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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">OMG! Now how the Hell did I do that! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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I checked, and he used something like 4000 + turns in the Last 24 hours.

Atrocities has played this game for a couple of years. He knows how to rack up the points.

I would suggest that you do as he does, and sit on your turns for a while, get your hull size up to 25 and then create a ton of planets, say twenty or so, then spend your turns and money setting the colonist level between ten and twenty five million.

(I am thinking about giving everyone a turn bonus of 2500 turns except for Atrocities and myself who have had more turns and game time. Let me know if you would like this.)

[ February 08, 2003, 19:07: Message edited by: CNCRaymond ]

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Nodachi's Tip of the Day: Once you've got a nice little empire quit buying colonists. Watch for your planets approaching 100,000,000 population and use those to seed new worlds. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Not sure what you're talking about. When you click on the "login" button, you can enter your email/password, or you can click on links like "FAQ" or "Game Settings" at the bottom. What were you talking about?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You should only be able to see FAQ not the settings. But if anyone is interested, here are the current game settings.

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You can view the Game Settings on the login screen.

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Hum, I hadn't noticed that. On my login screen all I have availible is the FAQ. Odd, but good. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This would be nice but whatever you decide is fine.

I have 24 planets and 1M in colonists. I'm going to take my next few hundred turns and seed those worlds up to alot more.

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I found it. Thanks. I never really looked at the bottom of the LOGIN screen before. Funny how I missed it.

Yes, I will give everyone say for myself and Atrocities a 2500 turn bonus later today.

This should help out a lot of you who are learning the game and those of you who had learned at a great cost.

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CNCRaymond: Nice, different sort of game. Those bonus turns helped http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif I used a bunch earlier today wandering around http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I'm in as Daon Rendiv onboard the Astral-Nox

I offered an alliance to people in alphabeticle order.....

Will finish offers later.

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thank you for those bonus turns. now to make up for the first day i spent using real space instead of warp.

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Are warp links redundant once you get good engines? I can get anywhere in one, maybe two turns so I don't really see the point of warp links any more..

Phoenix-D

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Krsqk are you hacking the web page again? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

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Atrocities, I'm slowly but surely catching up to you! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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Phoenix-D: When I got to where I could go on one turn in "real space" I outfitted ram scoops to pick up energy. Used the energy to both build planet and make extra credits....no need for warping around http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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If anyone likes managing planets, join DSA.
Currently 30 corprate plants and growing every time I remeber to use GTs.

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Come on now, its hard to do this alone, Does ANYONE here like managing planets?

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How the heck does one use a genesis torpedo? for that matter set off fighters as sector defense?

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hit the DEVICES button!

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Roger, finally figgered it out. No need to shout...

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"How the heck does one use a genesis torpedo? for that matter set off fighters as sector defense?"

Oh, and don't forgot fighters in space need energy for maintance. I lost 40000 fighters that way http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Phoenix-D

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">sorry but i have 80 of my own to deal with.

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pity there's no way to launch fighters and mines directly from the planet.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Go to Devices'
Click on Geneisis Device
Voila, you have a planet, 5 max per system

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Extra turns? I haven't gotten any extra turns. You're all against me, aren't you? Aren't you?? Admit it!!!

AGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! WHOOOOOOOP WHOOOOOOP WHOOOOOOP WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

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Ummm, what is up with me being in Sol? I got up this morning and found myself in the Sol sector with a ship that is like the one I started out this game with at first. I thought maybe something happened to me but there is no news stating that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

And I can't even go back to my home system. My fighters start to attack me. What up with this? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

Edit: Ok figured it out. They arn't my fighters. I lost alot of my planets and someone took them. This not good. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
Ahh well, you live and learn. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ February 10, 2003, 15:23: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

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are torpedoes on a planet's surface used for defence? I know fighters are, but do torpedoes have to be deployed or something?

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I think they are only used for defense if someone attacks the planet.

I thought up another question...I had owned the space those planets were in and I had it set to you cannot attack in those systems. Since I did this, then how were they able to attack my planets?

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"Edit: Ok figured it out. They arn't my fighters. I lost alot of my planets and someone took them. This not good."

Who took them?

On a side note, did anyone find it amsuing to read this in the log? :

PLayer's Empire has 5 planets
Player's Empire has 10 planets
Player's Empire has 25 planets
Player was killed in an accident.

Ooops. Invest in escape capsules guys, they aren't just for show. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Phoenix-D

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Yeah, I found that to be rather funny as well.
They took two of my systems. One of the system now belongs to Tesco, and the other Nodachi.

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1. how do you scan your own base to see what it is capable of?
2. i have noticed some systems have statements at the top of the screen how do you put those there?

