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[Girlinhat]

I might do that for a dedicated Mining fleet, get all sorts of mining personnel in the fleet.

[uberlalzar]

I guess my tiny square monitor just defies troubleshooting thanks for trying though.

Are you trying to play it on an iPad or one of those tiny little mini-netbooks? I can run it fine on 1024x768.

No it just seems like Resize enable is not intended for what i need it to do which is make everything inside the window smaller while leaving the window the same size.

[Metalax]

Can I get a rundown of the whole frigate/cruiser/destroyer/corvette/dreadnought/etc role/size thing please? I can't find it anywhere.

As the others have said there is no fixed size to a classification. These are the sizes I typically use, although this is from the pre-6.0 game so I may need to revise them a bit now(my destroyers seem to be running at 10k tons now for example).

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FTR   Fighter         [250 ton]
FTR-H   Heavy Fighter      [500 ton]
 GB   Gunboat         [1k ton] - FAC engine
COR   Corvette      [1k-4k ton]
 FR   Frigate         [5k ton] - Defensive/special purpose
 DE   Destroyer      [5k ton] - Offensive
 CR-L   Light Cruiser      [10k ton]
 CR   Cruiser         [15k ton]
 CR-H   Heavy Cruiser      [20k ton]
 CR-B   Battlecruiser      [25k ton]
 BS   Battleship      [30k ton]
 DR-L   Light Dreadnaught   [40k ton]
 DR   Dreadnaught      [60k ton]
 DR-H   Heavy Dreadnaught   [80k ton]
 DR-S   Super Dreadnaught   [100k ton]
MON   Monitor         [150k ton]
MON-H   Heavy Monitor      [200k ton]
MON-S   Super Monitor      [250k ton]
COL   Colossus      [500k ton]
TTN   Titan         [750k ton]
LVN   Leviathan      [1000k ton]

Fighter wings are generally 10, 250 ton Fighters or 5, 500 ton Heavy Fighters

 CA-L   Light Carrier      [10k ton]   - 1 wing
 CA   Carrier         [30k ton]   - 3 wings
 CA-H   Heavy Carrier      [80k ton]   - 8 wings
 CA-S   Super Carrier      [200k ton]   - 20 wings
BCA   Battle Carrier      [20k ton]   - 1 wing - extra space goes to weapons/defences.
BCA-H   Heavy Battle Carrier   [60k ton]   - 3 wings - extra space goes to weapons/defences.

Use of taskforces is very much up to your play style.

I'll typically run several taskforces, as I usually have far more officers than I know what to do with.

1 survey taskforce, just the commander + survey officer, accompanies the survey swarm.

1 "Training" taskforce. Commander + Operations with the best crew training scores I have. Pretty much all ships cycle through here upon construction.

1 taskforce for each colonised system. Commander, Operations, Logistics, Intelligence and Fighter Ops if any small craft are in use. Any freighters/tankers that will be operating primarily in-system get assigned to this along with the system defence forces.

1 "Contact" taskforce if I'm attempting any peaceful contacts. Commander, Intelligence, Communication and Public Affairs.

1 taskforce for each battle fleet. Every position except survey is filled.

As pretty much every ship of Heavy Cruiser size and up carries a flag bridge, it is easy to form new taskforces if you split off ships from a larger force to operate on their own in a different system.

[revo]

My Daiku class jump ship/ sensor ship I never noticed it had such a high AFR before now lol. It's meant to go on explorations with military cruisers into unexplored jump points hence its amount of armor.

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Daiku MKIII class Jump Ship    12,250 tons     878 Crew     2716 BP      TCS 245  TH 420  EM 0
1714 km/s    JR 4-100     Armour 9-47     Shields 0-0     Sensors 10/100/1/1     Damage Control Rating 2     PPV 0
Maint Life 0.08 Years     MSP 277    AFR 600%    IFR 8.3%    1YR 3470    5YR 52049    Max Repair 1190 MSP

J12000(4-100) Military Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 12000 tons    Distance 100k km     Squadron Size 4
Ion Engine E7 (7)    Power 60    Fuel Use 70%    Signature 60    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres    Range 10.5 billion km   (70 days at full power)

Active Search Sensor MR214-R80 (1)     GPS 38400     Range 214.7m km    Resolution 80
Thermal Sensor TH2-10 (1)     Sensitivity 10     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  10m km
EM Detection Sensor EM20-100 (1)     Sensitivity 100     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  100m km
Gravitational Survey Sensors (1)   1 Survey Points Per Hour
Geological Survey Sensors (1)   1 Survey Points Per Hour

[Metalax]

Why such lopsided passive sensor sizes? If anything I'd lopside it towards the thermal sensors if not using equal sensors. Your EM can only pick up ships with switched on actives/shields or colonies, while the thermal can pick up anything with a thermal signature, pretty much everything except engineless ships/ships set to zero speed.

