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[Sheb]

Should be noted that large active sensors tends to draw enemy fire. You'll have to balance the space savings of having less active sensors that ships in your Task Groups with the risk that your task group can be more easily blinded.

Also, you can get around without active sensors by making missiles with sensors and shooting them at waypoints near the enemy.

[Mini]

What exactly happens when I release a colony as its own independent empire? Is there a bad side to it other than no taxes from that colony's population? I currently have a 0.4 million pop colony on Vesta (an asteroid. Founded the colony there as a way to play around with the underground infrastructure thing) and once that asteroid is mined out, I don't want to have to mess with it anymore due to the constant complaints from my inability to build enough underground infrastructure to accomodate the growing population. I'm assuming that what could happen is that the newly independent empire would, least worringly, "steal" my potential mining colonies or at worse, if it were strong enough (which I heavily doubt considering it's only got 400,000 people), declare war on me.

It becomes a new player controlled race, so it'll do whatever you tell it to.

[coleslaw35]

What exactly happens when I release a colony as its own independent empire? Is there a bad side to it other than no taxes from that colony's population? I currently have a 0.4 million pop colony on Vesta (an asteroid. Founded the colony there as a way to play around with the underground infrastructure thing) and once that asteroid is mined out, I don't want to have to mess with it anymore due to the constant complaints from my inability to build enough underground infrastructure to accomodate the growing population. I'm assuming that what could happen is that the newly independent empire would, least worringly, "steal" my potential mining colonies or at worse, if it were strong enough (which I heavily doubt considering it's only got 400,000 people), declare war on me.

It becomes a new player controlled race, so it'll do whatever you tell it to.

Does that do anything for me?

[Mini]

It... Makes the population have its own empire? What exactly do you want/not understand about that?

[Sheb]

You can have several "player controlled Empire", and you can switch from one to the other at any time. That's how Steve manages his massive games with 10+ Empires on Earth. It's not possible to create a NPC from a player Empire because the AI cannot manage everything that is in the game, and it would create issue if a NPC had stuff it couldn't manage (carrier-based fighters until recently couldn't be used by NPCs for example).

[coleslaw35]

It... Makes the population have its own empire? What exactly do you want/not understand about that?

I'm not sure how to word what I want to say!

You can have several "player controlled Empire", and you can switch from one to the other at any time. That's how Steve manages his massive games with 10+ Empires on Earth. It's not possible to create a NPC from a player Empire because the AI cannot manage everything that is in the game, and it would create issue if a NPC had stuff it couldn't manage (carrier-based fighters until recently couldn't be used by NPCs for example).

Ah, okay. Thanks.

[Girlinhat]

For a more practical answer - it doesn't provide any mechanical benefit.  You gain nothing for having multiple empires.  If anything, you just sacrifice taxes.

[coleslaw35]

How does a ship commander's rank influence his ability to command a ship? Is there a downside to assigning a simple, lowly lieutenant commander in charge of a, for example, 300 crew cargo ship? What if I assigned the same lieutenant commander to a 300 crew warship? I understand that the lieutenant commander is less skilled than, say, a commander, and would be less effective in combat, but besides warfare is there a downside to assigning lower skilled officers to larger ships? Like, is there a crew limit or something that an officer can command effectively?

[forsaken1111]

Their ranks actually mean almost nothing. You can have exceptionally skilled low-ranking officers serving under mediocre but politically savvy high ranking officer.

Skill is separate from rank, but higher ranked people tend towards more skilled because skills help with promotion

[coleslaw35]

Their ranks actually mean almost nothing. You can have exceptionally skilled low-ranking officers serving under mediocre but politically savvy high ranking officer.

Skill is separate from rank, but higher ranked people tend towards more skilled because skills help with promotion

Interesting. Thanks!

[jocan2003]

So i built a couple fighter that i left in orbit, thinking it wouldnt need maintenance due to the maintenance fac on the ground... well i was wrong and since they were a fighter i didnt include maintenance or engineering bay. I do have a PDC but even with engineering space and maintenance bay they still cannot hold maintenance supplies wich mean i cannot repair my fighter no matter what....

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Forrest class Planetary Fighter Base    30000 tons     292 Crew     2638.5 BP      TCS 600  TH 0  EM 0
Armour 14-86     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control 10     PPV 30
Annual Failure Rate: 4%    IFR: 0.1%    Maintenance Supplies 0 SP
Parasite Capacity 5000 tons     Troop Capacity: 5 Battalions    Magazine 1050   Flight Crew Berths 108   

Fuel Capacity 50 000 Litres    Range 0.0 billion km   (0 days at full power)
CIWS-200 (5x4)    Range 1000 km     TS: 20000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Size 5 Missile Launcher 30s (5)    Missile Size 5    Rate of Fire 30
Size 1 Missile Launcher (5)    Missile Size 1    Rate of Fire 10
Missile Fire Control FC6-R1 (1)     Range 6.7m km    Resolution 1
Missile Fire Control FC67-R100 (1)     Range 67.2m km    Resolution 100
Sidewinder 5 MkII Anti-ship Missile (170)  Speed: 22 400 km/s   End: 19.4m    Range: 26.1m km   WH: 3    Size: 5    TH: 268 / 161 / 80
Mosquito MkII Anti-missile Missile (200)  Speed: 28 000 km/s   End: 2.3m    Range: 3.9m km   WH: 1    Size: 1    TH: 205 / 123 / 61

Active Search Sensor MR11-R1 (1)     GPS 140     Range 11.2m km     Resolution 1
Active Search Sensor MR112-R100 (1)     GPS 14000     Range 112.0m km     Resolution 100

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This ship is classed as a Planetary Defence Centre

I do have maintenance bay but cannot install engineering bay. Now i have a deadweight fighter wich cannot do anything, and if they see a fight and some manage to survive... well wont be fixable unless i bring a hanguar ship and micro manage the fighter transfer and all that...

[XhAPPYSLApX]

I actually started playing this game not too long ago, like a week or so. Watched a guy named quill18's let's play of it.

I really like the game in terms of sheer emergent gameplay.

But I would also classify it as boringly amazing. Not that that makes the game bad or anything like that, but it really does get boring every once in a while.

Really great when something awesome is happening though. Like building your own facking space station! Moments like that are pretty cool I have to admit.

[coleslaw35]

Is the only way to transport minerals between systems through the use of cargo ships?

[forsaken1111]

Is the only way to transport minerals between systems through the use of cargo ships?

put jump tenders at the jump points or build jump gates. You can tell the cargo ships to transit the points then. Or just build jump capable cargo ships

[Flying Dice]

The answer is yes. Mass driver mineral packets can't pass through JPs.