection Sensor EM2-10 (1)     Sensitivity 10     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  10m km

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

critiques?

I'm not 100% sure on how sensors and fire control work so those might be wrong. It need to be under 7500 tons so I'm good there. Should I start thinking about making a small jump gate constructor?


oh and my wealth is plummeting like crazy! how do I fix it?

[peskyninja]

So I finally got Ion tech engines and I'm about to start producing a cruiser to jump with  my jump ships.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fox class Cruiser    7,450 tons     740 Crew     1036.2 BP      TCS 149  TH 600  EM 0
4026 km/s     Armour 4-33     Shields 0-0     Sensors 10/10/0/0     Damage Control Rating 6     PPV 31.7
Maint Life 6.68 Years     MSP 522    AFR 74%    IFR 1%    1YR 20    5YR 304    Max Repair 44 MSP

Ion Engine E7 (10)    Power 60    Fuel Use 70%    Signature 60    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 350,000 Litres    Range 120.8 billion km   (347 days at full power)

Twin 10cm PD N.U.V. Turret (2x2)    Range 90,000km     TS: 15000 km/s     Power 6-6     RM 3    ROF 5        3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 0
15cm C3 Near Ultraviolet Laser (2)    Range 180,000km     TS: 4026 km/s     Power 6-3     RM 3    ROF 10        6 6 6 4 3 3 2 2 2 1
15cm Railgun V2/C3 (1x4)    Range 60,000km     TS: 4026 km/s     Power 9-3     RM 2    ROF 15        3 3 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Fire Control: anti-missle point defense v1 (1)    Max Range: 48,000 km   TS: 12000 km/s     79 58 38 17 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S04 96-3000 (2)    Max Range: 192,000 km   TS: 3000 km/s     95 90 84 79 74 69 64 58 53 48
Pebble Bed Reactor Technology PB-1 (6)     Total Power Output 18    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR0-R1 (1)     GPS 10     Range 500k km    Resolution 1
Active Search Sensor MR7-R20 (1)     GPS 640     Range 7.2m km    Resolution 20
Active Search Sensor MR10-R100 (1)     GPS 2000     Range 10.0m km    Resolution 100
Thermal Sensor TH2-10 (1)     Sensitivity 10     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  10m km
EM Detection Sensor EM2-10 (1)     Sensitivity 10     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  10m km

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

critiques?

I'm not 100% sure on how sensors and fire control work so those might be wrong. It need to be under 7500 tons so I'm good there. Should I start thinking about making a small jump gate constructor?


oh and my wealth is plummeting like crazy! how do I fix it?

Trading. Any colony with 10 million or more will start trading using commercial lines. (Ctrl+lto open the commercial lines menu)
And civilian mining colonies, I have no idea of how they are created but they will appear with time.

Guys is anyone else getting an nullstring and other errors (3315 and 3201) when trying to create an NPR? (Or when entering a system and the game tries to make one)

[Karlito]

critiques?

Your weapons have a higher tracking speed than your FC allow. If you don't want to (or can't) make them bigger so they have more tracking speed, you should at least design a smaller PD turret that tracks at 12k km/s.
The active sensors are a bit on the small side, they'll do for targeting just fine, but you might have trouble spotting targets in system (10m km is not even 1/10 the distance the earth is from the sun). You might want to consider designing a Sensor ship that has larger active and passive sensors but no weapons.
I don't really see why you're mixing railguns and lasers, you're probably better off just sticking to one or the other.
You can afford to lose some engineering space. Military ships will spend most of their time in orbit around a planet, so they don't need to be quite that durable. I try and aim for a Maintenance Life of 2 years.

[lastverb]

@revo:
Some questions you have to ask yourself:
Why do You use another active sensor just for additional 2.8m coverage? Best way to deal with it would be getting rid of it and using sensor ship with a bigger one.
Do You really need two main-weapon targetting computers for this little weaponry? You won't be attacking single enemy with one laser anyway.
What are You gaining by putting two types of what seems to act as main-weapon? Changing that railgun for another laser is not a bad idea. Or maybe go for railguns and design smaller targetting computer for that?
Wouldn't lowest tech PD lasers be enough? It decreases cost and difference between 10k and 90k doesn't give you anything (you are using them in point-blank).

[Flying Dice]

To clarify: Asteroid miners will not mine minerals on planets. Hence the name.

Are you very certain of this?

They won't I tried using them on a planet. Honestly, asteroids kinda suck unless you get that one with like a ton of one mineral, or find a system with comets and just go nuts.

Which is why civilians are great. They'll happily drop mining colonies on every little hunk of rock, so you can let them do the work and buy up the minerals.

Re: The ship:

1. Not enough power to charge all weapons simultaneously.
2. Mixing primary E/KW armament is a waste of research; it's generally best to pick a branch and stick with it.
3. You're not going to see much with the AS, though it will do okay for targeting.
4. As mentioned, there's a degree of inefficiency with the turrets and FC.
5. You don't need to include an EM sensor on a ship with an active sensor; there's an EM sensor build into the AS as the 'listening' part of it.

[Karlito]

Oh hey everyone, 6.10 is out. Bugfixes galore!

You don't need to include an EM sensor on a ship with an active sensor; there's an EM sensor build into the AS as the 'listening' part of it.

Really? I didn't think active sensors will hear your enemy's active sensors or detect their shield strength.