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Your base is just a way to store more money and to allow you to access your planets production from the PLANETS - CHANGE PRODUCTION window on the upper left hand side.

PLANETS lists all of your planets, and if they have a base, CHANGE PRODUCTION will show them and you can alter your production from that window on all of your planets at the sametime.

Messages at the top of the system are created by using BEACONS in the DEVICE window.

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thanks.

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Also, if you build 3 bases within a system, (one per planet) You gain control of that system and can set the system settings.

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still trying to figure out how to scan planets defensive/offensive capabilities. spent some time scanning others planets and ships and have noticed that the planets have sheilds, fighter and torpedo launchers and beam weapons just like ships. how is this determined? is it based upon population?

edit: for those of you i scanned i am not hostile at this time. just trying to learn more about the game.

[ February 11, 2003, 07:43: Message edited by: desdinova ]

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Your ability to scan is limited by the size of your scanner on your ship. (Ok, keep it clean)

You can have a trillion fighters and torpedo's on a planet. There is a formula for how production of fighters and torps are governed, but as far as I know there is no limit to how many a planet can have.

NOW, fighters deployed as sector defense have to have ENERGY from the planets, or they will reduce in numbers over time.

Scanning a planet is to determine whether or not your ship is capible of taking on that planet. For the most part, you will want a ship that has a huge beam, armor, shield and power setting. Pack in as many fighters and torps as you can, (30 + hull size is good) and you can take on just about any planet. That is unless you do what I did, and try to take one of the WebMasters. Big mistake. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

I spent 5k turns setting up my ship, and attacked one of his planets in sector 499, and was defeated soundly. (Restart)

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scanned webmasters. his ship alone would probably wipe out an entire fleet of star destroyers. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
i understand the scanning part but how does the game determine if a planet has a beam value of say 30 torpedo launcher 15 sheilds 10 etc. do we have the ability to upgrade bases like we do with ships?
also will ships and torps sitting on a planet deploy automatically when the planet is attacked? or do they need to be manually launched?

edit: when i asked about scanning i understand scanning other peoples planets and ships. but how do i find out what my planets capabilities are?

[ February 11, 2003, 08:15: Message edited by: desdinova ]

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Bases can not be upgraded. They are static. They are designed to allow you to gain better control over your planet and system.

Yes, fighters and torps are launched automattically when your planet is attacked.

I think the amount of fightes released is directly equal to the amount of energy the planet has. SO DO NOT RUN LOW. And remember if you have your planet set to ALL TRADE, someone could buy all your energy then attack your planet.

I don't know about how to find out what our own planets are capitable of. I'll have to ask CNC.

You can also email the games creater and ask him. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif (His name is rick something I think. I beleive there is a link to his email on every page.)

[ February 11, 2003, 08:28: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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thanks

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ot: hey atrocities what is your avatar from? i keeping thinking of the coalition government from rifts when i see it.

[ February 11, 2003, 08:41: Message edited by: desdinova ]

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I think the object of the game is to waste our lives away on the web. I can not really find any other reason to play it. Addictive like Planetarion, and Earth 2035, but more pathetic.

Oh I editted my post below too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Ugh, me thinks next go round I'll have to use a different strategy. Me be a bit spread thin http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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if you get tired of peacefully building your empire you always have mankinds other favorite pasttime, WAR. myself i prefer to peacefully build my empire. there are 3000 systems to explore, with 20 people playing the game thats 150 systems each times 5 planets per system gives us each 750 planets to rule. i want to see how many i can control before i go crazy from the amount of management necessary. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
so i would agree with atrocities reasoning for the game.

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So... does it get any better than this? I mean, I haven't progressed very far really, but unless someone finds all my planets and wipes me out, there's nothing much to stop me (eventually) having stacks of 5 planet systems with impenetrable defences and hundreds of millions in the bank... what is there to do then? Or is this whole game just a cleverly devised lesson in the fundamental emptiness of an existence devoted entirely to the accumulation of material wealth?

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Don't forget when the alliances start to fight it out...

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found a star system with 5 planets all showing unclaimed. i am able to capture planets 3,4,5 but not 1 or 2. i get message saying command is not available. why cant i capture these two planets?

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Probably one of mine. I tried a strategy I found on another board- repeated kamakazing defenses- and uh, the Last time I forgot about the escape pod. Kersplat.

Phoenix-D

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i just went to alliance planet list and the two planets i cant capture are part of the alliance i belong to. is it possible that one cannot capture planets that are corporate or part of the alliance one belongs to?
phoenix d these are probably your planets then.

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this game looks like it could be alot of fun, but im thinking it would be better not to get very deep in it. I think im going to have to stop playing.