I'd honestly put the geo survey sensor on a seperate commercial engined ship. Use the saved space for some engineering spaces. As it is when something significant breaks you will have to go back to a shipyard for repairs as you can't fit enough maintainance supplies on the ship at once to fix it. Strip one layer of armour off if you need to, to make space.

[revo]

Why such lopsided passive sensor sizes? If anything I'd lopside it towards the thermal sensors if not using equal sensors. Your EM can only pick up ships with switched on actives/shields or colonies, while the thermal can pick up anything with a thermal signature, pretty much everything except engineless ships/ships set to zero speed.

I'd honestly put the geo survey sensor on a seperate commercial engined ship. Use the saved space for some engineering spaces. As it is when something significant breaks you will have to go back to a shipyard for repairs as you can't fit enough maintainance supplies on the ship at once to fix it. Strip one layer of armour off if you need to, to make space.

I have base sensor tech except for actives. I just threw them on there for the tonnage. I think I might take your advice before producing another one. Sensors are tech the I have been lacking in upgrading and i've been focusing more on propulsion and research speed.

[revo]

Is there anyway you can order subordinate TGs to follow the orders of the Main TG?

[Metalax]

As far as I know, no there is no way to copy the main taskgroups orders over to it's subordinates.

[PTTG??]

Fighters should be military vessels? What's the fire control error, the fact that you don't have one? I think, with the removal of fighter engines, fighters are just any ship under 500 tons.

Indeed and you no longer need to have an engine on it for it to be classified as a fighter. This makes your fighter factories able to turn out defence sattelites with a single turret or a stack of box launchers by the hundreds.

Excellent! This is just what I was looking for last game. Make fuel tanks the size of fighters, with the minimum crew. Load this onto a carrier or just tractor it onto a ship, then discard it when empty. Tadah! Infinite range!

Alternatively, use tugs to make a chain of tanks and your fighters can top off to move along the line, crisscrossing the system at top speed.

[Girlinhat]

I'm not sure how well that'd work, really.  For the size you use in hangar space, you could just as easy use in fuel storage.  Ejecting a fighter doesn't change your ship weight, so you get no speed benefit from discarding an empty fuel-fighter.  It even taxes your system because you have to afford crew berth for that minimal crew.

I'd more likely make a fuel booster, as seen on modern shuttles.  Make a ship with a small, efficient engine, large fuel tank, and long crew duration.  Optionally stealth device.  Give it a tractor beam, and hook it onto the bigger ship.  Fly about, distributing fuel as needed, and when it gets low, you just give it enough fuel to fly home, and then detach the tractor.  Fly the big ship on as normal, and send the nearly-empty fuel booster back to a resupply base for refueling.

[Metalax]

One thing to note, fighter factories can build any design that is 500 tons or under, including comercial designs even if they don't specifically say that they are classed as a fighter.

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Victory class Fuel Pod    500 tons     5 Crew     98.5 BP      TCS 10  TH 0  EM 0
1 km/s     Armour 1-5     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 0
MSP 123    Max Repair 5 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Spare Berths 1   

Fuel Capacity 385,000 Litres    Range N/A

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This can freely be built at fighter factories.

[Gidoran]

One thing to note, fighter factories can build any design that is 500 tons or under, including comercial designs even if they don't specifically say that they are classed as a fighter.

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Victory class Fuel Pod    500 tons     5 Crew     98.5 BP      TCS 10  TH 0  EM 0
1 km/s     Armour 1-5     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 0
MSP 123    Max Repair 5 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Spare Berths 1   

Fuel Capacity 385,000 Litres    Range N/A

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This can freely be built at fighter factories.

Okay, that is a cool discovery. I'm going to have to steal that for use in my campaigns. If nothing else, it means you can dump a carrier's wing into a ground hangar and use it as a fuel transporter when it's not needed for operations. Especially since one can stick 'commercial' style engines on a carrier now and get great fuel endurance. Or use it with tiny, high efficiency tugs.

[Metalax]

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Castilla class Fuel Pod    1,000 tons     15 Crew     195 BP      TCS 20  TH 0  EM 0
1 km/s     Armour 1-8     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 0
MSP 122    Max Repair 100 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Spare Berths 2   
Tractor Beam     

Fuel Capacity 335,000 Litres    Range N/A

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This one does require building in a shipyard, but it can use the same yard your gunboats are going to be using. 50k less fuel, but self-adhesive. (Note for when coming out of a conventional start, Tractor beams have cargo handling module as a prerequisite)

[Bronimin]

Could anyone care to explain how to load missiles into magazines? after fiddling around with it for a while, I can't seem to get it.

[Karlito]

The best way is to assign a default missile load-out in the ship design screen (F5) under the "ordnance" tab. When ships are first constructed they'll draw missiles from the colony to try and fill their default load-out. When you assign a task group to "load ordnance from colony" they'll try to fill their default load-out.

If you don't assign a default load-out, you will have to load every ship manually from the ship screen (F6). It's also under an "ordnance" tab.