Re: More newbie stuff
 

I've never tried to open a warp point, so I don't know how to calculate distance on the galaxy map... Puke? Sounds like you have experience with it - any suggestions?

Re: More newbie stuff
 

Determining Distances when creating wormholes:

1. Select a ship with a wormhole creator
2. Press the stellar manipulation button (looks like a star) on the top panel.

It then shows you a galactic map and lets you click on the system to which you want to create the wormhole.

On the right, there is a checkbox which says: Show Distances. After you check this box, the map will show you the distance between your ship and whichever system you move the cursor over.

Hope that helps.

Re: More newbie stuff
 

Thanks raynor. Sounds like good old trial and error depending on the size of the galaxy chosen. Seems like starfaring races should be able to calculate distances from the start of the game and take the guesswork out of it. Maybe MM will add that at some point.

Guess I'll also find out if the hole is permanent and whether it is two way or one way when I create one.

Elmo

[This message has been edited by Elmo (edited 25 January 2001).]

Re: More newbie stuff
 

i dont have the game infront of me, but (i know, this will suck) with the grid that everyone hates, you should be able to come up with a rough idea of how far things are.

unfortuneatly, there is no way to get the map that shows warp point distances untill you have a component built. then you can calc it between any two systems. the only other place you have a map close to that is in the 'border' window. i dont think it shows distances, but like i said, i dont have the game infront of me right now.

hope that helps. now all those years you spent in high school can be put to use figuring out the line distance between systems on the grid. if you could zoom the map window, you could put it on a 21 inch monitor to get a better measurement http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I am now merrily making and removing warp points. And I built a special ship with which I am having all sorts of evil fun. It's got a warp creator, a warp remover, a cloak, and a repair bay. It creates a warp point to my enemies' systems, an attack fleet follows it through, whereupon my ship closes the warp point so the bad guys can't retaliate against me. The ship then cloaks and repairs its own components while the attack fleet rains plague bombs on my enemies. When they are sufficiently chastised the special ship creates a warp point, everybody goes home, and I close off my enemies once again. I have wiped out two rival empires without ever fighting a ship-to-ship battle.